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school's courtyard provides a safe haven for students to try out their newly
acquired camping skills in preparation for multiday trips to Rio Mesa,
a recently developed outdoor education center near Moab, five hours
away from the hubbub of Salt Lake
City. There is no shortage of parents
who want to come along on the day
or overnight field trips. Other SLCSE
teachers, interested in Eaton's program, are always willing to work with
him to make crosscurricular connections, such as incorporating physics,
geometry or biology lessons into an
adventure outing. Equipment, which
can be an expensive component of
outdoor recreation programs, is often donated by companies looking to
offload last year's models or from local nonprofit agencies or community
members.

Developing lifelong
recreational interests in
the context of physical
education just makes
good sense.
Although Eaton's adventure-based
physical education curriculum is only
a few years old, Principal Madden believes the benefits are manifold:
There is a powerful cultural impact
in taking students away from the
brick and mortar of a public school
building and putting them in an unfamiliar environment (nature) where
they have to work together as a team
to overcome new challenges. The outing has a leveling effect. The students
return to the classroom more willing to
help and rely on one another to solve

problems in the same way they learned
to help and rely on one another in
meeting challenges in the out-of-doors.
Developing lifelong recreational interests in the context of

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