Outdoor Education


Outdoor Education
 

Your trip to Camp Piomingo will be an exciting hands-on extension of your classroom through the interactive cross-curricular classes and activities.  All classes are planned around the Elementary KY Core Content Standards and provide a fun opportunity to “learn by doing”.  (Please see the School Packages section in the Rental Rates tab for a complete price list.)

Habitats – students discuss the needs of area wildlife to survive and point out examples of food, water, shelter and space while on a nature hike.  Related Core Content Standards include:

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Students will describe cause and effect relationships between enhanced survival/reproductive success and particular biological adaptations (e.g., changes in structures, behaviors, and/or physiology) to generalize about the diversity of populations of organisms.

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Students will understand that all organisms must be able to obtain and use resources, grow, reproduce, and maintain stable internal conditions while living in a constantly changing external environment.

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Students will:

  • describe and categorize populations of organisms according to the function they serve in an ecosystem (e.g., producers, consumers, decomposers);
  • draw conclusions about the effects of changes to populations in an ecosystem.

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Students will understand that a population consists of all individuals of a species that occur together at a given place and time. All populations living together and the physical factors with which they interact compose an ecosystem.

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Students will understand that regulation of an organism’s internal environment involves sensing the internal environment and changing physiological activities to keep conditions within the range required to survive. Maintaining a stable internal environment is essential for an organism’s survival.

Mammals – students will discuss the characteristics that separate mammals from all other types of creatures.  They will also examine real skulls and bones of area animals.  Related Core Content Standards include:

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Students will understand that all organisms are composed of cells, the fundamental unit of life. Most organisms are single cells; other organisms, including plants and animals are multicellular.

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Students will explain that biological change over time accounts for the diversity of species developed through gradual processes over many generations.

Aquatic Biology – students will discuss the importance and value of aquatic systems such as lakes, rivers, streams, ponds and aquatic life.  Related Core Content Standards include:

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Students will:

  • describe the circulation of water (evaporation and condensation) from the surface of the Earth, through the crust, oceans and atmosphere (water cycle);
  • explain how matter is conserved in this cycle.

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Students will explain interactions of water with Earth materials and results of those interactions (e.g., dissolving minerals, moving minerals and gases).

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Students will describe how different factors (e.g. rivers, mountains) influence where human activities were/are located in the United States.

Outdoor Living – students will practice the fundamentals of fire building, shelter construction and/ or outdoor cooking.  Related Core Content Standards include:

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Students will estimate weight, length, perimeter, area, angle measures and time using appropriate units of measurement.

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Students will identify and describe evidence of chemical and physical changes in matter.

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Students will understand that, on its own, heat travels only from higher temperature object/region to lower temperature object or region. Heat will continue to flow in this manner until the objects reach the same temperature. For example, a cup of hot water will continue to cool down until it comes to the same temperature as the surrounding area. Usually when heat is transferred to or from an object, the temperature changes. The temperature increases if heat is added and the temperature decreases if the heat is removed.