Adventure education can be defined in several ways. I believe adventure education is a direct, active, engaging learning experience that involves the whole person and has real consequences. What I take away from this definition is that students are active, always involved, while learning new experiences that can have real-world consequences, like getting injured. Another way to define it is the promotion of learning through adventure-centered experiences, for example outdoor sports, challenge courses and races. When teaching adventure education, many skills and concepts are applied in the lesson, but more importantly, there must be a basic understanding of the origin of adventure education . Outdoor sports and adventure education have grown in physical education classes across the country. . It all started in the 1940s when the natural environment was used for youth development programs. An example of this would be the Boy Scouts. They used orienteering, like using a map and compass, to navigate from point A to point B. The Adventure Project was a huge step forward in the history of outdoor sports and adventure education. This program took adventure education away from orienteering and reshaped it, introducing ropes courses and challenge courses. This helped keep the environment involved, but made it a little more physically challenging for the students. The mission of Project Adventure is to expand adventure-based experiential programs, with the goal of developing responsible individuals, productive organization, and sustainable communities. There are many skills and concepts that are consistent with adventure education. They range from improving student fitness to unique outdoor sports to creating...... middle of paper ...... district can't afford to have its own rock wall or your own ropes course, look for companies that bring their own equipment. You also look into surrounding towns and see if you can take a trip to the local ropes course.Bibliography1) Prouty, Dick, Jane Panicucci, and Rufus Collinson. Adventure education: theory and application. Adventure Project, 2007. 3-225. Print.2) Indiana University School of Public Health, . “Bradford Woods.” Circulum and adventure education activities. 1-23. Print. .3) “About us.” Adventure Project. Adventure Project, nd Web. October 2, 2013. .4) “Outdoor and Adventure Education Programs (OAEP). » Association for Experimental Education. Association for Experimental Education, nd Web. October 2 2013. .