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Bush Camp Education Program
Iganyana Bush Camp Education Program
ACTIVITY AREAS
What Activities Happen Where?
Due to the size of the groups that come to the Bush Camp and the nature of outdoor education, small activity groups are rotated through activity areas. Which activities are conducted at which areas is designed by the Bush Camp Director in advance of any visit, and may change depending on the school, age level of the students and objectives of the schoolteachers.
This document should be considered a work in progress, to be added to and modified continually. Bush Camp faculty should always be designing new activities that are better and better. It is crucial to the successes of the program that activities continue to be designed that are appropriate and relevant to the culture of the local students.
Below is a list of the eight activity areas and the activities that may occur at each. The numbers in parentheses refer to the Educational Theme to which the activity relates.
Conference/Dining Room
Welcome
Student Orientation Group A
Sustainable Use Simulation (10, 11, 14)
Map Activities (12, 14)
STD Charts (13)
Activity Deck
Student Orientation Group B
Wrap Up/Assessment
Role Playing Biogeochemical Cycles (1)
Food Web (2)
Habitat Charades (3)
Video: Elephant (3)
Animal Town Meeting (5, 8, 12)
Video: Rhino Wars (5)
Video: Hunters in Twilight (5, 8, 13)
Population Growth Simulation (6)
Video: Watership Down (8)
Sustainable Use Role Playing (10, 11, 14)
Birth Control Talk/Discussion (12)
Video: People Bomb (12)
Video: Yellow Card (12, 13)
Video: The Lion King (2,3)
Campfire Area
Student Orientation Group C
Transpiration Lab (1,9)
Insect Sweep Netting Survey, part II (5)
My Stick (9)
Night Sensory Perception Activities (9)
STD Stories (13)
Walkway
Natural Community Identification/Characteristics Questioning (3)
- Night Sensory Perception Activities (9)
- Night Walk (9)
- Dog Hunt (9)
Interpretive Centre
Role of Dogs Discovery Sheet (2, 3)
Dog Adaptations Discovery Sheet (4)
Threats to Dogs Discovery Sheet (5)
If Dogs are No More Discovery Sheet (6)
Community Development Questions Sheet (11)
Computer Lab
Create a Food Web (2)
Endangered Species Research/Discovery Project (5)
Extinct Species Research/Discovery Project (6)
EE Exclosure
Transpiration Lab (1,9)
Legume Root Dig/Draw (1)
Niche Questioning (3)
Soil analysis (3)
Ecological Survey (3)
Adaptations Questioning (4)
Tree Identification/Adaptations Activity (4, 6)
Adaptations Scavenger Hunt (4)
Insect Sweep Netting Survey, part I (5, 6)
Grass Density Survey (6)
Tree density Survey (6)
My Tree (9)
Sensory Perception Activities (9)
Game Drive/Night Drive
Niche Questioning (3)
Habitat Questioning (3)
Natural Community Identification/Characteristics Questioning (3)
Game Species Recognition Questioning (4)
Adaptations Questioning (4)
Gaming Area
Predator-Prey Games
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