How
will my students participate? Expedition
members will post updates three times per week throughout Project Peru for you
and your students to explore. For examples of the journal entries, photos, videos,
and other content that students will use to learn, visit the Boreal
Forest Project Base Camp, the Wilderness Classroom's last learning adventure. | Students
are also responsible for choosing where expedition members go, what they study,
and how the adventure unfolds. Before, during, and after the expedition, students
will use online polls, email, monitored discussion boards, and chat rooms to interact
directly with expedition members and run the adventure. Each week students will
be given choices, and their decisions will affect their experience as well as
the lives of the expedition members, and the people, plants, and animals encountered
in the flooded forest. |  WCO
Director Eric Frost updating our website during the Big Muddy Adventure, an 80-day
canoeing Learning Adventure down the Mississippi River in 2001. |
For
example, one week students might be asked what the expedition members should do
during the following week. Should they try to document and photograph Pink River
Dolphins, study with a local shaman to learn about medicinal plants, or spend
time with a local family and learn what it is like to grow up in the flooded forest? Students
would then use online polls to vote and tell expedition members what they should
do. The option that receives the most votes wins. If "document and photograph
Pink River Dolphins" receives the most votes, then WCO might ask students
to learn as much as they can about river dolphins and report back to the explorers
so that they know where to look for the dolphins, what the dolphins eat, etc. The
Wilderness Classroom also develops an extensive set of Internet-based, as well
as printed activities, resources, and lesson plans that will make it easy to incorporate
Project Peru into your existing curriculum. Below
are a few examples from previous adventures of the kinds of resources that you
and your students will use during Project Peru. The
Rain Forest Library The
Boreal Forest Library |
