October 7 2004
4:00 PM - 6:15 PM
SWEP Teacher’s Interpretive Hike Series: Orienteering and Mapping
Location: TBA
Join Sierra Watershed Education Partnerships (SWEP) for the Fall Teacher’s Interpretive Hike Series in 2004. The teachers Interpretive Hike Series is an exciting opportunity for teachers to explore the local area with resource professionals, focusing on specific aspects of our unique watershed. Teachers will gain ideas and on how to interpret nature and ways of incorporating the California standards in all subject areas. Lesson plans, activities and resource lists will be provided along with potential place based -service learning projects. District buy-back credit is available with administrative approval.

Hike Schedule: Orienteering and Mapping with interpreter Dan Allison, environmental outdoor educator. Explore mapmaking with students, including developmentally appropriate mapping from home to school to neighborhood to world. We will cover map and compass skills and include how to design an orienteering course and test our own skills. For those who return, we will wrap up with a brief survival activity and Leave No Trace principles.

Each hike is limited to 25 TTUSD teachers or community resource professionals. There will be a $10.00 requested donation for each hike. Check made payable to SWEP. Snacks will be provided; Dress warm and arrive on time!
    Contact: Jan Ellis, SWEP, (775) 832-3714, jan@4swep.org
    Website: http://www.4swep.org