Youth Coed Nature Homeschool, After-School, Weekend, and Week Camps on Northern California's Coast


Coed Youth and Family Wilderness and Nature Programs on Northern California Coast 2012 Program Offerings	Coyote Tracks, Wilderness Skills Institute's E-Newsletter. For Updates About Our Youth Wilderness and Nature Programs join Coyote Tracks, Wilderness Skills Institute's informative e-newsletter. It also contains wild craft projects, wilderness safety, native plants, and animal tracking sections to better connect your family to the nature of the Pacific North Coast. The kids get in the car after school or soccer and never tell me about their day, but the kids are on such a high after a day or a week with you, animated telling me all the cool stuff they are doing and learning. Mother of Kate
All of Our Programs Are... Our home-school, after-school, weekend camps, winter, spring and summer camps are experiential learning in nature and many are a total immersion wilderness experience. Our wilderness immersion programs focus on the Core Routines of Deep Nature Connection, finding and going past the edges of their comfort zones, rites of passage, being members of community, music, stewardship of the land, and supervised but undirected free play. You will find in-depth discussion on these topics on our About Us page. This is not a part time "job" for college students, our mentoring staff are professionals following their life's passion; they have years of training and skills in their subject areas as well as in 8 Shields Cultural Mentoring. Parents say “It feels like the mentors are aunts, uncles, and grandparents modeling skills we wish they could have learned as kids.” Kids say “It does not feel like camp, it does not feel like school, but doing really cool stuff with a big family.” What we hear most is “What are you doing?” “Can I try?” “You made it look easy.” “I did it! Experiential Learning Nature Connection Programs Our nature programs for the younger participants are primarily composed of undirected but supervised free play, storytelling, group nature games, and music. As the participants progress in our programs they will get exposed to more powerful core nature routines and skills. Intensive Deep Nature Connection Total Immersion Wilderness Programs Our goal is that the teens graduating from our intensive deep nature connection total immersion programs have the skills to walk into the forest with just the clothes on their backs and not only have the skills and resiliency to find material necessary to make shelter,start fire, find and make safe drinking water, feed themselves, treat ailments and injury but to thrive, become a part of nature, and enjoy the experience. Most importantly these experiences will develop in these people the common sense, the self-confidence, and the love of life they need as they move into adulthood. Academic Math and Science Our academic math and science programs offer rigorous yet in an experiential learning environment that uses the soil, plants, and animals of the wilderness, bay,gardens, farm, and ranch as our classroom and our labs to teach ecology, physics, chemistry, zoology, entomology, botany. The environment is real the problems that the students work through are real. Art, Crafts, Literature, Philosophy No matter what continent you descended from if you go back far enough we all descended from indigenous people living in nature, feeding, clothing, and sheltering themselves with plants and animals and looked to the earth, stars, sea, animals, and dreams to answer the questions. Their art, literature, and philosophy all tell their of their connection to nature. Our art classes the students make pigments using rocks, soil, minerals, and plants; paints from these pigments and milk, eggs, or just water; pots from clay from the creek, baskets from plants; the images from patterns found in nature. In our literature and philosophy classes the students read and hear the stories from elders of many cultures. Our mentors through questioning then draw out deep discussion from the students.
Home-School Wilderness and Nature Programs Wilderness Skills Institute offers a full range of programs to supplement the Home-School education for all age groups. Most of our programs are pending vender approved from Ocean Grove and FAME Charter Schools Children and Kids Home-School Nature Programs Home-School Introduction to Nature Connection for Kids -- Woodside, CA. Home-School Introduction toWilderness Connection for Kids Santa Cruz County - Session A
Home-School Introduction to Wilderness Connection for Kids/Preteen Wilderness Survival Skills, Shooting Sports, Scout Games, and Primal Crafts for Kids Santa Cruz County - Session B
Home-School Preteen Nature and Total Immersion Wilderness Programs Home-School Preteens -- Deep Nature Connection in the Santa Cruz Wilderness Home-School Preteens Primal Wilderness S kills, Tracking Skills, And Absailing Skills For Deep Nature Connection
Home-School Teen Nature and Total Immersion Wilderness Programs Home-School Teens Primal Wilderness S kills, Tracking Skills, And Absailing Skills For Deep Nature Connection Science and Math for Natural Resource Management Science and Math of Agriculture Principles and Skills of Permaculture Music in Nature Crafts from Nature Art of Nature Wilderness Potography for Teen Home-Scholars Website Development and Design For Teen Home-Scholars Teen Philosophy and Literature in Nature and Indigenous Cultures Leadership and Mentoring


After school Preteen and Teen Outdoor Recreation and Wilderness Skills Programs in Santa Cruz
Preteen and Teen Archery (NFAA Field Archery, JOAD Olympic Target Archery, and 3D) Fridays Blacksmithing and Welding Thursdays Arts and Craft Thursdays Deep Nature Connection Tuesdays
Weekend Overnight Total Immersion Wilderness and Survival Skills Programs
Pre-Teen Overnight Weekend Wilderness Skills Camps Teen Overnight Weekend Wilderness Skills Camps
Winter and Spring Break Nature and Total Immersion Wilderness and Survival Skills Programs
Kids Spring Break Nature Camps
Winter and Spring Break Kids Day Camps

Pre-Teens Winter and Spring Break
Winter and Spring Break Overnight Preteen Wilderness Camps
Teens Winter and Spring Break
Winter and Spring Break Day and Overnight Wilderness T een Camps
Summer Wilderness Camps 2012
Kids Summer camps
Kids Wilderness Day Summer Camps

Pre-Teen Summer Camps
Preteen Basic Agriculture and Wilderness Skills Day Summer Camps
Pre Teen Basic Agriculture and Wilderness Skills Overnight Summer Camps

Teen Summer Camps
Teen Introduction to Nature Skills Camps
Teen Primitive Intensive
Wilderness Skills Intensive Teen Overnight Summer Camp
4 Fires Teen Rendezvous
Teen Backpacking
Family Programs Family Camps