At California State University, Fresno, all incoming students take a full-semester, three-unit course that includes topics on academic preparation but also focuses on issues and topics commonly associated with experiential and adventure education. These areas include communication, listening, teamwork, and problem-solving skills. Recognizing the…

Experiential activities provide each participant with the ability to see, feel, and experience whatever therapeutic issue the facilitator is addressing, and usually much more. This paper presents experiential activities to address the 12 steps of recovery adopted from Alcoholics Anonymous. These 12 steps are used worldwide for many other recovery…

This paper discusses how the Career Services Office at Allegheny College has shifted its emphasis over the last five years to programming related to internships. Although the office has not stopped providing the career counseling, resume critiques and on-campus interview schedules that are traditionally provided by career services offices, all new…

The field of experiential education can be enhanced through the use of meditation. The vision statement of the Association for Experiential Education includes the aim of creating a just and compassionate world. This goal can be approached one person at a time by encouraging each individual in the field to become a just and compassionate person.…

The goals, objects, materials and grade levels are specified in this description of a laboratory activity involving analytic geometry concepts. Students mark out bicycle gymkhana courses in which directions to participants are given by Cartesian coordinates. (JP)

A series of activities are presented on worksheets marked off with lattice points (like a geoboard). Students are led to discover and apply Pick's Theorem for finding the area of a polygon whose vertices are lattice points. (JP)

Discusses children's concept of number and number operations and describes activities which help to develop number concepts and skills. (JP)

Describes how children incorporated the work tasks of a baker into several subject areas which culminated in a bakeshop, recipe booklets, and good cookies. (MM)

Examples of units being implemented in Associated Schools in eight countries focusing on international understanding are described. The units have as a broad goal the development of the relationships between self understanding and acceptance and the understanding of personal, social, economic, and political relationships at all levels of society.…

Describes a Resource Recovery Educational Program Kit,'' a multi-disciplinary, multi-media package aimed at the 7-9 grade level. (Author)