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Field Trips and Resource Contacts

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Something Smells Fishy
If available, students love a trip to the fish hatchery.  This is connected to the Great Outdoor Adventure Theme.  If a fish hatchery is not within traveling distance, consider contacting state game rangers to see if there might be a travelling exhibit that could visit your school!  Fishing is a great camping connection!

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
A visit to the local recycling center is an effective culminating field trip to celebrate the outdoors.  The Choctaw Nation has recycling centers in Durant and Poteau.

If it isn't possible to go to a recycling center, consider hosting your own recycling day at your summer school site.  One of the favorite activities at the recycling center is putting together "trash puzzles".  Simply, take a flat piece of trash (cereal boxes and soda labels work great!) and make it into a puzzle for students to piece back together.

Have different examples of trash and talk to students about how long it takes for each to decompose.  Students will be fascinated with these numbers.  Extend the activity and have students make a trash decomposition timeline.

The file below offers you information about the decomposition of trash provided by the National Park Service.

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Fly High with a Trip to your Local Airport
Give your students an opportunity to fly high by visiting your local airport.  Just the chance to sit inside an airplane's cockpit or see a plane soar high in the sky will ​have a lasting impact on students.​

Resource Contacts
Choctaw Culture 
Social Dancing, Beading, Cornhusk Doll Making
Email: culturalevents@choctawnation.com
Choctaw Nation Public Safety
John Hobbs
jhobbs@choctawnation.com
(580) 924-8280, ext. 2379
Winding Stair Lodge
Blanco, OK
Faye Self
(580) 924-8280, ext. 2192
Choctaw Recycling Centers
Durant:  (580) 920-0488
Poteau:  (918) 649-0343
Choctaw Nation Hangar 
Aker Field, Durant
(580) 920-1766

Choctaw Video Production
Payton Guthrie
pguthrie@choctawnation.com
(580) 924-8280, ext. 2777
Choctaw Agriculture Outreach
Jody House
jodyhouse@choctawnation.com
(580) 924-8280, ext. 2986
Choctaw Cattle Operations
Steve Swigert
swigert@choctawnation.com

​(580) 924-8280, ext. 4066
Choctaw Artists
Locate Artists within the Registry
Wheelock Academy
Garvin, OK
Wanda Howard
(580) 746-2139

Durant State Fish Hatchery
Caddo, OK
(580) 924-4085

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