Outdoor Survival Skills Activities and Links

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Download and print this booklet (“Wellness in Eight Dimensions) - https://www.center4healthandsdc.org/uploads/7/1/1/4/71142589/wellness_in_8_dimensions_booklet_with_daily_plan.pdf 

Read about how to create a “one-pager” - https://creativeclassroomcore.com/one-pagers-what-are-they/#what-is-a-one-pager  

Watch a video about the 2008 financial crisis - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPOv72Awo68

Wilderness First Responder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMQt3f2VgGQ 

Full Patient Assessment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQEE-G7vx6g 

Wilderness First Aid Tricks and Tips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnUQHKZqnkw 

50 Survival Tips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSitRqKIt48 

How to Make a Backpacking First Aid Kit: https://youtube.com/shorts/k3AEhF49LnE?si=3hnitMIhrArrAGBW 

How Do You Care for a Burn?: https://youtu.be/ELrT-y1nsJk

Was Nessmuk Pennsylvania’s Thoreau? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erU9ERKzGbw 

Mors Kochanski playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL15D6670F7573398F

Baden-Powell: Chief Scout of the World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXiDL2_WdYk

What Made Baden-Powell the Hero of Mafeking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZC8I6RB0n8

John Muir, the Father of America’s Parks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCr8HRxrLJM

Who was Kurt Hahn?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRlxHa73ACw

Welcome to Outward Bound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noMrKQ326ew

7 Myths About Outward Bound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEPmiZN89cs

Pocket Survival Hunting Kit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLsukgmEmg0

15 Wild Edible Plants for Bushcraft and Survival: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DMDrJ1OdGU

25 Incredible Survival Stories That Defy Logic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w42U2ALV84g

The Epic Journey of Shackleton and his Antarctic Trek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmIwipIhRq8 

Ada Blackjack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzeeSlj65rk

The Story of Juliane Koepcke: https://www.rainforestcruises.com/guides/the-story-of-juliane-koepcke

Ghinsberg Surviving the Impossible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZqjdbmyJKI 

Stuck in a Crevasse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNt0Kyv4p-Q

Cutting the Rope to Survive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M03UUXWtM0o

Joe Simpson Talks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRignD8zQ24

Trapped: Aron Ralston: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqsnrGfCRUQ

CrashCourse Sociolinguistics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of4XzrbkknM

An Intro to Sociolinguistics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cewXcWVqv0k

Language and Identity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeMZ2KqEbgc

How Languages Evolve: TedEd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWDKsHm6gTA

How Languages Die: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrGUiq3KqwA

Primo Levi, Chemist, Writer, Auschwitz Survivor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc8WPQ4HKas

The Moral Voice of Primo Levi: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kWi9i_oeaQs

Is Music Necessary for Survival? (Audio): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKGd0ivqzMM

Neanderthal Bone Flute Music: https://youtu.be/sHy9FOblt7Y 

Instrument of War: Music and the Making of America’s Soldiers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiqmC2sfq5I

Songs of Survival: Music in War and Conflict Zones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsd1NhXaog0 

The Sound of War: Using Music as Resistance to Cope with Trauma: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1zEiAUz8fw

Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUpuAvQQrC0

A Brief History of Tchaikovsky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQlCEEsF88Y

The History of Quilting in Four Minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGgFsNuvk3E

The History of Quilting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEFPJb9HqKA 

Stitching Stories: Black History Month through Quilting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYldjLm30is 

From Rags to Richness: https://youtu.be/LUma5h_Ugxk 

Underground Railroad Quilt Codes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK7ie30baqs

Black Quilting, Origins of Quilting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruyV5pC_pc8 

Uncovering Quilting History: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxgyZi-L-4o&list=PLxcth3nG0816kFOcH9Aa3RpwRPqjLY5t3 

Gee’s Bend; Quilting over Generations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVgajrK1M8U

Women Who Made Gee’s Bend Quilts are Finally Receiving Their Due: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7Os2qgG_wY

The Connection between Gee’s Bend Quilts & Michelle Obama’s Dress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-KCvy2JovI

Literary devices, definitions, and examples: https://writers.com/common-literary-devices

Bushcraft 101: A Field Guide to the Art of Wilderness Survival by Dave Canterbury

The Bushcraft Field Guide to Trapping, Gathering, and Cooking in the Wild by Dave Canterbury

Wild Food: A Complete Guide for Foragers by Roger Phillips

The NEW Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Expert Advice for Extreme Situations by Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht

Wilderness Essays by John Muir

Urban Quilting: Quilt Patterns for the Modern-Day Home by Wendy Chow

Stitching Together History: 250 Quilts Commemorating the Commonwealth of Virginia by Mary W. Kerr

South: The Endurance Expedition by Sir Ernest Shackleton

Marooned in the Arctic: The True Story of Ada Blackjack, the "Female Robinson Crusoe" by Peggy Caravantes

When I Fell from the Sky: The True Story of One Woman's Miraculous Survival by Juliane Koepcke

Every Brain Needs Music: The Neuroscience of Making and Listening to Music by Lawrence Sherman

If This Is A Man by Primo Levi