Questing: A Guide to Creating Community Treasure HuntsUPNE, 2004 - 254 Inspired by the British pastime of letterboxing, Questing has become one of the fastest growing recreational-educational activities on this side of the Atlantic. In scores of communities, people from toddlers and teens, parents and grandparents follow maps, clues, and rhyming riddles seeking treasure boxes hidden in natural and cultural locations. In this book, two experts in community education explain how individuals and organizations can create and organize permanent quests to foster place-based education, stewardship, adventure, and fun. In the process of undertaking quests participants celebrate and strengthen community life by forging lifelong connections to the distinct landscapes and cultural features of their home ground. This book is intended to offer inspiration and practical advice for parents, teachers, community group leaders, and others interested in learning about where they live and building community ties through questing. |
Spis treści
PlaceBased Education | 1 |
The Joy of Treasure Hunts | 9 |
The Story of Questing | 15 |
The Spirit of a Place | 29 |
Choosing a Quest Route and site | 51 |
Varieties of Quests | 63 |
Notes for Teachers | 93 |
Out in the Field | 95 |
Researching Your Place | 114 |
Writing Clues | 137 |
Making Maps | 159 |
Treasure Boxes Stamps and SignIn Books | 177 |
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Questing: A Guide to Creating Community Treasure Hunts Delia Clark,Steven Glazer Widok fragmentu - 2004 |
Questing: A Guide to Creating Community Treasure Hunts Delia Clark,Steven Glazer Podgląd niedostępny - 2006 |
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89 Treasure Hunts activities Antioch New England beaver building cemetery choose collect community members compass rose Cornish Courtesy of Valley create cultural dances Dartmoor David Sobel drawings elements example explore Fairlee field focus forest George Knox Gilbert Fox goals Green Trail Quests Hampshire hidden Hill land landscape Letterboxing letters live look Lyme map and clues maple natural once oral history Park Photograph by Simon Piermont place-based education pond Quest box Quest map Quest program Questers questions Questmakers rhyme River road rock Route sense of place settlement share sign-in book Simon Brooks spot stamp story sure teach Ted Levin Thetford Center things town treasure box tree Upper Valley Valley Quest Vermont village visitors Vital Communities walk West Fairlee Woodstock Woodstock Village word writing
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