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Teaching Lifetime Outdoor PursuitsBook & CD-ROM |
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Jeff Steffen, Jim Stiehl
2010
Paperback with CD
US Price:$39$31.20 (20% off)
Book/CD 240 pages
9780736079990Table of Contents | About Book
Do you want to help your middle and high school students become more resilient and patient, acquire new skills, and sharpen their problem-solving abilities while feeling competent and good about themselves? If you do, then Teaching Lifetime Outdoor Pursuits is the ideal tool for you.
Editors Jeff Steffen and Jim Stiehl are nationally known physical educators with extensive experience in outdoor education teaching and teacher training. They brought together some of the nation’s foremost experts in specific outdoor pursuits—such as bouldering, caving, rock climbing, and orienteering—to craft a book designed for physical educators who either have outdoor programs or who want to use outdoor activities in their traditional PE programs.
The 12 topics included in Teaching Lifetime Outdoor Pursuits represent the outdoor pursuits that show the greatest growth in traditional PE programs. With each pursuit, students can challenge themselves and spend time outside of the customary classroom context while sharing an adventure with their teachers that can create a profoundly different student–teacher relationship.
Teaching Lifetime Outdoor Pursuits is a comprehensive resource whose ideas and content can be incorporated into a traditional PE program regardless of geographic location. The activities for each pursuit align with NASPE content standards. For each pursuit, you are given detailed information on equipment needed, basic skills and techniques required, teaching strategies, safety considerations, and additional resources.
In addition, Teaching Lifetime Outdoor Pursuits offers
- clear instruction on what to teach, how to teach it, and how to assess student learning;
- an attached CD-ROM that supplies objectives, sample lessons, sample assessments, and universal programming ideas for each outdoor pursuit presented in the book; and
- information to help you advocate for adding outdoor activities to your program.
This authoritative resource will help you “leave no child inside” as you teach pursuits that not only get kids outside now but also help them develop a lifetime habit of outdoor enjoyment.
This is an excerpt from Teaching Lifetime Outdoor Pursuits by editors Jeff Steffen and Jim Stiehl.
To avoid unnecessary redundancy, the next few sections of this chapter address shared topics that cut across all outdoor pursuits, such as general risk management, trip planning, and Leave No Trace. The subsequent chapters then focus on particular types of outdoor pursuits, each following a similar format in order to provide ease of presentation and a basis of comparison among chapters. For example, how might safety considerations for rock climbing differ from those for mountain biking? Unit plans, lesson plans, and assessments for each chapter are included on the accompanying CD-ROM. A sample lesson plan is included at the end of this chapter.
Bear in mind that these chapters are not written for outdoor education teachers with extensive training and background experience in outdoor pursuits. Rather, they provide essential information for introducing a group of physical education students to new experiences in ways that maximize enjoyment and minimize risk. The following is the general format used for each outdoor pursuits chapter:
- Introduction. The introduction includes a general description of the activity and, when helpful, background information on its history or development. Benefits specific to that activity, such as the social aspects of certain orienteering activities or the cognitive challenge of solving a bouldering problem, might also be included.
- Equipment. After the activity is introduced, the basic equipment required is identified and explained. This should assist in determining the type and extent of resources required for the activity.
- Basic skills and technique. This section describes the agreed-upon educational goals and basic content suggestions for each activity. Popular teaching techniques and terminology unique to the activity may also be included.
- Safety considerations. Although a number of principles apply to all outdoor pursuits, specific activities might involve specific risks. In rock climbing, for example, complacency when tying into a harness may lead to an unwelcome and serious mishap. This section discusses these risks and how to manage them. Also included are recommendations for how to treat the outdoor environment responsibly when participating in the various physical activities.
- References and recommended readings. This book should be viewed as a springboard from which physical education teachers can enhance their effectiveness. Eventually many teachers will want to fine-tune their curriculum and look for new ways to teach it. The accompanying resources should serve as a starting point for obtaining additional information and support.
- Unit plans. To aid the reader, unit plans that match those on the CD-ROM are included at the end of each chapter.
In addition, each chapter provides Teaching Tips. These are hints and suggestions to help physical education teachers integrate a given outdoor pursuit into their programs.
