Weeks

Tips  

Content  

Topics

Practical

1

Directions

Constellations,

Compass - magnets

Physics

2&3

Staying warm

Starting a fire with: reflections (focusing)

Lenses

Energy can not be created or destroyed only converted

Elements (sodium)

Friction (sticks)

What fire needs, horse shoe fungi

When to eat the most food? (Night time, majorty of calories are spent keeping your body warm)

Talk about enzyme, functioning optimum temperature

Physics - Lenses, focusing light

Energy forms

Chemistry, Period table

Alkali metals

4&5

Getting Water

Modern techniques (Soldiers)

Lost at sea, why is salt water bad?

Urine to drinkable water

Filtration techniques  

          charcoal, sand and grass

Water purification tablets

6

Weapons

Spears, bows and arrows, boomerangs

Airo dynamic designs, string tension, kentic energy.

Poison on tips

Effects on nervous system

Aboriginal hunting

7&8

Rock climbing

Traps

Pullies, leaver systems

Guitar string,

Rat traps

9&10

Building

Shelter

boats

Building shelter

Building a boat

Sleeping

Structures

11&12

Food gathering

Poisonous plants

Ecosystems

Food chains

Food webs

Mould fungi

Raison packs, dehydration

Storing food.

13

Poisonous  animals  

Evolution, adaptation

Structural, physiological  etc.

Bodies use of carbs, protein, lipids

14&15

Bush medicine

Aboriginal

Cut: how to sterilise a wound, raw carb apples

Pineresent - antiseptic

Tanic acid - acorn, oac bar - anti-diuretic

Diurectic - rose hips , dandilien tea

Dock leaves - anti- itchy

Inner bark of willow tree- pain killer

16

Signalling

Pascing fresh vegiation over fire = smoke

Making smoke

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Test out your abilities

Take this kids camping, set up activities to test the boys knowledge through out the course. Filtering water, Starting controlled fires,  etc…

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