Schools & Groups

Schools and Groups

Ancestral Knowledge has several program opportunities to offer Public and Private schools, Home School Groups, and organizations like the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of America. We custom design presentations and field trips, mentoring programs and hands-on workshops at a reasonable cost.

The Ancestral Knowledge Mentoring Program engages students in many aspects of art, science, composition, physical education, problem solving and much more. We accomplish this through weekly meetings of after school programs and clubs; field trips to local parks and museums; and day/weekend hands-on workshops or camp-outs. We will tailor a program to fit your groups specific needs.

Rhubarb Jam Home School Woods Wise Summer camp 2007

NEW!! Home School Wilderness Program

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Our Presentations are a one of a kind combination of natural displays and primitive survival skills demonstrations. Our displays include handcrafted primitive tools such as; bows and arrows, natural baskets, utensils, cordage, stone tools, and much more. Our presentation is very student interactive as we pass around many primitive tools and natural materials for discussion and investigation, at the same time engaging them in a question and answer session about each item. Finally we stimulate the students’ ancestral knowledge by involving volunteers in a primitive skill, like a fire by friction demonstration in which we recreate the magic of primitive fire as it was discovered for the first time.

Hide tanning demonstration for Washington D.C.'s Capital Hill Day School. Their 3rd grade class was studying the Lewis and Clarke expedition

Our Weekend Workshops/camp-outs are designed for those groups who want to have a memorable wilderness experience. We offer workshops and camp-outs to any group, private or public. Our weekend programs are designed to teach the participants how to have fun in the woods and give them a hands on experience in wilderness survival skills. These skills include; basic tracking, lost proofing, wild edible gourmet, basic stone tool making, survival shelter and much more. These courses are unique, informative, and hands-on.

left: Bow making class for the Bushy Hill Nature Center in Connecticut.

right: B.S.A. Watchung Mountain District Primitive Skills Camporee 2007

Please contact us if you would like more information or want us to customize a demonstration or program for you.

Phone/Fax (301) 277-1276

E-mail A.K.info@ancestralknowledge.org

Snail mail P.O. BOX 295 Mt. Rainier, Maryland 20712