!Q—Lancaster Farming. Saturday, April 27, 1974
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From Local Ag Teachers:
The article this week was
prepared by Clifford Day,
teacher . of agriculture at
Garden Spot High School.
A NEW WAY
OF LEARNING
The dates of April 18 and 19
of this year may stand out as
two of the most interesting
days of school to students at
Garden Spot High School.
Students in grades 9 through
12, totaling 1200, embarked
on activities that they might
not have an opportunity to
participate in again. Mc-
Caskey calls their program
Life Week. Garden Spot calls
their program SEAK-
Students in Education for the
Advancement of Knowledge.
The stated purposes of the
program were: to offer
educational and recreational
experiences which students
believe to be relevant; to
open new avenues of lear
ning to students; to better
student-teacher relation
ships by placing them
together in an educational
environment; and to bring
the school in a closer union
with the community.
There were about 50 ac
tivities sponsored by 80
faculty members of the
Thoughts
in Passing
school ranging from gour
met cooking to fire fighting,
to study of local government,
overnight hiking and
horseback riding. Students
were given the opportunity
to add other interest areas if
advisors could be found. The
sign up for different ac
tivities took place one period
early in March. Most
students were placed in their
first or second choice. The
size of groups were limited
based on the nature of the
activity to 15-18 students
Once the students had made
their choices, the groups
were allowed time together
to plan the finer points of
their activity.
Activity No. 6 was
described as a Horse Trail
Ride with Overnight Ex
cursion and I was the
sponsor. Our activity called
for prior planning. On
Wednesday evening all the
equipment that would be
needed for the overnight
excursion was taken to the
school and then trucked to
the place of destination, a
distance of about 22 miles
from the starting point.
Equipment, sleeping bags,
food for human and feed for
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horses was all hauled to our
destination point. We
planned to ride as light as
possible. Boys having a long
distance to travel brought
their horses to the beginning
point on Wednesdey evening
or early Thursday morning.
Early Thursday morning
before most students were in
school (actually 7:15 A.M.),a
group of 16 headed for the
Horse Shoe Trail. A beautiful
day to begin a trail ride and a
beautiful day to see nature
was before us. Chirping
birds, budding trees, wild
flowers and flying fish
displayed the signs of a
beautiful spring day. The
experiences that were
gained by the group working
together and the feeling of
just being out close to nature
can never be measured by
pen or pencil. The learning
processes worked as much
as if students were in school,
but the environment made
learning much more en
joyable;
When the sun was still high
in the sky, we arrived at our
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thin some sore bodies and
tired horses. The students
were responsible for the
preparation of meals and
undertook the project with
unmatched zeal. Cooking
proved to be a different
experience for most of the
boys and the first 7 ' meal
could testify to that fact.
Breakfast. was a better
experience as the cooks had
some prior experience in the
kitchen.
On Friday, the trail
ride was more realistic as
the group had the ill fate of
riding in a windy, freezing
downpour of rain. Although
the boys were dampened
physically, the rain did not
dampen their pioneering
spirit to complete a ride
that had been planned for
months. When the weather
got so cold that it was dif
ficult to hold the reins in your
hands, a fire was started. As
two of the boys were eager to
warm themselves, they
forgot some horse sense and
neglected to tie their horses.
One experience that was not
planned or appreciated was
running after the loose
horses. Within three hours
after catching the horses,
our somewhat bedraggled
band were back at our
starting point.
The experiences gained on
this particular trip were
valuable. There is no way
whereby a day, or a week, or
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a month in a classroom could -
match those experiences or
the learning that took place
on those two days. In the
short time since the SEAK
experience, most teachers
and students express the
opinion that the program
was an overwhelming
success. One individual even
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