Card N.3
3. Outdoor climbing
- From 4 hour to half a day
- Young people 13-18
- Mountain
- Climbing/Trekking
The aim of outdoor climbing is the fun projected vertically, trying to overcome their fears, as well as to become self-sufficient by becoming aware of their body and technical gesture.
It is an activity designed in several routes with ropes and climbing to do individually first and in group for mutual help and to develop collaboration through emotional approach.
This sport can be a metaphor for many topics to be discussed such as the goal – orientation, the sense of the limit, the importance of collaboration in roped.
Video: How climbing a mountain could set students up for life better than other subjects
They say students who learn by ‘doing’ — and who benefit from being outdoors — drop the subject in favour for more academic ones, so they can qualify for university.
Activities to develop
PERSONAL AND SOCIAL SKILLS
Outdoor educational activity of a sports-cultural type that stimulates body and mind, raising awareness of respect for nature and its observation, in a context of socialization and exchange, in favour of relationship and mutual help, orientation and exploration skills through all 5 senses.
- Orienteering
- Survival activity
Activities to develop
PRO-ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOURS
Develop the environmental awareness among the youth encouraging more sustainability literacy. Give young people the opportunity to change their mind, creating groups of debate, being able to connect any social actions or initiatives that they are involved in their local communities to global impacts. Try to ask for more involvement giving care to the local environment, creating awareness towards the global impact of their actions.
- Rules to stay in a natural environment
- Connect local to global impact
Activities to develop
THE EMOTIONAL CONNECTION WITH NATURE
Create a space for a connection with nature, working on environmental protection topic. Take different envelopes full of natural things. Deliver the envelope to different groups. Enhancing the creative thinking of youth asking them to write a story of environmental protection, including the things they have found in the envelope.
- Tell a story of environmental care