Home School Field Trips

Experiential Learning Programs: STEM/Environmental Education/Wilderness Skills

Our adventure activities pair perfectly with our outdoor environmental education programs! We have designed hands-on programs with North Carolina and South Carolina state standards and outdoor survival skills in mind,  but they can be tailored to cover your homeschool group’s goals and standards. Our program staff has decades of education and experience in experiential education with Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in the field. So we are excited to create an immersive learning experience for your students that encourages curiosity, teamwork, and fun!

Home school discount day program options include: 

• Ready. Set. Go Physics!  Students will get to see the physics of zip lining and ropes courses up close and in action. Using small-scale models to show how gravity, weight, friction, and other forces affect the motion of zipliners, students will get to experiment in a controlled environment.   Add this to our Treetops Park or Ziplines so that students can experiment with and experience physics in action! 1-2 hours  NC & SC standards: NC 5.P.1, 7.P.1, 7.P.2, Psc.1.1, Phy.1.1, Phy.1.2; SC 4.S.1, 5.P.5, 6.P.3, 8.P.2, 8.P.3, H.P.2, H.P.3

• Trees & Me Ecology gives students an inside look at plants, and how they interact with other living and nonliving things in their environment. This ecology-based class offers hands-on learning for students to get to know trees up close and personal through tree identification, decomposition exploration, and a guided sensory hike to experience nature among our 100 acres of property. 1-2 hours  NC & SC standards: NC 5.L.2., 6.L.1, 6.L.2, 7.L.2, 8.L.1, 8.L.3, Bio.2.1; SC 4.L.5, 5.L.4, 6.L.5, 7.L.3, 7.EC.5, H.B.3, H.B.6
  
  
• Wilderness/Outdoor Survival Skills teaches students what is essential in a survival situation.  Whether it is learning to build a primitive shelter, how to build & start a fire using primitive materials, or what items are truly essential for an outdoor outing, students will have a blast working together to “survive” in the woods! While also learning about “Leave No Trace” principles, students will practice some essential outdoor ethics. 1-3 hours
  
  
• In our Lost & Found Orienteering program, students will learn how to use a topographic map and compass, then apply those skills to our orienteering course. Students then will work in small groups to navigate themselves to victory.  So with a little teamwork, they then go home with skills they can use in real life.  1-3 hours

Team Building Low Ropes Facilitated Programs– are custom-created fun and competitive experiences designed to instill confidence, cooperation, communication, and connection between group members. Our facilitated programs with experienced instructors focus on active interactions designed for guests to step outside of typical comfort zones while collaborating to accomplish group goals. We highlight the potential strengths of task completion and the challenges of processes such as communication, group decision making, and task sharing/delegation. Our programs are fun, engaging, challenging, sometimes frustrating, thought-provoking, and personally enlightening. Whether you want to spend 1-hour playing fun team bonding games to get your team warmed up or a half or full day of goal-driven facilitated programs, we can create the team-building experience you are looking for. Your students will walk away knowing more about themselves and each other, and hopefully, apply the skills they learn to their lives.

Reservations are REQUIRED, please call group sales at
828.450.3400 or groups@adventurecenterofasheville.com

Home school discount day programs are offered to groups of 10 students or more. Adventure Discounts are only available on weekdays during the available dates when we are open.

Our activities instill personal development and self-confidence, encourage cooperation with others,
enrich problem-solving skills, and offer fun outdoor activities with a challenge.