Outdoor Education
OBJECTIVES:
Psychomotor:
The students will be able to:
- Demonstrate proper walking technique
- Hike on trails of various terrain (hills, sand, dirt paths)
Cognitive:
The students will be able to:
- Monitor exercise intensity with heart rate monitors
- Identify benefits of hiking/walking,
- Increase the intensity hiking/walking
- Measure one’s own stride length and estimate distance travelled
- Use pedometers
- Analyze nutritional value of food
- Understand how to read a trail map (orient the map, thumb and track)
- Identify leaves on Long Island
- List 10 national parks in the U.S.
- Define heat exhaustion, heat stroke, hypothermia and dehydration
- List hiking safety factors
- List equipment needed for a day hike
Affective:
The students will be able to:
- Understand the importance of fairness and honesty.