Bushcraft & Wilderness Activities Endorsed Certificate Course (Training Qualifications UK)

Bushcraft And Wilderness Activities Online Course.100 Hours Endorsed Certificate Course (TQUK - Training Qualifications UK).

This online course is valuable to people who may have a recreational interest in wilderness exploration, orienteers, tour guides, scout leaders, or ecotour business owners.

Benefits of an ADL Endorsed Course?

Endorsed courses are skills based. They have been evaluated and approved by an independent awarding body such as Training Qualifications UK (TQUK).

What makes ADL’s Endorsed courses different?

• Flexible Self-Paced Learning– adjust your learning around your home and work commitments
• Start and Finish at any time
• Courses globally and industry relevant
• Practical Component at the end of most lessons.

Allocated your own tutor relevant to your subject. You can have as little or as much contact as you like with your tutor. They are there to support you all the way through.

This course is endorsed by TQUK -Training Qualifications UK, an OFQUAL awarding body.

Lesson Structure: Bushcraft And Wilderness Activities BTR201

There are 10 lessons:

1. Understanding Wilderness Areas
   • Introduction
   • Living Things
   • Ecological Relationships
   • Climatic Zones
   • Climate/Soil/Vegetation Interrelationships
   • Plant Associations
   • Continental Drift
   • Understanding Impacts of Weather on Wilderness Activities - Highs and Lows, Thunderstorms, Atmospheric pressure changes in storms, guide to weather symbols.
   • Terminology
   • Participant Fitness Levels - testing current physical fitness and further tests
2. Equipment
   • Introduction
   • Equipping to survive - minimum essential items for the survival kit, additional items, individual medical kit
   • Essential Items for Wilderness Travel
   • Clothing
   • Nutrition
   • Food packaging
   • Liability and Insurance
   • Risk Assessment
3. Protection from the Elements
   • Introduction
   • First Aid Procedures
   • Hypothermia (exposure)
   • Hyperthermia (heat exhaustion)
   • Building a wilderness shelter
   • Lighting a fire
   • Mental strength
4. Natural Resources
   • Introduction
   • Finding water - plan ahead to find water, how much water do you need?
   • Landscape vegetation and animal signs, things to avoid, making an above ground still, soakage water, water from tree roots
   • Case Study - Survival story
   • Bush tucker or Survival Food - Australian bush tucker foods.
   • Preparation of plant food.
   • Animals for food
   • Use of Bush Tucker Food
5. Navigation
   • Introduction
   • Navigation and direction finding - how to use a compass, map reading, longitude and latitude, scale, contour lines, estimating distances, pacing.
   • Navigation by the sun, moon and stars
6. Dealing with Emergencies
   • Introduction
   • Venomous creatures - snakes - symptoms of a poisonous bite, first aid, arachnids - first aid, marine creatures - jelly fish, cone shell, first aid, scorpionfish, lionfish and stonefish - first aid, other dangerous marine creatures.
   • Carnivorous mammals - bears, big cats
   • Poisonous plants
   • Bushfires
7. Camping
   • Introduction
   • Setting up camp
   • Camping - different styles of camping
   • Successful camp programming
   • Waste disposal
8. Passive Land Based Activities
   • Introduction
   • Observing nature
   • Orienteering
   • Environmental activities for children
   • Plant collection
9. Water Based Adventure Activities
   • Introduction
   • Some water-based activities - snorkelling, scuba, sailing, speed boating and jet skiing, canoeing, white-water rafting, water skiing.
10. Active Land Based Adventure Activities
    • Introduction
    • Activities - abseiling, hang gliding, rock climbing, snow skiing, snowboarding
    • Motorised Vehicles - landscape impact, safety, considerations
    • Mountain Bikes
    • Horse Riding

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the academy, marked by the academy's tutors and returned to you with feedback, any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.

Survivalists, Adventure Tour Guides, Bushcraft Instructors, Adventurists, Teachers, Lifestyle Coaches

A pc or laptop with internet connection.

There are many career paths including Adventure Tour Guides, Bushcraft Instructors etc. The term Bushcraft is quite a subjective term and can incorporate a whole host of skills and activities. This course will set you on the right path to develop your skills in order to make working within Bushcraft and Wilderness Activities a full-time career.