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Download full textSimpson, Mark – 1994
This paper describes how a school district in Maine implemented an outdoor education program centered around National Trails Day (a day of awareness of outdoor recreational areas in the United States). The program combined classroom learning with an all-day hike on the Appalachian Trail by 240 seventh-grade students. Numerous teachers, school…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Environmental Education, Grade 7, Interdisciplinary Approach
