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The Foxcroft Amazon Rainforest trip is a transformative educational experience where students visit a scientific station and conduct research, trade with indigenous people, do community service with a local community, walk in the forest canopy, fish for piranha - and much more.
Destination: Explorama Lodges in the Amazon Rainforest, just North of Iquitos, in Northeastern Peru
Dates: March 2-11, 2025 (first 9 days of spring break) - this is our preliminary itinerary
Trip Partner: EcoTeach
Chaperones: Dr. Anderson and Mr. Northrup
Cost and Application: to come in October, 2024.
History:
This will be the fourth Foxcroft trip to this region - previous trips were in 2004, 2011, and 2020.
Goals:
The Amazon trips provides an authentic environment for interdisciplinary learning across subjects such as environmental science, geography, foreign language, and art. Your chaperones Dr. Anderson and Mr. Northrup are excited to be able to teach the major concepts of their courses as students are immersed in a different culture and ecosystem.
Each day students will be learning about plants, animals, and the beauty of the natural world in the most complex ecosystem on earth. If they are Spanish speakers, they will use their language in real-world communication, and everyone will learn some new indigenous words. Each student has a sketchbook, and will document their experience not only in words but also in drawings.
The biggest lesson that our students have walked away with is not discipline specific, but has to do with the realization of shared humanity. By working alongside locals performing community service, and through developing relationships over the trip with people who live in a culture very different from their own, participants experience life in a developing country in a truly authentic way.
This type of intercultural education is a precious gift to a young person, and helps them understand not only the culture they are visiting, but also their own culture and place in the larger world. There is no question that this trip provides a unique learning opportunity for Foxcroft girls.
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