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Outdoor Education
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Outdoor Education Programs
At YMCA Camp E.L.K. and YMCA Camp Coulter Pines, we can provide your students with an unforgettable learning experience. Camp E.L.K.'s year-round facilities can accommodate 140 students on 5.5 acres of natural forest and desert. We can help you plan a three-day to five-day program including lodging, meals, recreation and educational programming.
We offer a wide range of hands-on learning activities geared to the common curriculum and to your needs.
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Science areas offered:
- Ecology
- Botany
- Habitat
- Zoology
- Geology
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We strive to make our outdoor education programs an extention of the classroom. We can tailor our programs to fit the needs of your school group. We invite you to discuss with us specific curriculum areas you wish to cover in order to supplement classroom content areas. This classroom of mountains, desert, forest, and wetlands is for you to use to reinforce the each student's engagement with and understanding of the topics they are learning. Our staff can provide support in choosing the right activities to fit your group's needs.
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Leadership Development
In our Outdoor Education Programs, participants learn about the world around them while also learning about their place in the world and in their own communities. Many of our activities encourage participants to practice teamwork and cooperation, challenge themselves physically and mentally and to learn more about themselves while living and working cooperatively in a community environment.
At YMCA Camping Services, we believe leadership development involves more than physical elements and challenges. We provide opportunities for participants to learn to communicate effectively and build the foundations of real cooperation, self-esteem and character.
Our leadership and teambuilding programs use many camp resources to give groups practice in working well together while helping individual participants gain experience in cooperation, leadership, and self-awareness. Individual and team initiatives throughout camp focus the group on achieving shared goals while learning about and exploring the natural world.
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The Philosophy and Goals of Outdoor Education at San Gabriel Valley Family YMCA Camping Services
All of our outdoor education programs aim to develop the core YMCA Character Values including Caring, Honesty, Respect and Responsibility within the individual and the group. Our programs encourage development through experiential learning in the following areas:
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- Self esteem, confidence and motivation
- Co-operation, trust and empathy
- Communication skills including negotiation and decision making
- An ability for critical thinking, lateral thinking and problem solving
- Self reliance, the ability to take responsibility
- Futures thinking
- A sense of belonging to the natural world
- Creativity, imagination and a personal response to the environment
- Knowledge of ecology and social and political systems
- An ability for reflection, inquiry/questioning, analysis and evaluation
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We believe that in all educational and leadership activities, students should be able to have an enjoyable, memorable time while learning. We believe in creating experiential education programs of the highest quality while ensuring that that participants have fun and exciting experiences in a safe and nurturing environment. |
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