Tread Lightly! Education Trunk
The Tread Lightly! Education Trunk is a collection of activities and props that can be used to assist with outdoor ethics education. Our goal is to make our materials available so an education trunk can be made at home. Below is a list of activities and a supply list. All of the activities in the list can be viewed and saved in PDF format. The supply list includes items to purchase in order to complete an education trunk.
Activity Goals and Materials
Values Game: To experience and acknowledge different values within a group and discuss the role values play in the Tread Lightly! principles and how they can be used to motivate positive behavior.
Sticky Notes Values: Identify what motivates people to participate in outdoor recreation and recognize similarities in values of the different recreational activity groups.
Why Would They Do That: Identity what motivates people to behave inappropriately during recreation and determine some alternative we might suggest for better behavior.
My Favorite Place in Nature: Use words and art to describe a favorite place and nature and then describe how it would feel if that place was damaged.
Tread Principles Jeopardy: To demonstrate understanding of the Tread Lightly! Principles.
SEE Model: An Approach to Confrontation: To identify teachable moments in recreation and use the SEE model to manage those situations.
Recreation Scenario: Discussion and Role Plays: To examine trails, their users and how to deal with bad behavior by recreationists.
Conflict Canyon: To examine conflict between recreationists and understand personal conflict resolution styles.
You on the Trail: Trail Etiquette: Develop and appreciation for and understanding of proper trail etiquette, and understand that part of the good citizenship is being respectful to others.
Making Connections: To understand how things in nature are connected to each other and the consequences of losing one or more elements.
Pack Your Pack: Gain an understanding of why it is important to plan and prepare for a trip, and give tips on how to do this.
Pack it in, Pack it out: To learn and understand how to deal with backcountry waste including human waste and why it is important to leave it better than you found it.
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