Hands On Learning

Blue Mountains Ed recognises that school excursions can't just be classroom learning in another setting. They need to provide students with experiential learning opportunities that can't be offered in the classroom.

Students will spend their time away doing, rather than just sitting and listening

During the program each student will

• Pan for gold
• Identify different qualities of gold
• Explore a replica gold mine
• Visit a working Blacksmith's shop
• Erect a miner's tent
• Construct a mud brick
  
• Play goldrush-era games
• Use a hand held weather computer
• Measure tree circumference and fern frond length in a rainforest
• See the Wollemi Pine
• Ride the world's steepest railway
• Walk a rainforest boardwalk
• Draw a field sketch of the rainforest
• Ride a cable car out of a rainforest
• See a film on a giant screen
• Abseil off a cliff
• Use a compass
• Use a trundle wheel
• Navigate an orienteering course
• Travel on the Mt Panorama race track
  
• Perform a freeze frame play

From beginning to end, Blue Mountains Ed is designed as a hands-on learning experience for students.

The package revolves around 4 key principles

• Curriculum-based
• Hands on learning
• Professional Staff
• Ease of Organisation

For more detailed information on what students do, see the program