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Weekly outline
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Kia ora DEEP Outdoor Education students!
We have 10 sessions to learn about:
- Trip planning & risks,
- Weather,
- First Aid,
- Camp craft,
- Navigation,
- NZ outdoors,
- Environmental issues, etc.Please ask or email me if you have any questions
Mr Suckling :)
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We'll watch parts of this video clip and use it to make notes on what we should do to reduce risk:
Before leaving on an adventure
During the trip, especially if we get lost, tired or injured and can't continue
After the trip, when we finish
Video clip of Joe Baugardner who falls and breaks a leg (Fight to Survive, Season 3 Episode 4).
Parts (minutes): 6-10:30, 12-12:30, 14-14:25, 15-16:30, 17:18-18:50Before going on a trip, it's good to prepare a RAMS form.This stands for Risk Analysis Management System.It helps you make sure that you have thought of what might happen and what you need to keep safe.
Task on Google Classroom: "Planning a Trip so it's safe"
Here's a video by Ray Mears about surviving in the NZ outdoors.
As you watch the video, add to your notes on Joe Baugardner in the shared GDoc issued in GClassroom.
It outlines some mistakes made by a father & son on a tramping trip.
https://www.veoh.com/watch/v6336204t9Qxdwas
Extract (minutes) 2:16-8:05
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Weather on 24th May 2022 - photo and weather map
Link to 'How to read weather maps' (The Met Service)
Activities: Open the GDoc in GClassroom.In January and February, we are affected by cyclones in the Pacific Ocean coming close to New Zealand.
This happens more often in years of 'La Nina' weather patterns in the Ocean. A 'La Nina' started at the end of 2020 and is still with us in 2022.
Have a think about what sort of weather (humidity, temperature (air and sea), storms) we have been experiencing this summer
Below are some video clips of the weather forecast around the time of Cyclone Dovi in Feb 2022.
Wed 9th Feb 2022
Fri 11th Feb 2022
Sat 12th Feb 2022
Sun 13th Feb 2022
Surface Pressure maps for Sunday to Tuesday after Cyclone Dovi passes NZ:La Nina weather = hot, humid, cyclones
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This week, we'll toast marshmallows over a camp fire!!
Remember to start with very small, dry kindling, and build up the size of wood slowly.
The recent thunderstorms and very wet weather will not have helped. -
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First Aid means you're the first person to help someone.
It's important to go on a proper First Aid course (eg RedCross, St Johns, Meditrain).
(This lesson is not a 1st Aid course. It's just a taster of the things you would learn on a course)A good way to remember what to do is to follow the steps DRSABCD:
Danger - keep you and others safe (eg stop cars before helping someone who's in the road!)
Response - see if the person knows you're there and can communicate
Send for help - phone 111 or tell someone to get adult help
Airway - make sure the person's airway is open and not blocked
Breathing - see if they are breathing
Circulation - search for blood and stop the bleeding
Defibrillate - use an Automated External Defibrillator (AED)Questions you might have:
- Why's it important that I do a proper First Aid course?
- What do I do if there's bleeding?
- How do first aiders treat burns?
- How can 'DRSABCD' help you if you find an injured person?
- What's diabetes and what can happen?
- What happens if someone breaks a bone or dislocates a joint?
- What do I do if I sprain a ligament / strain a tendon?
- What is a heart attack and what are the signs?
- What do I do if someone has a seizure?
- What can happen if someone's allergic? What's anaphalaxis?
- What's concussion?
Call 111 in New Zealand
Activity: Click on the First Aid Scenarios in GClassroom
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Outdoors beyond NZ
Create a Google Doc to record information on the following activities.
Activity:
Watch these videos of extreme kayaking, solo climbing and mountain biking.
On Google Maps or Google Earth, find Yosemite National Park and the rock outcrop called El Capitan, that Alex Honnold climbed without ropes.
Activity:
Imagine that you were given $1 million to use for travel.
Make a list of places in the World that you'd like to visit and/or things that you'd like to do.
Then, find tour companies that offer these experiences and find out how much it might cost.
For example,
- sleep in an igloo and watch the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis);
- trek across the Sahara desert on a camel
- swim with sharks
- climb Mount Everest
- etc
Outdoors in NZ
Activity:
Now think about New Zealand.
Find information about activities closer to home. For example:
- Where can you go cage diving with sharks?
- What's the highest waterfall that you can white water raft over? Where is it?
- Are there Marine Parks around NZ and can you scuba dive there?
- How much is it to stay in a Department of Conservation hut?
- How many 'Great Walks' are there in NZ - where are they and which one would you like to walk?
On Google Earth, try to trace the route of one of the 'Great Walks' (information on them is below)The Great Walks
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This week we'll talk about equipment to take on an overnight tramp, and put up tents in Tāne Forest.There's lots of useful info at this NZ Mountains Safety Council site
https://www.mountainsafety.org.nz/learn/activities/multiday-tramping/Here's a suggested gear list from Tararua Tramping Club
https://www.ttc.org.nz/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Bushcraft/GearList -
This week, we'll use maps to locate 'control points' around the school.
We may also do this in Tāne Forest.
You may know that when this is done competitively, it's called orienteering.Things to learn:
- always 'orientate' the map
(turn it so the direction of objects on the map is the same as their direction from you on the ground).
- work out what the map symbols represent (eg building, stream, fence, path, bridge, etc)
- get used to the distances (objects on the map may be closer than you think!)
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- Trip planning & risks (things that can go wrong and how to avoid them, RAMS forms)
- Weather (reading a weather map, cold & warm fronts, high & low pressure, etc),
- First Aid (DRSABCD),
- Camp craft (Equipment, pitching a tent and lighting a fire),
- Navigation (map reading / orienteering),
- NZ outdoors (activities available in NZ, including the 'Great Walks')
- Environmental issues (Kauri Dieback, rubbish, erosion, etc). -
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