The Goddard-Riverside Educational Camp Program is a combination community center camp-city school program for New York City school children. Four hundred eighty fifth graders participated in the program. Groups of students with their teachers and program staff spent one week at the Goddard-Riverside Camp in upstate New York. As part of the…

This report evaluated a four phase environmental sciences program designed to serve 654 students from 23 different fifth grade classes from a Manhattan community school district. Phase one, a pre-camp educational program in the classroom, was designed to introduce the participating classes to the concepts of environmental sciences which the…

This book describes a 5-day program of imaginative activities designed to help elementary school children learn how their world functions through seeing, smelling, tasting, touching, and hearing. The book is designed to help children understand energy flow, the cycles of basic materials, the diversity of life, natural communities, change,…

Divided into six sections, the guide provides helpful information for the teacher to prepare students to attend the Orange County Outdoor School. Pre-camp responsibilities section provides pre-camp preparation checklists for the principal, teacher, parents, school nurse, and outdoor specialist; a checklist for morning departure; discipline policy…