- Date
- 2002-11
- Kind
- Education
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- educationrecreationcommunityemergency-management
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
In mid-November 2002, Ken Bruland taught survival skills to Beaver Island’s ninth- and tenth-grade students. Seventeen students practiced walking by compass and completed field lessons that required navigating from the Christian Brothers to a point on Font Lake, including a more advanced swamp-circumvention exercise for the older group.
Evidence limits
The article describes the course activities but does not establish a formal curriculum, certification, or later outcomes.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, December 2002, “Learning to Survive.”Reports Ken Bruland’s class for 17 students, including classroom instruction, compass exercises, and field lessons from the Christian Brothers to a predetermined point on Font Lake using navigation and clue-based exercises. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2002-12_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the December 2002 report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2002-12_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Ken Bruland teaches Beaver Island students compass and field-survival skills in 2002”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-school-survival-skills-class-2002/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, December 2002, “Learning to Survive.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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