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September 23rd, 2022
Learning
-Gear prep for LAPP trip next week
-Meal planning
-Mental Health Journal
-Scientific Method
-Long term experiment start-soil preparation, planting

September 22nd, 2022

Learning
-Meal planning
-Hiking from Raven's Ridge

-Plants vs. Fungi vs. Lichens
-Collecting plant roots and seeds
-Forest Orienteering 

Looking ahead:
-Reproductive Cycles due tomorrow
-Social studies archaeology assignment due tomorrow


​September 21st, 2022
Learning
-Bike Trip Reflections
-Reproductive cycles
-Defining racism
-Orienteering introduction and short course

September 12th, 2022

Learning
-Mental Health Journal
-Completing Beringia Assignment
-Trip prep, personal and group gear
-Bike gearing assignment
-Social studies-How do we know what we know?

September 8th, 2022

Learning
-Trip reflections
-Meal Planning for bike trip
​-Using bear barrels
-Mental Health Journal entries
-Bike repairs, fitting paniers

September 7th, 2022

Learning
-Unlearning

-Social studies project-completing the story of the Whitneys
-Bike preparation
-Bike skills (braking, shifting, foot position)
-Group bike rules 


September 6th, 2022

Learning
-Gear storage and care, drying tents and gear
-Evidence, inference, opinion and belief
-Social studies project-What happened to the Whitneys?
-Putting kayaks in storage-walk to the department of education

Looking ahead
-Biking trip next week
​-Bike training tomorrow afternoon and Friday

August 26th, 2022

Learning
-Companion rescues kayaking
-Individual rescues kayaking
-Turning technique in kayaks
-Group paddling techniques
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Looking Ahead
-Shopping needs to happen by Saturday

-Chili needs to be cooked by Sunday and frozen
-Banana bread needs to be cooked this weekend
​-Gear needs to be packed this weekend. 

August 25th, 2022

Learning
-Nutrition
-Camp food do's and don'ts
-Mandatory meals
-Meal planning for Haines and shopping lists
-Inuit games and group games outside

Looking ahead:
-Kayak rescues tomorrow
-Shopping needs to happen by Saturday
-Chili needs to be cooked by Sunday and frozen
-Banana bread needs to be cooked this weekend
​-Gear needs to be packed this weekend. 

August 24th, 2022

Learning
-Parts of a kayak and paddle
-loading and unloading boats
-Entering and exiting kayaks
-Fitting boats
-Kayaking technique-stroke rate, timing, rudder use, steering

Looking ahead
-Meal planning tomorrow
-Kayak rescues Friday
-Shopping needs to happen this weekend for trip next week

August 23rd, 2022

Learning
-Trucker's Hitch
-Acceptable vs. Unacceptable risks
-OPES class contract-rules and consequences
-Kayak Trip Gear Check and gear fitting for tomorrow
-Leave no trace camping principles
-Tent set-up
-Cold water boot camp


August 22nd, 2022
Learning
-Bowline
-Berry picking and biology
-Use of Trangia stoves and dehydrators
-Dish washing
-Journal introduction

Looking ahead
-Kayak training Wednesday and Friday this week
-Meal planning Thursday
-Gear and safety Tuesday

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