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Important Lessons Learned From My Trip To The Stingray Team

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It blows my mind the amount of lessons that nature can teach. Nature can teach many important lessons besides the obvious; animal habitats, abiotic, and biotic. Nature has taught me personally about teamwork, I learned this when I was out on a canoe trip in the Chesapeake bay with all of the girls of the Stingray team. I learned how important the habit of mind, thinking interdependently truly is. Some of us may have heard that we must think with our peers in order to be successful, this “rule” is true, especially when you are stuck in the middle of the water with only a classmate to get you back to shore. Our peers are like our life boat when we are stuck in a storm. When we first got to the Brock Center they did the usual, go over the rules, …show more content…

Bella and I decided that she would be the gas of the canoe first and I would be the steering wheel. Each canoe was like a sports team, if everyone was not on task then our trip would be a failure. When we first set off everything was going smooth, and then Taylors boat came crashing into us and we ran them into the marshland. They were freaking out that we were just going to leave them there stranded. We pulled our boat up to them and decided that we would lock hands and pull them out. We finally got them out, then we started going upstream. The instructor gave a few pointers on how to get back to where we were supposed to be. We had finally figured out the basics of …show more content…

We were excited to try it but none of us had ever done it so we were very confused. All of the other groups had already caught some sea life, we were still trying to figure the whole thing out. Our group decided to watch the other groups then try it again. We walked back and forth across the river several times. Once we watched them we figured out that our net was tilted the wrong way. We had our third attempt right as the instructor said that we had one more minute. We rushed to get back to shore, when we got back we were thrilled to find two blue crabs in our net. We had

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The more children interact with nature, the more they tend to know about it, and learn to care about it. The river curriculum might be an effective tool among children for preserving and protecting the river from causing further harm and being extinct, As children plant trees in the bank of the river, or tour sewage plant, they tend to be more familiar

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In the Jeannette Walls memoir Glass Castle, the author expounds on situations about education found beyond the classroom walls by using life lessons such as survival skills and moral lessons such as acceptance and forgiveness through figurative language by using imagery. One way Jeannette walls describe education beyond the classroom walls is through a life lesson such as survival skill. At a tender age of five jeannette learned to shoot guns and throw a knife; skills like this could be helpful if you were surviving in the wilderness. The author stated specifically “He also taught us the things that were really important and useful, like how to tap out Morse code and how we should never eat the liver of a polar bear because all the vitamin

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After a while of driving the boat looking for a spot to fish, we found a spot. The spot was perfect , and we were fishing in fifteen feet of water on a weed edge. Then, we put our rigs down. We were using Lindy rigs with a leech and started fishing. Then, my grandpa's drag started screaming -- he had a fish!

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