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Tread Lightly!
This is a collection of lessons offered by Nevada Outdoor School in outdoor ethics for all ages, group sizes, settings and skill levels. Many of them are able to be tailored to your needs. Many of these lesson plans are available for study or are available for sale on the Tread Lightly! website.
Click on the lesson name for more detailed information or contact Amanda Williams at LNT@NevadaOutdoorSchool.org.

Tread Lightly! Lesson Plans:

Travel and Recreate with Minimal Impact
Participants discuss the meaning of the word “trail”, and then choose situation cards. In teams of two or three, discuss each situation and decide on an answer and then role-play the situation for the class.
Respect the Environment and the Rights of Others
This activity teaches land ethics and techniques to respect the environment using activities like Mythbuster and Jeopardy!
Conflict in the Canyon
Teaches conflict resolution styles regarding recreation use through discussion, brainstorming, role playing and activity sheets.
Educate Yourself: Plan and Prepare Before You Go
Pack Your Pack
Participants learn and review the preparation process and examine the possible consequences of poor planning through illustrations, group activity, and brainstorming.
Allow For Future Use of the Outdoors
Pack It In, Pack It Out
Teaches students to understand the importance of leaving the outdoors in better condition than they find it; by packing out their own and other trash, using “cat holes”, restoration, etc., through illustration, storytelling role playing, brainstorming and group activities.
Tread Trainer Courses
The Tread Trainer program is a training course for individuals or groups who would like to become Tread Lightly! instructors, called Tread Trainers and learn how to provide workshops and training opportunities for clubs, organizations, educators and the general public.

ETHIC
Educational Tools For Hunters: Improving Choices
Ethic is a teaching aid for hunter education to assist in the development of ethical, responsible uses of outdoor resources with minimal impact on nature or on other outdoor users. ETHIC uses videos, discussion, workbooks and handouts to teach hunters how to use Leave No Trace principles and their own personal values to make ethical decisions during recreation activities.

For more information about any Outdoor Ethics program or event please contact: 

Amanda Williams at 775.623.5656 or LNT@NevadaOutdoorSchool.org