Training Materials

Agenda at a Glance

Use this agenda for times and locations for the daily activities. We will continue to fill in this agenda up until the day before the event with locations for breakout sessions.

Packing List

Don’t forget it! Check the list for any items you need to participate in all conditions.

Ocean Park Camp Map

Need to know where a building or meeting place it? Check the map!

FieldSTEM Hike Academic Standards

These are the content standards intentionally addressed by the FieldSTEM hike experience. Please read the list to be aware!

Relative Abundance and Ratios for 5th Graders

This document explains relative abundance and the types of mathematical representations that 5th and 6th grade students will use on the hike. Please review in order to prepare for the hike.

Schoolyard Quadrants: Sampling & Biodiversity Activity

Please read pages 1 and 3 from this Oregon State University lesson to learn about a type of sampling we will do on the hike (random sampling). This will be necessary background to better understand our activity.

Traditional Native Storytelling with Rodger Fernandes: “Salmon Boy”

Roger Fernandes is a Native American artist, storyteller, and educator whose work focuses on the culture and arts of the Coast Salish tribes of western Washington. He is a member of the Lower Elwha S’Klallam Tribe and has a B.A. in Native American Studies from The Evergreen State College and an M.A. in Whole Systems Design from Antioch University.

Night Hike Activities

CHQOS: Characteristics of High-Quality Outdoor Schools

The Characteristics of High-Quality Outdoor Schools contains a rubric that identifies key components of outdoor school with descriptive indicators and resources to help your team learn about and implement positive change.

CHQOS- FieldSTEM Hike Indicators

These two indicators are intentionally addressed by the FieldSTEM hike experience. Please read the descriptions along the “more like and less like” continuum for just these two indicators. We will discuss where you see evidence of these indicators when out in the field.

S4: Seasonally Relevant Programming

L3: Interdisciplinary Learning