Sunship Earth

Record #: MWH0128
Last Modified: 26 May 2016
Last Full Update: 09 Feb 2016

Location

Located In Upper Vaughan
Where To Find Us
Camp Mockingee
160 Smeltzer Rd
Upper Vaughan, NS
Areas Served Nova Scotia

Contact

Website www.halifax.ca/youth/AECSunshipEarth.php
E-Mail aec@halifax.ca
Phone 902-490-4539

Description & Services

Information  
"We are traveling together, at an incredible speed around the sun, on a ship we call Earth." 
 
Our mission at Sunshine Earth is to teach and engage our crew members to appreciate, understand, and care for our planet. 
 
Program Information: 
 
Sunship Earth is an incredible ecological adventure camp for young people ages ten to twelve that has been running for over 20 years. 
 
Join us for a week of adventure, exploration, discovery, and summer camp fun!  
 
Through a series of carefully designed activities and adventures, campers will learn about important ecological concepts while gaining appreciation for the natural world.  
 
Based on the idea that our planet is like a spaceship orbiting the sun, and we are all passengers on this spaceship we call “Sunship Earth”, our young crew members have the opportunity to learn how they can become more responsible passengers, and make a different in the protection of our Sunship Earth. 
 
Sunship participants will learn the concepts of: 
 
E – Energy 
C – Community 
D – Diversity 
C – Cycles 
I – Interrelationships 
C – Change 
A – Adaptation 
 
For more information, please contact the Adventure Earth Centre directly. 
 
Sunship Earth™ was developed by the Institute for Earth Education and is an internationally acclaimed program run on three continents.
Eligibility Ages: 10 year(s) - 12 year(s)
Dates July
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