- Type Experience
- Time Days
- Cost Free
Girls* on Rock Wilderness Field Science Skills
Issued by
University of Colorado Boulder
Girls* on Rock is a 12-day rock climbing and wilderness expedition for high school youth. Learners engage in scientific inquiry and artistic exploration while camping, hiking, and rock climbing in the Rocky Mountains. In small groups, participants conduct research projects and present their findings. Throughout the expedition, participants engage in various art forms and storytelling. Learners demonstrate numerous leadership and wilderness skills.
- Type Experience
- Time Days
- Cost Free
Skills
- Collaboration And Teamwork
- Conflict Resolution
- Creativity
- Critical Thinking
- Experimentation
- Independence
- Interpret Data
- Leadership
- Organization
- Persistence
- Personal Responsibility
- Presentations
- Problem Solving
- Research
- Research Design
- Research Methodologies
- Research Report Writing
- Scientific Demonstrations
- Scientific Reasoning
- Teamwork
Earning Criteria
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Demonstrate wilderness skills while spending 12 days camping, hiking, and climbing with the expedition team. This includes safely and correctly setting up camp gear including tents, stoves, and water purification methods; safely using ropes, harnesses, and belay devices to climb and descend vertical rock in a way that mitigates risk; practicing leave-no-trace principles; and practicing hygiene and self-care in a wilderness environment.
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Demonstrate successful leadership and personal growth throughout the expedition. This includes fulfilling various leadership roles in camp, and demonstrating knowledge of when to step up and when to step back, evaluating self-status and needs, communicating and advocating for personal needs; explaining and reflecting on different communication styles and modes, and describing and applying strategies for effectively resolving conflicts.
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Work in a small group to conduct an experiment in the field and present findings. This includes asking questions based on observations; formulating a testable hypothesis; designing and implementing a process to collect the data needed to test the hypothesis; recording systematic observations of natural phenomena in a field notebook; analyzing and synthesizing data; and presenting about the research findings including introduction, methods, results, conclusion and discussion.
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Explore a variety of art forms and storytelling methods and discuss and reflect on different ways of knowing.
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Learners will individually complete a self-assessment, and submit a skills checklist and their research presentation to demonstrate their learning.