What's best, as I've come to learn with experience, is that expeditions don't have to be as big and scary as some people make them out to be. Travelers can push themselves beyond their comfort zones by experiencing new cultures and participating in exhilarating activities without sacrificing home comforts.
Traveling on an expedition ship allows for delicious food, a warm shower, and guides to help you realize the experience to its absolute fullest. In the resort complex, convenience can outstrip culture, which can make it difficult for travelers to be part of local life. Expedition travel removes those barriers and allows for you to experience a world quite different from the one you normally exist in.
With a company like Lindblad, travelers are given unparalleled access to local culture and history. In Alaska, for example, you can walk the Haida Gwaii archipelago while hear firsthand about the Tlingit and Haida tribes' ceremonies and way of life. On my first big expedition, ringing anyone involved finding a convenient hill and standing very still for up to ten minutes while the satellite phone tried to get a signal.
Finding cell service is often a chore and, most of the time, it's not worth bothering with it. Disconnecting is an immensely freeing, perhaps even addictive, feeling. We check our cell phones on average every 12 minutes — 80 times a day. This gives your brain space to recharge from the pressures of being constantly connected and allows you to work more on being present in the moment-to-moment experiences of the trip you're on.
Going on adventures is one of the most powerful methods of making lasting friendships. Over the course of one particular trip, I spent six months with a friend, rarely more than 10 ft away from them at any one time. Of course such an experience was particularly intense —and we had a fair share of arguments along the way — but it was an incredible shared adventure. Whether you're spending months or weeks with the same people, the lasting bond you create is inevitable.
You'll create many vivid and shared memories, resulting in friendships that often go the deepest and last the longest. Over the course of my expeditions, I have spent a considerable amount of time living in and journeying through the outdoors. Such moments are unique and vivid and connect you right back with the natural world, reinforcing the importance of nature that sometimes we are liable toforget when stuck in the urban jungle.
Brainstorm ideas about exploration. Give each group a marker and a sheet of butcher paper with one of these questions on each paper: Why do people explore? What places have you explored? What did you learn? What places would you like to explore in or near your city or town? What places would you like to explore in your home country? What places would you like to explore outside of your country? Have students mark their favorite ideas. Analyze past vs. Discuss the difference between exploration and expeditions.
Analyze the reasons behind present-day expeditions. Have students answer these three questions in a paragraph for each: What is the purpose of this blue holes expedition? What do you think the scientists want to accomplish? What additional reasons do they have for why they explore? How is the Blue Hole Expedition different than historical explorations? Hint: think about available technology and scientific advancements as well as purpose.
Informal Assessment Have students summarize in writing their ideas for the questions in Step 4. Learning Objectives Students will: list and assess ideas for why people explore, historically and currently brainstorm ideas for their own explorations analyze the purpose behind a Bahamas expedition. Teaching Approach Learning-for-use. Teaching Methods Brainstorming Discussions Multimedia instruction.
Standard 8 : Students use a variety of technological and informational resources e. Resources Provided The resources are also available at the top of the page. Background Information Exploration has a broad definition but can be considered travel over new territory—undiscovered or new to the explorer—for adventure or discovery, or looking at something in a careful way to learn more about it.
Prior Knowledge None. Recommended Prior Activities None. Vocabulary expedition. Tip Students can research citizen science opportunities that align with their exploration interests. Media Credits The audio, illustrations, photos, and videos are credited beneath the media asset, except for promotional images, which generally link to another page that contains the media credit. Media If a media asset is downloadable, a download button appears in the corner of the media viewer.
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Learn at Home: Grades View Collection. Highlights included a wonderful trek in the Atlas Mountains, tour of Marrakesh and the camel ride and beach clean in Essaouira. I would highly recommend this tour to those studying Economics, Geography and Business.
This was the most ambitious trip I have led, but all went smoothly as result of the top class preparation, planning and execution by all elements of the STC team.
I know Jake looks back on the whole experience as a stepping stone to more travel, adventure and life changing challenges.
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