Scope of Instruction with Ubuntu Outdoor Education

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Learn how to plan & organize an outdoor experience by yourself. Why are you going? Who's going? Where are you going? What are you going to do? How will you make this happen?

Learn how to develop situational awareness, assess potential risks and hazards of weather, environment and activity; and have ways of responding to them. Risk Management is about being prepared.

Learn about outdoor equipment and how to sustain yourself. Topics covered: Clothing, Equipment & Tools; Water, Fire & Food; Camp organization & logistics; EMS, Transportation.

Cultivate the ability to identify  plants/trees, mammals, birds, fish and geology.  Develop a progressive nature based awareness of the small things that are always there. 

What to know before you go. Topics covered: Environmental Zones, Trip Planning & Preparation, Location & Route Planning, Navigation, Nutrition & Food, Hygiene, Equipment & Camp Organization, Canoeing safely.

Creating & Improvising useful items from natural materials like wood, leather/skins, wool, canvas; to make shelters, camp furniture, tools, clothes, mittens, foot wear. 

I love teaching people who are new to canoeing how to be more effective paddlers.

Learn how to craft your own hand-made items using wool, canvas, leather and skins.  Wool anoraks, Snow Smock, mittens, mukluks. Or pouches and other useful items.