The Wilderness Classroom
We have a fun year of learning planned and look forward to interacting with your classroom. Dave and Amy take off on the final 5,000 mile leg of their journey across North America on May 9th. Join them this spring as they explore the Great Lakes by kayak (May-June, 2012). When school resumes in the Fall catch up with Dave and Amy as kayak from Maine to Key West (September, 2012 - April, 2013).
We have developed a wide range of worksheets, lesson plans, and other free resources that will help your class participate in the adventure of a lifetime!
Latest News
| How far should we paddle each day? 05/14/2012 Dave is wondering how long we should paddle each day. We need to average about ten miles a day to stay on schedule. If we paddle just 10 miles a day we will save our muscles a little bit, and we would be able to spend some time each day checking out some cool places. Should we do that? Or, should we [ ... ] |
| What do you want to learn about next week? 05/14/2012 Each week we have decisions to make about where to go, what to see and what to study. So, each week we will ask you to help us make some of those decisions. We hope you will vote on the option you like best to help us determine where to go. We can make an instructional video on cooking where we [ ... ] |
| The Greatest Great Lake 05/13/2012 Student Response Worksheet (Upper) Student Response Worksheet (Lower) Lake Superior has been kind to us so far. We began paddling our kayaks on the largest great Lake on Wednesday. The sky has been clear and the wind has been light. After all the time spent preparing and packing, it was a reli [ ... ] |
| A sauna and a dip in Lake Superior 05/12/2012 The team took a sauna and a quick swim in a very cold Lake Superior.Watch this funny video! |
| Leaving Grand Portage: 1 mile down, 4,999 to Key West! 05/12/2012 Dave, Amy, and the team leave Grand Portage and paddle into Canada. |
| Loading our kayaks in Grand Portage. 05/09/2012 The big day has finally arrived. We have been packing food, organizing equipment, and testing our communication technology for the last two weeks. Today all of this hard work is starting to pay off. We will put our kayaks into Lake Superior in a few hours and paddle East. If all goes as plan [ ... ] |




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