Trackers Outdoor Homeschool cultivates curiosity, creativity, and connection. Our expert Trackers Guides act as mentors to youth and teens learning in a small team of fellow homeschoolers. Kids share epic adventures while learning fantastic outdoor skills.
Our Educational Philosophy
Trackers Earth's curriculum complements homeschooling families. Our unique educational philosophy focuses on creating a deeper connection to community, nature, and social-emotional well-being.
- Friends & Community: Kids learn together in small teams, building social support within their cohort. We teach skills of independence to empower everyone to contribute to their community.
- Multi-Generational: Our mentors begin with a developmental curriculum for different age groups, adapting adventures to our cohorts' interests. We offer opportunities for leadership to encourage multi-generational learning.
- Natural World: We get outdoors to thoughtfully increase a child's comfort and adaptability. We learn skills of connection and caretaking for the natural world.
- Awareness: We practice being present with our peers and environment. We connect to how a child's unique gifts can inspire them to care for their community and nature.
Learn Trackers Skills
Adventuring outdoors entails learning with the seasons. During our journey, each seasonal term draws from the curriculum of our Four Guilds. Our Rangers Guild trains in archery and wilderness survival. Our Mariners Guild goes fishing and boating. Our Wilders Guild helps out with farm animals and gardens. Our Artisans Guild teaches natural arts & folk crafts.
Fall Term: Explore the forest through fantastic Rangers skills such as archery, wilderness survival, and outdoor safety. Learn to build shelters and light fires with no matches. Visit our Wilders farms and animals. Early in fall, go fishing with our Mariners and more.
Winter Term: During these cooler days, spend part of your time in our Artisans Studios. Delve into nature and folk crafts from woodcarving, ceramics, and more. When the sun shines, get back outdoors to train in epic games of forest stealth and animal tracking. Engage on wilderness adventures focused on outdoor camp, wood, and fire craft.
Spring Term: Travel to the farm to help care for animals and forage for wild plants with our Wilders. Explore our local waterways, fishing and boating with our Mariners. Continue your Rangers training, building on outdoor survival, archery, and stealth skills.
Our Team
Experienced Trackers Mentors lead this program. Each day, they help students build deeper connections with each other, their community, and nature.
- Expertise in mentoring and outdoor skills.
- Low student-to-guide ratio facilitating personal, team-based learning.
- Background checked with First Aid & CPR certification.
- Trained in outdoor safety and the Trackers Earth curriculum.
Our Place
Our Sandy Outdoor Homeschool primarily takes place at our 351-acre Wilderness Camp in Sandy, Oregon. At times we may use buses or vans to travel to our nearby farm with donkeys, goats, chickens, and more or go fishing at local waterways. When the weather calls for it, we might create hands-on nature and folk crafts indoors at our Artisans area at the park.