Ticks! Ticks! and more Ticks!
MINIMUM amount of tick checks in a day
Three
The act of leaving a space better than it was found and implementing practices for respecting the wildlife that inhabit it
LNT or LIB
Where do your personal car keys go during course?
In the keys bin
Get the entire group balanced on the platform without letting either end of the platform touch the ground
Whale Watch
A practice used to bring everyone together where everyone can be seen and heard
Circling Up
What should be kept between you and where you sit/sleep?
Barrier of some sort
Three things that must be accessible if a stove is in use
fire extinguisher, sand, or water
What are the camp speed limits?
10 inside a camp, and 2o around the rez
Group must escape from the cave before the Brown Recluse Spider returns for lunch. Any contact with the web will summon the spider immediately.
Spider Web
We do this before and after all elements, initiatives, and pretty much everything!
Framing and Debriefing
What do you do if you find an embedded tick?
Call the CD, remove it, circle the spot, save the tick, get checked out, fill out an incident report
How we wash dishes in the woods
What is the timeframe for a participant being lost/alone
if their whereabouts is unknown for 20+ minutes
To pass everyone through the hole to safety.
Porthole
when we give students the time to thing, reflect, and consider the lessons learned on the course
Solo
Preventative measures for ticks
wear light colors, tuck pants into socks and/or boots, and spray clothing at openings (ankles, wrists and waist) regularly with a repellent that contains DEET and avoid areas of prime habitat
The three ways we cook/prepare food on course
Trangia stoves, Coleman/propane stove, and fire
What is the address to sharpe?
Sharpe Reservation
436 Van Wyck Lake Rd
Fishkill, NY 12524
To get each person in the crew to swing from one platform to the other without touching the ground.
Nitro Crossing
These are problem-solving tasks or games; they call upon group members to bring their physical, emotional and intellectual selves to bear on difficult tasks that have no ready-made solutions.
Initiatives
Types of ticks (name at least 2)
Black legged ticks (deer ticks)
Lone star ticks
American dog ticks
asian long horned ticks
What to do if theres a bat?
Call your CD
Name the 5 NYCOBS Core Values
Community, courage, equity, integrity, learning
Everywhere you look, everywhere you go
There's a heart (there's a heart), a hand to hold onto
Everywhere you look, everywhere you go
There's a face of somebody who needs you
Everywhere you look
Full House
A set of guidelines describing how members of a team agree to interact during the time they are together
Full Value Contract or Group Agreements