Length of trip: 5 days
Recommended group size: 25 to 150
Maximum size of Learning Group: 14 students

Index:

• Goals For The Course
• Activity Schedule

GOALS FOR THE COURSE

Peak Performance!™ works directly with the school to identify and develop the program content by creating a curriculum that complements the school's goals for the outdoor education program. As a guide in framing a school’s program goals, we have outlined keys to Peak program effectiveness.

Peak Performance!™ provides many types of learning activities in which students inevitably find themselves absorbed and deeply invested in outcomes--a perfect situation for learning. A team challenge course allows students to experiment with solutions to real-life situations without real-life consequences. At the foundation of Peak Performance!™ activities are skills crucial for success in life-communication, problem solving, teamwork, appropriate risk taking, and goal setting.

Peak Performance!™ programs emphasize significant, positive, lasting changes in individuals and communities. Sample goals related to these philosophies, to be achieved at the Peak Performance! ™ Mountain Camp, include:

• Have a fun and positive outdoors experience in order to foster future learning in, and appreciation of, the natural world
  
• Engage students physically, intellectually, and emotionally in discovering information and to ensure the transfer of those lessons learned into their everyday lives
  
• Provide time and opportunity for reflection of their experiences maximizing the retention of the concepts identified
  
• Be able to identify examples of various ecological processes in the surrounding area

ACTIVITY SCHEDULE

Depending on your group’s objectives, the schedule can include half-day nature hikes, Team Challenge Course, High Adventure (Ropes) Course, canoeing, swimming, horseback riding or nature activities in a progressive rotation.

Day 1
Group Arrival
Move into Cabins
Lunch
Introduction/Program Opening

• Safety
• Local Wildlife
• Emergency Procedures
• Challenge by Choice
• Split into Learning Groups
• Camp Tour

“Icebreaker” Activities
Dinner
Opening Campfire

Day 2
Breakfast
Nature Hike/Ecology Education
Lunch
Wilderness Skills
Arts and Crafts in Nature
Dinner
Wildlife Presentation
Astronomy Program
Learning Group Debrief/Reflection Activity

Day 3
Breakfast
Game Initiatives
Horseback Riding
Lunch
Low Challenge Course
Climbing Wall
Dinner
Night Hike/Night Sensory Activities

Day 4
Breakfast
High Adventure (Ropes) Course
Lunch
Solo Experience
Talent Show Prep
Dinner
Talent Show

Day 5
Breakfast
Clean and pack up
Closure Learning Group Activities
Group Closing

• Lessons from Geese

Lunch
Farewells and Departure