Field Trips and Resource Contacts
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.
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.
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
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Choctaw Recycling Centers
Durant: (580) 920-0488 Poteau: (918) 649-0343 |
Chahta Foundation
Seth Fairchild sfairchild@choctawnation.com (580) 924-8280, ext. 2639 |
Choctaw Nation Public Safety
John Hobbs jhobbs@choctawnation.com (580) 924-8280, ext. 2379 |
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Choctaw Nation Hangar
Aker Field, Durant (580) 920-1766 |
Choctaw Video Production
Payton Guthrie pguthrie@choctawnation.com (580) 924-8280, ext. 2777 |
Winding Stair Lodge
Blanco, OK Faye Self (580) 924-8280, ext. 2192 |
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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 |
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Choctaw Culture
Social Dancing, Beading, Cornhusk Doll Making Jared Tom (580) 924-8280 ,ext. 2724 or jaredt@choctawnation.com Malinda Steve (580) 924-8280 ext. 2740 or msteve@choctawnation.com Haleigh Gibson (580) 924-8280 ext. 5129 or haleighg@choctawnation.com |
Wheelock Academy
Garvin, OK Wanda Howard (580) 746-2139 |
Durant State Fish Hatchery
Caddo, OK (580) 924-4085 |