Campfires and cooking

Activity theme: • practise getting the fire lit • practise building different types of campfire • try out different methods of preparing food • plan food and equipment for the activity FLL1 learning aims: • explore and carry out activities and trips in the local area across the different seasons • travel safely and practise a friluftsliv (the Norwegian tradition of unhurried, outdoor open-air living) that takes nature into account • cooperate in order to contribute to community, social experiences and mastery • assess and prepare food that is suitable for friluftsliv trips FLL2 learning aims: * plan and carry out activities and trips in the local area independently and together

• understand the importance of a suitable diet on trips and explore the possibilities nature offers us as a food source
• practise and reflect on sustainable travel in nature
• carry out and assess friluftsliv trips in which a sense of mastery, experiences of nature and community are central Relevance to the subject / specifics: • explore preparing food outdoors • practise leave-no-trace travel (sporløs ferdsel) • practise lighting a campfire and getting to know different types of campfire Type of trip: Day trip, Local area Season: Autumn, Winter, Spring

Good teaching plans for campfires and cooking:

• Campfire and lighting
• Building a seven-stone oven
• Building a tripod to hang a kettle or pot over the fire

Practical tasks

Light a campfire and cook food on the fire

• Campfire and lighting

  Campfire and lighting

• The 30 game

  The game can be done in connection with, among other things, physical education and activity studies:

  The 30 game

• Day plan in physical education/activity studies/friluftsliv and natural science:

  The campfire — Combustion and energy source

More about campfires:

Campfire