Majors: By Category | Alphabetically
Minors: By Category | Alphabetically
Ages 10+
Kids race through challenges in teams of two—challenges include the monkey bridge, zip line, alligator pit, jungle swing and mud mountain—and trying to beat their own best time. Students will get very dirty and must wear secure closed toed shoes.
Read MoreAll Day Major • Ages 8-12
This class is for younger students interested in learning survival skills. The focus of this class will be to learn experientially as we discover our innate woods wisdom and deepen our relationship with ourselves, one another and the earth. We will make fires by rubbing sticks together, learn shelters, how to purify water, basic tracking and practice awareness exercises. We will be spending time immersed in nature, playing in the creek and learning about the local flora and fauna.
Read MoreAll Day Major • Ages 12+
This class is for older students interested in learning or fine tuning survival skills. We will practice skills such as fire, shelter, cordage and tracking while immersing ourselves in the woods of the farm with awareness practices and games. We will learn natural camouflage and rely on the interdependence of the class community as we learn how to stalk animals and move across the landscape quietly without disturbance.
Read MoreAll Day Major • Ages 13+
More than a game, Coyote Warriors builds upon a foundation of athletics to teach young people about teamwork, conflict, work ethic, awareness and maintaining a healthy mind and body. This course is about building confidence in teens. By facing hard work and struggle in a fun environment, we equip students with tools to better prepare for work and school beyond nature’s classroom. Coyote Warriors relies upon an ancestral understanding of team sports blended with modern science and a hint of the spiritual. It is a chance to escape the contemporary world, examine ourselves in nature, and return to the challenges of modern life with new training for adulthood. Ironically, these lofty ideals are achieved through not trying too hard, from the ground up . . . from a foundation that starts with lots of running and team rivalry. Please note, scholarships are not available for this class.
Read MoreAges 11 +
Come explore some of the older ways of cooking, processing foods, foraging, processing wild game, using plant dyes, making lip balm, candles, homemade kites and fermentation.
Read MoreAges 7–11
Have you ever wondered if fairies, gnomes, Bigfoot or other mythological creatures really exist? In this class we believe! Campers will spend the week exploring the many mythological creatures that live deep in the forest. Students will make art in clay, painting and found objects. They will also learn basic skills of tracking, camouflage and wild edible herbs through games and stories. Of course, camp wouldn’t be complete without some games, songs and creating a mythological creature of their own.
Read MoreAges 7-11
Fish, Birds, Bugs, Bones and Boulders! Every day is an adventure! Spend Monday with John James Audubon catching, drawing and banding migrating birds. Tuesday we will meet Charles Darwin and catch bugs, explore geology and evolution. Wednesday is a day of fishing with Louis Agassiz. Thursday we will track animals, learn medicinal herbs, play Native Games and eat wild plants with Meriwether Lewis. Friday we will put it all together publishing our findings in an instant book that celebrates the wild life of the Sun Foundation!
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