Project Adventure

Here we are, another week in the books.  The grade 8s started Project Adventure (PA) on Tuesday and it will continue for the next 8 lessons.  Project Adventure is an opportunity for students to test their comfort zones in outdoor challenges such as climbing and repelling.  The students also have an opportunity to build their communication and problem solving skills while learning to respect, accept, and encourage others of different ability levels.

Our PA unit starts on the ground with tag games and teamwork challenges.  Through these activities students begin to see and discuss the five full value characteristics (FVC) (play hard, play safe, play fair, have fun, let go & move on) that we focus on.

The first teamwork exercise we did was an activity called Trollies.  Students must work together and problem solve to achieve a goal without anyone touching the ground.  If anyone on the team touches the ground the entire team has to start over.

Some ideas worked well...

Others did not...

More to come next week....