by Todd Walker
The draw knife was a hit with the students.
Cutting rounds for” incense and rub” spoons and bowls.
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Knife Use and Safety Ax Tutorial for Beginners( video below)
Outdoor Classroom Construction
Early in the school year, we decided to build an outdoor classroom. Nothing very fancy but functional for our necessitates. Students used math sciences to square areas, learned to read a tape measure( fractions ), and flogged the bamboo design together. Their welts comprised tight even through Hurricane Irma.
A lot of square lashes were tied.
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How to Confine a Square Lashing Some Musings on our Outdoor Classroom
The Science of Fire
We have a joke around school when I’m invited,” What are we doing today ?” My typical response is,” Cutting and igniting substance .” You may not get onto, but shell makes center stage in living conditions of our outdoor classroom. Learning to use attack as an instrument is prime for outdoor living and education.
Attack by Friction Double teaming the submit drill.
A hand drill coal blown into flame.
Related Attaches:
Using a Modified Bearing Block for Bow Drill Fires Tips and Tricks on Hand Drill Fires Using Thumb Straps on Hand Drill Spindles Beginner’s Guide to Bow Drill Build a Meal Plan for Fires
Fire by Spark Ignition Birthing fire from flint and steel
Practicing flint and steel ignition under situations of emergency tarp.
Related Connect:
The Burning Secret of Flint and Steel Ferro Rod Ignition
Fire by Solar Ignition Mr. Andrews displaying solar ignition
Practical Tools and Crafts Burn and Scrape Containers
This may be the most mesmerizing of all the skills students learned.
Bark Containers
Students abused Tulip Poplar( Liriodendron tulipifera) husk to craft traditional containers.
Stitching places with artificial sinew.
A grape-vine was used as the rim on this basket.
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Appalachian Berry Basket Tutorial
Hoko Knife
A simple method to insert primitive technology to students is to make a Hoko knife. This stone cutting tool was detected on the Hoko River archeological site in Washington State. A landslide destroys the native fish village about 2,700 years ago preserving artifacts of their material culture.
The flint flake squeezed in a separate stick with natural cordage.
Some were wrapped with modern cordage( tarred mariner’s pipeline ).
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Pine Pitch Glue Pine pitch, charcoal-grey, and a variety of containers to hold the glue.
Crushed charcoal added to the mix.
Heating the pitch glue low-toned and slow.
Related Tie-in:
Natural Cordage Reverse twist cordage from cattail leaves.
Cordage made from a variety of natural materials.
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Atlatl
What’s an atlatl?
A simple dart-throwing stick with a handle on one resolve and stimulus( male purpose) or socket( female resolve) on the other tip. The arrow, a adaptable pierce, mates with the spur/ socket when flip. Commonly about two paws long, an atlatl hires leverage to extend the arm’s section to spur a hurl farther and with more velocity than when thrown applying merely the arm.
Notice the crouch in the projectile rod when thrown.
She was proud of her accurate throws.
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Down N Dirty Atlatls Making Atlatl Darts
Campfire Cooking Cooking over an open fire.
Ms. Byrd experiencing s’mores before Christmas break.
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I’ve also caused a RISE Academy Playlist on our YouTube channel. if you’d like to see our students Doing the Stuff, click on the video attach below 😛 TAGEND
Many Thanks!
The thoughts we have to learn before we do them, we learn by doing them.
~ Aristotle
We cannot thank you fairly for all the support and encouragement you’ve given our students whom you’ve never assembled! The full repercussion of this excursion in experiential education may never be known. It’s difficult to quantify. But you can see it in their seeings and hear the views in their voice.
Some of you have asked how you might help in more tangible modes. Stay chanted for updates on becoming a partner/ sponsor with RISE Academy. Until then…
Keep Doing the Stuff of Self-Reliance,
~ Todd
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