Discover the forest with friends!
Once again we will be hosting our popular Discovery Day Camp. This youth Discovery Day Camp returns this year for ages 7-10. Join in the fun of exploring nature through a variety of outdoor activities, games and skill-building challenges. This 5 day camp will help your child discover how great the outdoors are, guided by our Outdoor Education staff. They will even get to create and take home their own pieces of nature.
Activities may include: fire and shelter building, Wolf Centre visit, Sled Dog visit、team building games and exercises.
Dates: July 27 - July 31, 2020
Duration: Day trip
Times: Daily from 9：00 am to 4: 00 pm
Price Details: Per package, per person.
Price: $200 per youth plus HST. Register online under our Summer Events!
Skill Level: Beginner
Includes: AU tools and equipment associated (与……有关的) with activities. Participants will pack their own personal loots and lunch for the day.
Parents — are you not sure what to do while your children are enjoying our camps? We have lots of opportunities for parents while their children are exploring the Forest — Campsites, Accommodations, Cookhouse, Trails, and more! Check out our Events page and see if there are other activities you would like to participate in!
Do you want to mix it up and see what else there is in Halliburton? Check our local Tourism Website and see what the community (社区)has to oiler!
I'm leaving for camp for the next seven weeks. This means no more teens life until I get back. It also means I get a break from reality, my phone, my laptop, and all social media. It's important to my mind!
My first year at summer camp was when I was 9 years old turning 10. I was excited to be in a new environment. That one year changed me forever. This brings me to today. This will be my seventh summer. I text my friends that camp created a special community for me, one close to my heart. And it taught me how to bond with people. Luckily, I got to know a "big sister"—Jane, such a great role model and cheerleader, sweet, and honest, who is now a senior in college.
This year I'm more excited because I'll join in a tradition I experienced before. I'm finally going to be a "big sister". The letter says they feel my love for camp, its tradition, and my enthusiasm. All make up what it takes to be a great role model. It was when that I realized I have to do everything to make sure my "sisters" had the best summer at camp.
Every year when I tell people about the camp, I get either crazy eyes, a look of relief or a look of "what the heck?" Either way, I smile at the response(反应). They don't understand my connection with camp. Camp is my home away from home and my outlet from reality.
I'll be busy spending each day in nature, laughing until our stomachs hurt, becoming more present with myself, having no stress, letting go, pressing the reset button, and being in my best self. Summer nineteen is going to be amazing.
A campaign (活动)is being launched to encourage children to give up 30 minutes of screen time a day to head for the great outdoors.
The newly formed Wild Network — a cooperation of nearly 400 organisations — is trying to attract teenagers away from television and computer screen and into fields, woods and parks. Organisers say that it is the UK's biggest ever campaign to reconnect children with nature and outdoor play, and that it could help improve fitness, mental(精神的)health and general well being. A documentary film, Project Wild Thing, will announce the launch at more than 50 cinemas across the UK from Friday. It looks at the increasingly weak link between children and nature.
Andy Simpson, chairman of the Wild Network, said: "The sad truth is that kids have lost touch with nature. Time spent outdoors is down, activity areas and levels are falling strongly and the ability to identify common species (物种)has been lost. "
Suggestions of how to get more time in nature include camping or racing and observing autumn colour on trees and so on. From January, the network will aim to make suggestions to politicians on how government can do more to get children muddy (沾满泥污的)and bright eyed.
This is not the first time the message of less screen, more play has been brought up. Children in the 1980s were asked to do the same by the BBC TV series Why Don't You, which somewhat confusingly called on its viewers to "switch off your TV set, and do something less boring instead".
Twenty-four trains, nine countries, 13,500 miles. They are the numbers behind the train journey one man took from Southampton in the UK to eastern China.
Roger Tyers, 37, spent a month on board trains and over $2,500 — almost three times of the cost of a return flight — to travel to the Chinese port city Ningbo for academic (学术的) research in May. It was the climate crisis, not a love of trains, that drove the sociologist to choose this hard route over a return flight. Tyers told CNN that he felt it necessary to stop flying when UN climate experts warned last year that the world has less than 11 years to avoid destructive levels of global warming.
Tyers is not the only person to avoid air travel in response to climate change. Thousands of people worldwide have publicly promised to stop flying, including teenage activist Greta Thunberg, who has encouraged youth climate protests around the world.
