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Nolen-Parkhouse, Andrew – 1982
In resident outdoor education programs, students and their teachers attend an outdoor facility for two days or longer and use the outdoor environment as their primary classroom, focusing on natural sciences, outdoor recreation, social skills, and attitudinal and cognitive development. A resident program should have significant impact on social…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Cognitive Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education
Download full textERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 17 titles deal with the following topics: disadvantaged and nondisadvantaged students' detection of written fallacies in reasoning; the effects of remedial reading instruction, a camp-style reading/study program, and reading…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Auditory Training, Black Students, Compensatory Education
Kemp, Peter, Comp.; Nemmers, Larry, Comp. – 1971
This teacher's guide for planning the elementary outdoor education curriculum focuses primarily, though not exclusively, on activities for sixth graders who participate in a three-day resident program at Camp Edwards. Over 150 activities are organized under the subject areas of natural science, language arts, social studies, mathematics, and…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides, Educational Objectives
Carter, James D. – 1979
In an effort to assess program effectiveness, demographic data derived from institutional records on 161 emotionally troubled youth having participated in the Eckerd Wilderness Program were analyzed in terms of interview data derived from a sample of 27 males and 22 females enrolled in the Eckerd camps March 1, 1968-December 31, 1971. The static…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Camping, Cooperative Planning, Correctional Rehabilitation
Carter, James D. – 1979
In an effort to assess program effectiveness, demographic data derived from institutional records on 335 emotionally troubled youth who had participated in the Eckerd Wilderness Program were analyzed in terms of interview data derived from a random sample (32 males and 32 females) of youth enrolled in the Eckerd camps March 1, 1968- December 31,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Camping, Cooperative Planning, Correctional Rehabilitation
Fox, Florence C. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1927
Recreational areas in the form of State parks and forests bear a close relationship to the welfare of the boys and girls of America. This bulletin is in accord with the plan of the bureau to offer, from time to time, to the elementary schools of the country certain subjects of study in the form of new materials of instructions so prepared that…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Recreation, Parks, Resident Camp Programs
Hall, McClellan – 1987
The Indian Youth Leadership Program and the Indian Youth Leadership Camp (IYLC) were created in 1981 in response to the need to develop specific skills in Indian youth who will assume leadership positions in the future at the family, school, community, tribal, and national level. Patterned after the National Youth Leadership Camp, the IYLC emerged…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indians, Camping
