Recently, the Lincoln Roosevelt Sixth Graders had the opportunity to participate in a two-day environmental and team-building trip at Camp Spears-Eljabar in Dingman’s Ferry, Pennsylvania. This Team Related Environmental Experience (TREE Trip) is designed to stimulate in the students an awareness of their environment and to sharpen their powers of observation, while incorporating appropriate socialization skills.
The TREE Trip’s main purposes are to develop thinking and arouse curiosity while incorporating appropriate socialization skills. The instructors at Camp Spears-Eljabar encourage the students to find many answers to the questions, which they themselves raise. This process encourages many of the students to do their own research, as well as give them a chance to teach others.
According to Mrs. Audrey Wallock, Assistant Principal of Lincoln Roosevelt School, “Our trips are an attempt to inspire an appreciation for our natural resources, to arouse an accompanying desire to conserve them, to foster effective methods for scientific investigation, and to motivate students to transfer their environmental enthusiasm to other subject areas.”