Activist Maja Rosen launched the "Flight Free" activity in Sweden in 2018 with the aim of encouraging 100, 000 people not to fly for one year. Although only around 14, 000 people signed the online "flightfree2019" promise, Rosen told CNN that the campaign had made more people realize the urgency of the climate crisis and motivated them to travel by train more often. Rosen, who stopped flying 12 years ago, says the collective promise helps deal with the sense of hopelessness many people feel when it comes to fighting with climate change. "One of the problems is that people feel there's no point in what you do singly. The activity is about making people realize that if we do this together, we can actually make a huge difference," she said.
Tyers calculated (计算)that his train journey to China produced almost 90% less emissions (气体排放)than a return flight.
Earth Day is coming in a week. Are you wondering what to do for Earth Day this year? Here are some suggestions.
Ask your parents to leave their cars at home. Cars, being the greatest source(来源)of air pollution, can be left at home this weekend. Other greener options are carpooling, riding a bike or walking if you want a healthier option.
Be a little dirty. No, we don't mean it that "way". Yes, saving water is extremely important. A day or two without a bath won't harm you, but it will certainly do a lot of good for our planet. A daily shower isn't a matter of health; it's a matter of comfort. Showering every day can wash away the natural oils that our skin and hair need.
Volunteer yourself. If you have the time, there are lots of opportunities out there to make contributions, for example, planting trees, cleaning a park or simply coming up with ways you can preserve(保护)mother Earth.
This is one of the most common things that people do whenever Earth Day rolls around, that is, switch off their lights. However, this is not something you should do just for a day and for only an hour.
The future of our planet is in your hands!
A. Every step counts.
B. Green-up your home.
C. This is one of the best things you can do.
D. We simply mean to say, don't take a bath.
E. Join other like-minded people in a common task.
F. Travelling by public transport is the better option.
G. Save energy by switching off all electricity points whenever they aren't in use.
That night, I was sitting in my room watching the rain hit my window. I was 1 to my Star Wars action 2 collection, dreaming of earning enough money to add Darth Vader to my new collection case. To help me make money, my father paid me to 3 with him every morning in the stadium.
Hearing the 4 ring, I raced downstairs. My mother was already at the door. Opening it, she found a poor-looking man 5 with tears running down his face. My mother, with pity, invited him in.
6 , I stole downstairs to get a better look. The 7 of the man. ，holding his head in his hands and crying, made my heart 8 I raced back upstairs and 9 my hand into my money box. Pulling 10 the half-dollar coin I had earned that day. I ran back downstairs. I walked right in. They looked at me in 11 as I quickly made my 12 over to the stranger. I quickly put the half-dollar in his hand, gave him a hug (拥抱), 13 and rail back as fast as possible. I felt embarrassed (窘迫的)but happy.
Downstairs, Mark sat quietly with tears running down his face as he 14 that coin. Finally looking up, he said, " I had thought nobody 15 For the last twenty years I have been so 16”
Mark's life changed that night. When he left our house he was ready to 17 even though he had experienced so much hardship. We received his letters every 18 in a while, knowing that he was doing fine.
My life changed that night, too as I witnessed (目击) the true power of 19. And my parents 20me for my being helpful and kind.
A child prodigy(神童)from Belgium is on course to gain a bachelor's (学士)degree at age of 9. Laurent Simons is studying electrical engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE) — (actual) a difficult course even for students of an average graduate age.
His parents, Lydia and Alexander Simons, said they had thought Laurent's grandparents were exaggerating (夸大)when they said he had a gift, but his ( teacher) soon agreed. "They noticed something very special about Laurent," said Lydia. Laurent was given test after test by (they) as they tried to work how he was talented.
While Laurent comes from a family of doctors, so far neither of his parents (receive) any explanation as to why their child prodigy is able to learn so quickly. But Lydia has her own theory (理论). "I ate a lot of fish during the pregnancy(孕期)," she joked.
The TUE has allowed Laurent to complete his course (fast) than other students. "That is not unusual," said Sjoerd Hulshof, education director of the TUE bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, in a (state). "Special students with good reasons for (do) so can arrange an adjusted (调整)schedule. In much the same way we help students participate in top sport."
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删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下面划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
