Combining River Rafting and Learning

We have a lot of guides who are teachers and a lot of school groups that raft with us year after year. All of them are saying the same thing, "It's getting harder and harder to get approval and funding from the school board to take trips that are purely for fun." Trips that have an educational component are much more readily agreed to by both the school boards and parents. We can certainly see the reason for this and we want to be able to provide trips that meet the goals and curriculum of our school groups to assist them in getting approval to take their annual rafting trips.

We are currently working on building educational "modules" that meet curriculum standards for schools in the Southeast. The idea is that we will provide materials and lesson plans for teachers planning on coming to the Rivers to raft so that they can provide an educational component to their trip. Initially we're focusing on the Chattooga River although we'd eventually like to adapt the modules to be used on all rivers.

The Chattooga region lends itself extremely well to topics such as geology, cultural history, ecology, biology, water quality, dendrology and even applied mathematics. We would love to hear from any teachers who have built their own lessons into past rafting trips or from any teachers who are considering trips for the future. We have some great ideas and the beginnings of some great lesson plans but any information that have worked in the past would be greatly appreciated! We'd also love to hear what topics would fit in well with your lesson plans for the current year.

Please email groupsales@wildwaterltd.com if you have any ideas or are interested in discussing what we already have in place.