What is the Community Adventure Program? The Community Adventure Program (CAP) is a unique academic experience for adventurous students who want to practice engaging outdoor skills, discuss and debate local outdoor and environmental issues, develop deeper friendships with their classmates, and who want to make a positive impact in their community. The CAP is unique… Read more »
Eric Malmborg, Rachel’s father, sent me this cool tundra cam on top of Niwot Ridge, which is very close to where we went on our winter camping trip last weekend. You can control the camera and zoom in on different areas up there. Enjoy! INSTAAR Tundra Cam II
The Community Adventure Trip Log (TLOG) is a tool that we use to document each trip. Students can use this as a reference and template for coordinating their own trips outside of this class and future CAP classes will use this information as a reference for future trips. This is also a reflective tool for… Read more »
On Friday, we went beyond the classroom to learn about the local ecology of Boulder and to start thinking about what it means to have a sense of place. Lynne Sullivan, from the City of Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks, taught us about the basic ecology of Boulder as well as winter survival strategies… Read more »
This week we spent a lot of time in class finalizing our vision for our Action Project and coordinating the logistics to make it all happen. We have two weeks to coordinate everything before the holiday break, so it is go time! Here is what we have come up with so far… Title: Transportation: From… Read more »
This was an extraordinary week as our class spent Tuesday finalizing logistics and making preparations for our last weekend overnight camping trip for the quarter. We had a unique opportunity to collaborate with the Binning Family Foundation, which is a private foundation in Littleton, Colorado that improves the lives of Colorado youth through a technology… Read more »
On Tuesday, we spent the class debriefing our first weekend overnight camping trip. We weren’t quite sure we were going to have a trip, because my co-instructor who usually comes on the overnight trips could not join us due to a medical issue. I wanted to thank my friend Janelle Weissman, who works for Social… Read more »
This week we dove deep into our Action Project as we began to define the Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) issue. Because this is a very broad topic, we began to analyze the issue by answering a few questions to further define the problem. On Tuesday we began to go through the Action Process by defining… Read more »
Emotions were running high as we went into this week’s Election. On Tuesday, we participated in an interactive lesson called “Rock the Environmental Vote.” While none of the students in our class were old enough to vote, it is important for students to have an understanding of the environmental issues on the ballot this year…. Read more »
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2004 – Avalanche Awareness. Colorado is ranked #1 in avalanche related deaths. Everyone believes that it cannot happen to them…but it can! Learn what you don’t know, what you should know & the basics of what you MUST know (all that we can fit into an hour and a half) to help… Read more »
