Teacher Guide Overview
Outside Adventure Grants combine exploration and education to turn every student into an explorer who takes an active role in the learning process. Creating, organizing, and leading their own expedition empowers students and transforms them from spectators to participants who are bringing adventure into their own lives.

Like all great expeditions, Outside Adventure Grants are far more than just a cool trip (though they are that too). The grants teach both life skills and academic lessons: Creating and planning an expedition requires teamwork, organization, communication, problem solving, and, perhaps most importantly, imagination. Outside Adventure Grants prove that with hard work, dreams can come true. The young explorers who win Outside Adventure Grants are tangible examples of what all kids can achieve. They'll become teachers in their classrooms and leaders in their community by sharing their expedition experiences with kids and adults through photographs, journal entries, and interactive events on Outside Online (http://outside. starwave.com), as well as other television and print media.

In the classroom, Outside Adventure Grants can be used to help teach history, English, geography, ecology, geology, and climatology. These disciplines can be focused on separately or within a multi-disciplinary setting. The flexible nature of Outside Adventure Grants allows you to incorporate the proposal process into existing curricula to pique students' interest, empower them to drive the learning process, and make the learning experience memorable and fun. They can also serve as an extra-curricular or co-curricular activity for especially motivated students.

Look at Class workshops and Assignments for specific suggestions about how Outside Adventure Grants can be used in your classroom. Utilize our suggestions or come up with your own ways to take advantage of this unique opportunity.

Class Workshops and Assignments