Water
"Incredible Water Journey" (Identify the movement of water within the water cycle; review the three states of matter: solid, liquid, & gas; water transitions between these states)
"Create a Solar Still" (Review the water cycle; create a solar still to capture water; here's how to create a solar still at home.)
"Filter Water from Vernal Pools" (Purification of vernal pool water)
"Vernal Pools and Pond Organisms" (Look for living organisms in vernal pools and ponds)
Food
"Set Traps" (Use corn as bait to set live traps in the woods)
"Make a Fishing Pole" (Use a long stick, piece of hawthorn, piece of natural fiber, such as raffia, & a worm to create a pole)
"Fish" (Test out your pole from the banks of the river)
"Poisionous Plant Recognition" (Recognize buckthorn, poison ivy, and & highbush cranberry)
"Animal Tracks Identification" (In a survival situation, it's important to be able to recognize the tracks of animals to hunt)
"Food Chain Game" (Create food chains; for example: sun --> grass --> rabbit --> fox --> hunter)
Weather, Fire & First-Aid
"Observe the Weather" (In a survival situation, it's important to keep an eye to the sky)
"Four Types of Clouds" (We used cattail seeds to create images of these four types of clouds: cumulus, stratus, cirrus, & cumulonimbus.)
"Fire Building" (Can you start a fire using only natural materials, a metal pan, and one match?)
"First-Aid" (What do you include in a first-aid kit? Can you recognize the symptoms of hypothermia, heat stroke, etc?)