Ready to teach! Our first group of the season arrives today! I'm the only new instructor teaching this week so I'm a little terrified. First day is tour, intro hike, and insects and spiders where we dissect giant grasshoppers. Second day is mystery hike that it turns out is along a whole different trail from the one we originally thought, so I'm not sure what the curriculum will be, I've never hiked the whole trail, I'm taking two severe asthmatics on a 1,000 ft up over .5 miles hike with a rock climbing section and 500 ft cliff look-over, and it's supposed to snow. Then assuming we all make it back from the hike we'll do team challenge activities in the afternoon. Day three is geology/paleontology hike, aboriginal skills (hopefully I can find somebody else to demonstrate the atlatl throw) and night hike, and then my first time belaying on the rock wall on day four, and then we call it a week! yipes!
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| Here's my day one classroom, all set up for insects and spiders, |
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| Complete with grasshopper diagram so that I can make ABSOLUTELY POSITIVE no middle schoolers get ahead and like, flick chunks into their mouths or something. |
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