Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
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Abstract
How can a retired U.S. Postal Service worker connect high school students to the outdoors and get them involved with home community environmental awareness and improvement projects? Recent research findings suggest fewer of today's teenagers value the natural environment as strongly as young people did twenty years ago. It appears athletics, music, dance, theatrics, video games and I pods dominate after school time for most students. "No problem," said grandfather Doug Thornton. Find a few students with at least a spark of interest in the outdoors, start an after school Sportsman's Club and see if the sparks can be fanned into some flames. That is just what Thornton, an upstate New York retired postal service worker and substitute teacher, did for the Spencer VanEtten Central School District in the spring of 2012.
Recommended Citation
Yaple, Charles
(2013)
"Students Afield and Stream,"
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education: Vol. 22:
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2, Article 3.
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https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/taproot/vol22/iss2/3