Home School Program
Our custom-designed homeschool outdoor education programs bring experiential learning directly to your group, fostering deep connections with the natural world through hands-on skill-building, sensory awareness, and place-based discovery. Whether you're looking for a single enrichment day, a weekly series, or an immersive week-long intensive, each program is tailored to your group's age range, interests, and learning goals.
Drawing from core outdoor education disciplines, fire craft, earth living skills, seasonal ecology, wildlife tracking, plant identification, and nature connection practices, we create age-appropriate curricula that balance skill progression with wonder and play. Programs emphasize experiential learning, group collaboration, and building confidence in outdoor settings while adapting to seasonal conditions and your homeschool community's unique needs.
Program Format Options
Single Day Programs (3-6 hours)
Perfect for introducing a specific skill set or theme, one-day programs offer immersive, focused learning experiences. Examples include fire-making fundamentals, seasonal plant ID, or shelter-building workshops. These standalone sessions provide memorable hands-on learning without long-term commitment. These programs can also have a more scientific approach where we look at the natural world through a more ecological lens and use games and hands-on learning to start to learn and interact with larger scene topics.
Weekly Series (4-6 weeks)
Our weekly program series allow for skill progression and deeper relationship-building with both the land and your learning community. Meeting once per week for 2-6 hours, students develop competency through repeated practice while exploring complementary themes. The weekly rhythm can help to support accommodating other homeschool activities and commitments.
Week-Long Intensives (3-5 consecutive days)
Immersive multi-day programs create transformative outdoor learning experiences. Daily sessions of 4-6 hours allow students to fully inhabit the rhythms of outdoor education—building skills cumulatively, developing routines with the land, and forming strong peer connections. Week-long formats are ideal for groups wanting concentrated skill-building or seasonal exploration.
Example Curriculum Themes
Programs can focus on single disciplines or integrate multiple areas based on your group's interests:
Fire & Hearth Skills: Progressive fire-making from matches to friction methods, fire safety, outdoor cooking, and campfire culture
Seasonal Ecology: Plant identification, phenology, foraging ethics, and understanding nature's cycles
Earth Living Skills & Bushcraft Skills: Cordage making, shelter building, tool use, natural materials processing
Nature Connection Practices: Sit spots, sensory awareness, journaling, solo time, and observation skills
Beginners Tracking & Wildlife Awareness: Reading animal signs, track identification, understanding wildlife behavior and habitat
Stewardship & Place: Understanding local ecosystems, responsible outdoor ethics, and developing reciprocal relationships with the land
Program Structure & Approach
Each session follows an intentional rhythm designed to support the transition from everyday life into outdoor learning. We begin with arrival activities that ground the group, move into focused skill-building and exploration, and close with reflection and integration. This structure builds community, maintains engagement, and honors the developmental needs of learners.
Throughout all programs, we adapt to weather conditions, seasonal opportunities, and group dynamics while maintaining our commitment to outdoor learning in all seasons. Safety protocols, appropriate gear recommendations, and clear communication ensure that families feel confident and prepared. Students develop not only practical outdoor skills but also resilience, confidence, and a lasting sense of wonder in the natural world.
Getting Started
Custom programs are designed collaboratively with homeschool families and group leaders. We'll discuss your group's size, age range, experience level, location preferences, seasonal timing, and learning objectives to create a program that serves your community's unique vision for outdoor education.
Contact us to begin designing your homeschool group's outdoor education experience.
Our custom-designed homeschool outdoor education programs bring experiential learning directly to your group, fostering deep connections with the natural world through hands-on skill-building, sensory awareness, and place-based discovery. Whether you're looking for a single enrichment day, a weekly series, or an immersive week-long intensive, each program is tailored to your group's age range, interests, and learning goals.
Drawing from core outdoor education disciplines, fire craft, earth living skills, seasonal ecology, wildlife tracking, plant identification, and nature connection practices, we create age-appropriate curricula that balance skill progression with wonder and play. Programs emphasize experiential learning, group collaboration, and building confidence in outdoor settings while adapting to seasonal conditions and your homeschool community's unique needs.
Program Format Options
Single Day Programs (3-6 hours)
Perfect for introducing a specific skill set or theme, one-day programs offer immersive, focused learning experiences. Examples include fire-making fundamentals, seasonal plant ID, or shelter-building workshops. These standalone sessions provide memorable hands-on learning without long-term commitment. These programs can also have a more scientific approach where we look at the natural world through a more ecological lens and use games and hands-on learning to start to learn and interact with larger scene topics.
Weekly Series (4-6 weeks)
Our weekly program series allow for skill progression and deeper relationship-building with both the land and your learning community. Meeting once per week for 2-6 hours, students develop competency through repeated practice while exploring complementary themes. The weekly rhythm can help to support accommodating other homeschool activities and commitments.
Week-Long Intensives (3-5 consecutive days)
Immersive multi-day programs create transformative outdoor learning experiences. Daily sessions of 4-6 hours allow students to fully inhabit the rhythms of outdoor education—building skills cumulatively, developing routines with the land, and forming strong peer connections. Week-long formats are ideal for groups wanting concentrated skill-building or seasonal exploration.
Example Curriculum Themes
Programs can focus on single disciplines or integrate multiple areas based on your group's interests:
Fire & Hearth Skills: Progressive fire-making from matches to friction methods, fire safety, outdoor cooking, and campfire culture
Seasonal Ecology: Plant identification, phenology, foraging ethics, and understanding nature's cycles
Earth Living Skills & Bushcraft Skills: Cordage making, shelter building, tool use, natural materials processing
Nature Connection Practices: Sit spots, sensory awareness, journaling, solo time, and observation skills
Beginners Tracking & Wildlife Awareness: Reading animal signs, track identification, understanding wildlife behavior and habitat
Stewardship & Place: Understanding local ecosystems, responsible outdoor ethics, and developing reciprocal relationships with the land
Program Structure & Approach
Each session follows an intentional rhythm designed to support the transition from everyday life into outdoor learning. We begin with arrival activities that ground the group, move into focused skill-building and exploration, and close with reflection and integration. This structure builds community, maintains engagement, and honors the developmental needs of learners.
Throughout all programs, we adapt to weather conditions, seasonal opportunities, and group dynamics while maintaining our commitment to outdoor learning in all seasons. Safety protocols, appropriate gear recommendations, and clear communication ensure that families feel confident and prepared. Students develop not only practical outdoor skills but also resilience, confidence, and a lasting sense of wonder in the natural world.
Getting Started
Custom programs are designed collaboratively with homeschool families and group leaders. We'll discuss your group's size, age range, experience level, location preferences, seasonal timing, and learning objectives to create a program that serves your community's unique vision for outdoor education.
Contact us to begin designing your homeschool group's outdoor education experience.
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