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Outdoor Adventures Curriculum

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Being the Outdoor Adventures instructor at Argyle High School is a truly rewarding experience. It is a great day when you hear your students say, “Your class is the greatest class I have ever taken.” Over the past 8 years, I’ve had the pleasure of seeing over 100 students catch the first fish of their lives while teaching Outdoor Adventures. 

The Outdoor Adventures physical education class is not your traditional PE course. Instead of teaching PE with basketballs and tennis rackets, we use rods and reels, and bows and arrows. The Outdoor Adventures course is designed to change young people’s lives forever by exposing them to the many great opportunities of the outdoors. The Outdoor Adventures curriculum includes: Scope and Sequence, Course Syllabus, Daily Lesson Plans and a Course Expenditure page. The Outdoor Adventures course is an 18 week (one semester) course and includes:

  1. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s Angler Education
  2. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s Boat Education
  3. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s Hunter Safety
  4. National Archery in Schools Program
  5. Orienteering and GPS
  6. Survival Skills
  7. Outdoor Cooking
  8. CPR/First Aid
Each lesson is aligned with the Texas Essential Knowledge of Skills (TEKS) for the Texas Education Association’s Outdoor Adventures Education (116.53) course and includes:
  1. Student Objectives
  2. Materials needed
  3. Resources and web links
  4. Pre-class materials
  5. Class activities
  6. Vocabulary
  7. Lesson Assessments
  8. Modifications
  9. Enrichments

Many of the lessons have additional worksheets, class activities and unit exams provided by the team of curriculum writers. 

In today’s accelerated curriculum, full of bench mark testing, TAKS tests and academic pressures, students need a fun class that will motivate them to stay in school and concentrate on their studies. The Outdoor Adventures course is a physical education credit at the high school level, but can be offered as an elective at the middle school level. Some schools are using the curriculum to supplement Wildlife Management courses in their Agriculture Science Department. A school district can successfully meet the unique needs of its students through the Outdoor Adventures curriculum.

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