Outdoor Education
Situated in Northern Ontario's Boreal Forest, Confederation offers an outdoor education program.
These courses provide opportunities to develop a personalized approach to healthy active living through participation in classroom activities combined with strenuous outdoor experiences. Students are expected to explore and demonstrate appropriate knowledge, skills, and attitudes within three interconnected themes:
- Outdoor Skills – necessary for safe comfortable outdoor experiences in all seasons,
- Personal Development – team-building and leadership skills which stress understanding, respect, and appreciation for self and others, and,
- Environmental Understanding – awareness and respect of all living things and an understanding of basic ecological processes.
Students learn wilderness skills such as first aid, Nordic skiing, snowshoeing, winter camping, wilderness survival, ecology, hiking, orienteering, backpacking, swimming, canoeing, weather interpretation, teamwork, and leadership. Each semester the classes take canoe trips through the Temagami wilderness, hiking trips in Killarney Provincial Park, and a winter camping trip where they sleep in quinzhees they have constructed themselves.
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