The Salt Lake Center for Science Education has as part of its Mission Statement a challenge to “take healthy risks” and to “develop the character and skills to Change Reality.”
Our Healthy Lifestyles department began early in 2008 identifying just what healthy risks today’s youth could and would take. We invested time crafting a PE and Health curriculum that introduced Outdoor Adventure Education throughout the year with our 6th through 12th Grade students. Collaboratively blending traditional PE and Health classes with Outdoor Exploration Field classes, Field Trips, and Camping Explorations has developed fulfilled, experienced, and confident students who transfer skills to other challenges and opportunities in their world of sometimes not so healthy risk.
Come explore techniques and opportunities you can use to get your students outside…, their comfort zones.
Resources:
What is Experiential Education?
What is Attention Restoration Therapy?
SLCSE's Outdoor Adventure Philosophy and History?
Lifetime Actives Core - USBE
Presenter:
Cavett Eaton
Cavett has a B.S. degree in Environmental Studies and a Masters of Science in Experiential Education from the Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism at the U of U. He has teaching certificates in Physical Education and Health, and an endorsement in teaching ESL. This spring, Cavett will complete a Certified Trauma Practitioner-Education certification.
Previous to his 11 years at SLCSE, Cavett worked for over 21 years as an environmental educator, consultant, designer, and fabricator of natural habitats for zoos, museums, and aquariums including Utah’s Hogle Zoo, the Living Planet Aquarium, as well as owning his own Exhibit Design and Fabrication Business. Cavett has received the Silver Beaver Award from the Great Salt Lake Council of the Boy Scouts of America. . In 2013, Cavett was nominated by the Utah Association of Health, Physical Education and Dance, APHERD, as the Recreation Specialist of the Year.
As a founding faculty member at SLCSE, he has enjoyed shaping the Healthy Lifestyles program, emphasizing an experiential and holistic approach to PE, Health, Character, and Life Skills.
cavett.eaton@slcschools.org
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