Outdoor Activities

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Getting students involved not only through text books, but into the actual outdoors provides a whole new greater learning experience. It provides for hands on experience, along with visual learning. Being physically involved in the environments provides a more in-depth intellectual point of view.

People need to realize how important the environment truly is, therefore letting people experience what nature provides and what they actually have to lose.

Steps:

1. Approve the field trips with the activities coordinator
2. Plan our trip accordingly with the environment we were currently studying
3. Assign a date
4. Create permission slip
5. Enjoy Mother Nature

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The end results of what had occurred on the field trips was beneficial in many ways. On our first field trip we headed down to Clear Creek, in Payson. On our trip we used temperature soil probes to test the moisture content in various depths of the soil. Also we created transects to learn about bio-diversity. On our second field trip we traveled to Tucson on Mount Lemon to learn about the diversities of elevation and what effect they have on the environment surrounding including biomass, such as plant life and soil content. Our last field trip culminated in a delightful bonding experience with nature where we immersed ourselves in the beauty of Mother Nature.