A guide to a five-day program designed to help elementary-age children understand their world by using all five senses.

Sunship Earth: An Acclimatization Program for Outdoor Learning

Education & Teaching

American Camping Association

Steve Van Matre

Schools & Teaching

Amer Camping Assn

Recognized by Campfire Boys and Girls, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, and the U.S. Forest Service, the Outdoor Living Skills (OLS) program is the most effective program for training adults to teach children how to respect and protect outdoor areas. This manual provides the curriculum for teaching the OLS program leader course and for implementing the American Camping Association's OLS program. Camp, agency, university, and other organizational leaders use this curriculum to train their staff, volunteers, and students to teach outdoor skills to children.

Outdoor Living Skills Instructors Manual

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Amer Camp Assn

This book contains all industry accepted standards for any type of multiday gaming program. These American Camping Association standards will help camp owners maintain the legal standards of operation. All aspects of camp management are outlined, such as site organization, transportation, health and wellness, and programmed activities. Helpful resources explaining how to work through the accreditation process are included.

Accreditation Standards for Camp Programs and Services 1998

Sports & Outdoors

Independent Pub Group

There are few finer ways to entertain and teach than with a skillfully told story set in an atmosphere of friendship and communion around the glow of a crackling campfire. This collection of stories, handpicked by camp directors, will delight modern campers and storytellers everywhere. Supporting the rich oral tradition behind campfire stories, these well-loved tales include humorous, ghost, and adventure stories; stories from other lands; stories with a moral; and Native American tales. Included are guidelines and how-to's for telling a gripping story.

Stories for the Campfire

Each summer brings thousands of camps and their directors the challenge of maintaining health care and managing safety. Although the professionals who offer their services as nurses often bring years of experience with them, the closed community of a camp is fraught with its own set of unique difficulties. From establishing the health center and orienting staff to diagnosing injury and illness and managing communicable disease, this quick and practical reference enables any health-care professional to arrive at camp and hit the ground running.

The Basics of Camp Nursing

Business & Money

Pravda, Myra

Erceg, Linda Ebner

Industries

"Recognized by Campfire Boys and Girls, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, and the U.S. Forest Service, the Outdoor Living Skills (OLS) program is the most effective program for training adults to teach children how to respect and protect outdoor areas. This manual provides the curriculum for teaching the OLS program leader course and for implementing the American Camping Association's OLS program. Camp, agency, university, and other organizational leaders use this curriculum to train their staff, volunteers, and students to teach outdoor skills to children. "

Outdoor Living Skills Instructors Manual: For Administering the Ols Program in a Camp and for Teaching the Program Leader Course

Hiking & Camping

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