School Programs
Invite Robin Bliss-Wagner to bring nature connection and primitive technology to your school.
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Hands-On Presentations will be introduced with stories followed by orientation. Then students will rotate through stations and participate in ancestral skills such as practicing fire-by-friction, felting, ancient hunting tools, animal tracking, and making rope. Teachers can choose which skills are present. These skills relate to common subjects like Botany, Biology, Zoology, Early American and World History, Geology, and more, and can provide a hands-on component to some abstract concepts or histories.
Class Trips Bring Robin as a guide on your class trip and besides the skills mentioned above, nature will come to the fore with sensory awareness activities, games that teach natural history, and guided walks.
Storytelling Hear about living in the "Stone Age" during modern times. Hiking handmade buckskin clothing, cooking in clay pots, subsisting exclusively on wild foods, and experiencing nature without plastic, rubber, or peanut butter in hand for weeks in a row. Also hear inspiring stories that teach nature awareness and skills, such as visiting the Nharo Bushmen in Botswana, who still retain their original hunter gatherer knowledge, herding sheep in Arizona and solo trips in the Sierras with minimal gear to observe wildlife up close.
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- Hands-On Presentation
- Class Trips
- Storytelling
Hands-On Presentations will be introduced with stories followed by orientation. Then students will rotate through stations and participate in ancestral skills such as practicing fire-by-friction, felting, ancient hunting tools, animal tracking, and making rope. Teachers can choose which skills are present. These skills relate to common subjects like Botany, Biology, Zoology, Early American and World History, Geology, and more, and can provide a hands-on component to some abstract concepts or histories.
Class Trips Bring Robin as a guide on your class trip and besides the skills mentioned above, nature will come to the fore with sensory awareness activities, games that teach natural history, and guided walks.
Storytelling Hear about living in the "Stone Age" during modern times. Hiking handmade buckskin clothing, cooking in clay pots, subsisting exclusively on wild foods, and experiencing nature without plastic, rubber, or peanut butter in hand for weeks in a row. Also hear inspiring stories that teach nature awareness and skills, such as visiting the Nharo Bushmen in Botswana, who still retain their original hunter gatherer knowledge, herding sheep in Arizona and solo trips in the Sierras with minimal gear to observe wildlife up close.