Learn how to use adventure as a hook for learning and also create a community of life-long learners, with the techniques carefully explained in Adventure in the Classroom. This text offers a unique and exciting resource to teachers, curriculum developers, administrators, and teachers of teachers by explaining the core concepts of Adventure Education and how they can be used to create a classroom where learning truly becomes an adventure.

Written for instructors who want their classroom experience to be as involving as the field, Teaching Adventure Education Theory offers activities instructors can use to help students make the connections between theory and practice. Top educators provide lesson plans that cover adventure theory, philosophy, history, and conceptual models.

Empower your students instead of coercing them through punishments and external rewards. Engaged by the activities in this character education curriculum, students will choose responsible behavior. Help your students master communication skills, create plans, make decisions, solve problems, and resolve conflicts. Your efforts will build classroom communities that support character development, individual and social responsibility, and academic excellence.

Describes how to create an effective learning environment in which students share common interests and goals.

Young children will be immersed in imaginative, messy play and crafts, while older ones can work on more complex activities like stone tool making and sourcing water. Whether in an organized setting, a group of friends or a family outing, the fun-filled games will build confidence, bonding and result in happy children. Entertaining anecdotes from the authors' own experience of surviving in the wild can be read aloud to children, bringing to life the thrilling reality of sleeping in a cave or savoring your first-ever foraged meal. Learn how to light a fire without matches, build a shelter to sleep in, cook on a fire, hunt for bugs and much more. From essential bushcraft basics and Stone Age survival skills to joyful outdoor play, this book is packed with ideas to bring children closer to nature and all its magical offerings.

The very best of Project Adventure's 30 years of experience is captured in this book. The curriculum contains complete and sequenced K-12 lesson plans and is aligned with national and PE standards. Activities are designed to address such issues as developing leadership ability, enhancing problem-solving skills and learning to work as a member of a team. Assessment tools are also included.

From the author of the 2013 Caldecott Honor Book, ONE COOL FRIEND! Annie Grace wears her "Adventure Annie" cape to her first day of kindergarten, and proceeds to barrel through the day, searching for adventure in every moment. Her interpretation of the class's Gold Star Rules isn't exactly what her teacher, Mr. Todd, had in mind. But somehow Annie does manage to save the day when two of her classmates get lost on their way to retrieve the afternoon snack. Spirited and funny, this is an introduction to kindergarten that will please kids and teachers alike.