Unit 5: Hiking/Camping/Wilderness First Aid
Duration of Days: 8
The Patient Assessment System (PAS): A structured "Visible System" for evaluating injuries (Scene Size-up, Primary Survey, Secondary Survey).
Navigation & Route Planning: Using topographic maps and GPS to estimate travel time based on elevation gain (Naismith’s Rule).
Leave No Trace (LNT): The 7 principles of environmental ethics (Standard 4).
Physiology of Survival: Knowledge of how the body regulates temperature (Conduction, Convection, Radiation, Evaporation) to prevent Hypothermia/Hyperthermia.
Task Initiation: Efficiently "Managing tasks and materials" by packing a "10 Essentials" pack within a specific time frame.
Planning & Organization: Working in Intentional Groupings to plan a menu, calculate caloric needs, and organize a communal campsite.
Productive Struggle: Navigating off-trail or managing a complex "Moulage" (simulated injury) where the teacher uses Questioning versus telling to guide their medical decisions.
Emotional Regulation: Staying focused during a high-pressure "Mock Rescue" where they must treat a "victim" while managing their own stress.
Discourse: Students perform a "3 Reads" of a medical scenario and formulate a plan of action.
Visible Systems: Setting up a "Bear Triangle" (Sleeping, Cooking, and Food Storage 200ft apart).
Productive Struggle: Building a fire using steel and flint.
Authentic Challenge: A full-scale simulation where teams find a "victim," stabilize them, and build a litter to evacuate them.
| Lesson # | Lesson Title | Duration of Days |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tents | 1 |
| 2 | Sleeping Bags | 1 |
| 3 | Outside Tent Set Up | 1 |
| 4 | Outside tent set up | 1 |
| 5 | Fire Building | 1 |
| 6 | CPR and Rescue Breathing | 1 |
| 7 | Sudden Illness, Bleeding, and Splinting | 1 |
| 8 | Spinal Injury | 1 |