First Earth Wilderness School offers a wide range of unique educational programs in stone-age technology & nature awareness, either at your location or at First Earth's camp.
 Our most popular program is a one-hour presentation including demonstrations & exhibits, or choose a customized program to fit your curriculum needs.
Hands-on instruction is available in several subjects, students take home a finished project (smaller groups only).
Nature study field-trips are available, covering plant, bird, animal & insect identification by sight & sound, animal tracking, nature awareness, overview of local archaeology, basic forest & stream ecology.
Resume, video presentations, worksheets, vocabulary lists, references available on request.
Overview of basic presentation:
- Discussion of stone-age technology and wilderness survival skills.
- Exhibition and discussion of display articles.
- Demonstration of selected subjects.
Demonstration subjects:
- Flintknapping - (making stone arrowheads, knives, axes, and other tools, and see an extremely sharp stone cutting tool made in one second)
- Demonstration of ancient weaponry, including atlatl, blowgun, bow & arrow.
- Making fire with bow-drill, hand-drill, flint & steel or fire-piston
- Cordage - (very strong string & rope made from plant & animal fibers, even from a paper towel)
(Stone-age weapons & fire can be demonstrated only at an outside location)
List of handmade display articles:
- Braintan buckskin clothing & moccasins
- Bone sewing needles & awl
- Bone fish-hook & plant-fiber fishing line
- Primitive basketry & pottery
- Fat or oil lamp made from pottery
- Bow-drill, hand-drill & bamboo fire-saw (for making friction fire)
- Fire-piston (fire by compression)
- Several types of deadfall & snare traps
- Stone-tipped pump drill
- Stone knives & spear points
- Spear points made from a television picture tube
- Arrowpoints from gemstones such as jasper, agate, opal, obsidian
- Atlatl & dart (ancient spear thrower used to kill Mastodon & Wooly Mammoth)
- Osage-Orange bow & rivercane arrows
- Cherokee-style rivercane blowgun & darts
- Rivercane backrest
- Rawhide cooking pot (for boiling with hot stones)
- Hair comb made from a deer scapula
- Primitive paint set using finely ground colored stones
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Large stone axes
Call or email for program prices
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