Our Four Pillars
Team-building and Leadership -- developing these life-long skills through a variety of different activities.
Outdoor Adventure -- orienteering, geocaching, fishing, survival skills
Nature Studies -- looking at the animals and plants that call the TMS campus home
Environmental Awareness -- concentrating on current environmental issues
Outdoor Ed Courses
6th Grade
6th Environmental/Outdoor Ed: Beginning Fall 2019, Timberview will offer an Environmental/Outdoor Education exploratory class for all 8th, 7th and 6th graders. Our focus will be to Investigate, Interact and Impact the natural world we all call home. Mr. Williams, previously from PACK 741, will be teaching this exploratory. Students will be spending a good deal of time outside while they are exploring, researching and questioning.
Units of Learning
Develop your ability to communicate effectively with your classmates in small group and large group challenges
Learn how to use a compass and map to navigate the TMS campus
Survival Skills -- begin your understanding of how to survive in the wild
Animal Studies to focus on ecosystems and predator/prey relationships
Explorer Current Environmental Issues from a hands on approach
Field Trip
Orienteering off campus field trip
7th Grade
7th Environmental/Outdoor Ed :Our focus will be to Investigate, Interact and Impact the natural world we all call home. Mr. Williams, previously from PACK 741, will be teaching this exploratory. Students will be spending a good deal of time outside while they are exploring, researching and questioning.
Units of Learning
Test your teamwork skills on a variety of different team-building challenges
Learn how to orienteer using a compass and a GPS unit and Go GEOCACHING!
Create and use maps for a variety of purposes
Plan a backpacking trip
Survival Skills -- to focus on shelter water filtration and how to start a campfire
Animal Studies to focus on local birds
Leave No Trace -- Weekly Lessons on the 7 Principles of LNT
Field Trips
Neighborhood Walking Field trip to go Geocaching
Indoor Rock Climbing Field Trip at Gripstone Climbing Gym
8th Grade
8th Environmental/Outdoor Ed: Our focus will be to Investigate, Interact and Impact the natural world we all call home. Mr. Williams, previously from PACK 741, will be teaching this exploratory. Students will be spending a good deal of time outside while they are exploring, researching and questioning.
Units of Learning
Design & Implement an Environmental Public Service Project
Test your teamwork skills on the Low Ropes Course
Survival Skills -- to focus on Wilderness First Aid, Alternative Ways to Start Campfires, and Shelter Construction
Explore Human - Wildlife Interactions
Learn to Fish - Regular casting and Fly Fishing will be introduced
Design and Setup a Multistage Geocache
Field Trips
Fishing at Wolf Lake
Trip to The Wild Animal Sanctuary
Timberview Adventure Leadership Experiences (TALES)
The vision for TALES is to provide experiential, cooperative learning opportunities for 7th & 8th grade students at Timberview Middle School. The activities and experiences will develop and strengthen leadership skills within the participants. In addition, participants will be provided with outdoor adventure experiences, which will help to increase their comfort level in the great outdoors. As a part of TALES students get to go on field trips to experience the great outdoors. Past field trips have included:
Tetons Trip
Each year, 8th graders have the opportunity to take a school sponsored trip to Grand Teton National Park. Students and teacher sponsors will stay at the Teton Science School and participate in a variety of learning and outdoor activities during the course of a 3 days and 3 nights.
High Trails
High Trails is an opportunity available to all Academy District 20 sixth grade students to learn about history, geography, earth, life and space sciences in a camp-like atmosphere in an outdoor classroom.
Find out more on the Academy District 20 High Trails page.
