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GO Teach is a series of teacher workshops that focus on cross-curricular connections linked by a common outdoor recreation. These workshops aim to expose Pennsylvania’s youth to healthy lifelong physical activities while creating a sense of responsibility and stewardship to protect the natural resources of the commonwealth.

Each workshop presents a set of standards based lessons for middle and high school students that enable them to learn an outdoor recreation and then exposes them to skills, issues and background information about the recreation and the resources it depends on. As part of each workshop teachers will receive lessons, ACT 48 hours and access to loaner equipment to help incorporate outdoor recreation education into their school.

Hiking is more than putting on a pair of boots and walking in the woods. It’s a lifelong recreational activity that can increase one’s stamina, endurance and athleticism. It’s also the basis of numerous other recreations including backpacking, orienteering and geo-caching.

Learn how to enable your students to discover Penn’s Woods through an interdisciplinary set of lessons for teachers created by the PA Bureau of State Parks. Lessons focus on health, fitness and trip planning; map reading and identifying local trails; forest ecology as well as nature journaling. The lessons meet several Physical Education & Health standards as well as standards for Geography, Science & Ecology and the Humanities. 

The cost for the workshop is $20. Pre-registration is required, and can be done by contacting Beth Garner at 814-674-1000 x105 or princeprogramssp@pa.gov by May 12.

­­­­­­­Remember that the outdoors are for everyone so please contact us if you may need accommodations to participate in a program. We will do our best to meet your needs.