Meet Me in the Middle - Chapter 13: Outdoor Adventures

This chapter is all about taking your students on a trip in the outdoors. They mention camping as the main activity and list numerous activities that can take place during a class camping trip. There really are so many possibilities that I never thought of. As an english teacher I really like the idea of using nature and the wilderness as an inspiration for their writing. Giving students time to sit down outside while camping and write a story while they are immersed in the setting of it can be really fun. I also like all of the activities centered around water because I know students could have a lot of fun with that. Survival skills seems like something all students should learn while camping because a lot of then haven;t even been camping before and don’t really know any of the basic camping information.

The first thing that the chapter mentioned was that outdoors activities with students allows students to see their teacher as a real person. This stuck in my head throughout the whole chapter because I never really thought of my teachers and people, they were just teachers in my mind. I remember I saw some of my teachers at the bowling alley one night having fun and laughing and I was shocked at this scene. Apparently I wasn’t aware that my teachers had lives outside of school and could actually have fun with one another. Now that I am going to be a teacher I look back on that and find it funny, but I also want to find ways for my students to see me in a different light other than a teacher and all the outdoors activities provided in this chapter can really create a strong relationship amongst teachers and students. I would absolutely love to go on a camping trip with my future students someday.