Program

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07:00 - 08:30 - Breakfast

08:30 – Traveling towards Mizpe–Ramon area

10:30 – 11:30 – Outdoor demonstrations: Machtesh Hatira geological site

11:45 – 12:15 -- Sde-Boker Environmental high school

12:15 - 13:15 – Lunch break

14:00 – 14:15 – Arriving at Mitzpe Ramon Inn and getting settled

14:15 – 14:30 – Coffee break

14:30 – 16:15 – Interactive sessions – Community center

A. Kristiansen: Outdoor Studies in the Sub-Arctic: How to grow robust teachers on trees!”
D. Schmidt, A. Lindau and M. Lindner: Could the experience of wilderness change attitudes towards wilderness? A design concept for an advanced training of multiplicators for pre-service teachers of geography and biology in wilderness camps
C. Ormond, D. Zandvliet, V. Elderton, B. Ford, J. Jenkins and V. Lee: Outdoor environments and environmental learning: Program experiences in a place-based teacher education course at Canadian University.
C. King: Interactive Earth science fieldwork – four examples
H. Esteves, C. Vasconcelos, I. Fernandes and D. Rodrigues: Environmental Education Fieldtrip on the left bank of the river Minho (Portugal)

16:15 – 18:15 – Free time for walking along the Machtesh promenade.

18:30 – 19:15 – Plenary session - Community center

Dr. Molly Yunker: Ideal to Real: the Transition from Perfect Settings to Imperfect Environments

19:30 - Dinner