Mar 13, 2014 | Courses Classes & Workshops, Environmental Learning, People & Programs, TTC at SHC
YouthWork & Learn students have been studying survival skills this season, from fire and shelter building to emergency first aid. This culminated in the official SOLO Wilderness First Aid (WFA) course, a two-day event resulting in certificates of completion for...
Jan 30, 2014 | Camps, Environmental Learning, TTC at SHC
Join us for a week of winter survival activities exploring the winter woodlands. Learn how to build snow shelters and campfires. Track animals and see how they adapt to winter conditions. Be a citizen scientist with probes and ...
Jan 19, 2014 | Alternative Education, Environmental Learning, TTC at SHC
Reports on Jan. 8 shelter building at YouthWork&Learn at Smokey House: Robin Chesnut-Tangerman (instructor): With the onset of real winter weather we are spending time learning about winter survival and wilderness first aid. We had talked about emergency...
Dec 18, 2013 | Alternative Education, Environmental Learning, Programs, TTC at SHC
What do you do when the first substantial snowfall turns your world white? You go outside! Never mind that it’s 12 degrees outside with a wind chill factor around zero. Monday, as part of our study of winter ecology and wilderness survival, we built a...
Dec 1, 2013 | Alternative Education, Environmental Learning, Programs, TTC at SHC
November flew by at our high school YouthWork and Learn program at the Smokey House Center. Highlights include: * Cooking and eating from the garden throughout the month, starting with pumpkin pie and ending with carrot-corn burritos. * Co-hosting a workshop on soil...
Nov 14, 2013 | Alternative Education, Environmental Learning, Programs, TTC at SHC
Here it is – November already! With the garden finished for the season, we can look back at the first quarter and a wide range of educational activities. Here’s a sample of what we did in September and October: The on-going theme of our program is food – where it...
