Skill Descriptor: Examine leadership skills in outdoor education activities

Global Competencies: CL, CM, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

• Describe strategies that foster positive group dynamics.
• Investigate leadership roles and responsibilities.
• Discuss effective communication and collaboration skills within a leadership context.
• Identify how leadership skills can affect performance in a variety of outdoor education activities.
• Differentiate between ethical and unethical behaviours in various outdoor education activities.

Skill Descriptor: Examine skills in outdoor education activities.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

• Discuss the major components of Wilderness First Aid related to outdoor education activities.
• Research illnesses and diseases encountered in an outdoor environment.
• Discuss a variety of knots and their applications.
• Identify and explain when and how to use different navigational tools for specific outdoor education activities.
• Determine considerations for establishing a camp site.
• Describe alternative methods and materials for starting a fire or building a shelter.
• Combine assorted balance and stability skills while practicing various activities in multiple environments.

Skill Descriptor: Analyze nutritional considerations.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

• Demonstrate the steps involved in securing clean water.
• Identify food sources within the natural environment.
• Discuss different food preparation methods.
• Reflect and share nutritional needs for participating in specific outdoor education activities.

Skill Descriptor: Integrate ecological awareness and the importance of protecting the natural environment.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

• Recognize the interconnectedness of all things: land, animals, people, weather and plants through experiences in nature.
• Discover how ecological knowledge is carried through story.
• Explain strategies for sustainability in our natural world while engaging in outdoor activities.
• Engage with community organizations that support conservation.
• Research how the degradation of the natural environment impacts Indigenous Peoples around the world and an action to mitigate it.
• Propose and execute a plan to decrease potential impacts on the natural environment.
• Demonstrate respect and appreciation of the natural surroundings.
• Model the principles of Leave No Trace.

Skill Descriptor: Analyze the elements of effective relationships and group dynamics.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

• Describe strategies for managing group dynamics and conflict resolution.
• Identify when to adapt to different roles within a group.
• Reflect impact of outdoor education upon relationships.

Skill Descriptor: Evaluate safety protocols in outdoor education activities

Global Competencies: CL, CM, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

• Create and implement a safety plan for outdoor education activities to reduce risk and mitigate hazards.
• Apply risk management strategies when leading others.
• Apply safe preparation, storage and transportation of food in outdoor education activities.
• Model respectful, ethical, and safe behaviours for self and others in multiple environments.

Skill Descriptor: Apply skills in outdoor education activities.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

• Use strategies to participate in new outdoor education activities, and define success for own self.
• Use strategies for managing group dynamics and conflict resolution.
• Demonstrate a variety of activity-specific knots and justify when to use them.
• Employ navigation skills to determine location and best routes when trip planning.
• Utilize alternative methods and materials for starting a fire or building a shelter for designated purposes.
• Demonstrate assorted balance and stability skills while participating in various activities in multiple environments.
• Execute skills required for competent participation in a variety of outdoor education activities.

Skill Descriptor: Integrate elements of personal and social development.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

• Model effective intrapersonal and interpersonal skills in group process.
• Demonstrate effective communication and collaboration skills within a group context.
• Evaluate the impact of relationships on performance during outdoor education activities.

Skill Descriptor: Model environmental leadership through practice

Global Competencies: CL, CM, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

• Create and implement an environmental initiative at school or in a community.
• Present a summary report of an environmental initiaitve for future implications.

Skill Descriptor: Examine outdoor educational careers.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

• Desribe a variety of post-secondary pathways to outdoor education related careers.
• Explore volunteer opportunities that connect outdoor education career pathways and plans for the future.
• Reflect on how skills and concepts learned in outdoor education may be transferable to a career path.