Outdoor Education
YMCA Camp Manitou-Lin's Outdoor Education Program provides the opportunity for students to learn in a natural, beautiful setting. While at Manitou-Lin, students work to gain a better appreciation of the wonders of the environment that surrounds them. Students also learn about relating to one another and being a member of a community through activities that promote teamwork and communication. Our goals are:

• Our educational curriculum is designed to be a hands-on way to learn solid educational topics. All activities are to be viewed as a path to help your group meet their educational objectives. We believe a students hands-on experience is the best teacher.
• We recognize students are faced with a lot of hard challenges today. We hope to help students deal with issues such as respect, trust, and responsibility. Camp Manitou-Lin has partnered with the Search Institute to work on helping students acquire many of the developmental assets needed to grow up healthy, caring, and responsible.
• Students have fun at camp while participating in team building exercises, singing, horseback riding, climbing, canoeing and challenging themselves on the high ropes course. We believe, that while students are at camp having fun, values and learning can be "caught" in ways that differ from a traditional classroom.

Outdoor Education Curriculum
We can custom design a program to help meet your educational needs. Here are some examples of curriculum that we have developed:

Adventure and Team Building
Group Initiatives
Teams Course
Orienteering
Gold Rush
Outdoor Living Skills
Survival
The Beast
Rock Climbing
High Ropes Course
Pamper Pole
Choices and Challenges
Zip Line

Environmental Education
Forest Ecology
Insect Dissection
Birding
Populations
Water Cycle
Super Senses
Tracking
Winter Wonders
Terrific Trees

Evening Programs
Capture the Flag
Action Auction
Boof
Predator Prey
Sensory Night Hikes
Creative Dramatics
Mock Olympics
Creative Problem Solving
Stock Exchange

Living History
Pioneering
Fur Trade
Woodland Ways
Lumbering

Recreation Classes
Archery
Horse Sense
Horseback Riding
Canoeing/Kayaking
Snowshoeing

Teacher's Planning Guide, Sample Schedule & Testimony
Our Teacher's Planning Guide will help you with all the details you need to make your Outdoor Education program a success. Download teacher planning guide.

Check out our sample schedule that will help you know what to expect. Download a sample schedule.

Do you want to hear what other teachers have to say about YMCA Camp Manitou-Lin's Outdoor Education programs? Download our comment sheet.

To find out more about YMCA Camp Manitou-Lin's Outdoor Education Program, please call us at 888-909-2267, ext 9224 or e-mail at kdenman@grymca.org. We are willing to come and meet with you to help design a program suited for your school.