Outdoor Education Lesson Plans

Students discuss what they like about parks and make a list of different things they like to do there such as swing, run, play ball, ride a bike, or go on a hike. They discover the locations of some examples of National Parks and that they are places to enjoy the outdoor activities.

Students explore lifetime activities to insure a healthy lifestyle. In this healthy lifestyle lesson, students work in groups and to complete activities. Students time the activities and visit a website to analyze the calories that burned. Students write a paragraph about the activity, make a list of outdoor activities, and sports they can play in the future, and make a bar chart from the calorie information.

Students examine and explore factors that need to be considered when performing outdoor activities, and what they can do to prepare themselve for them.

Students view a multimedia presentation and participate in physical activities.  In this physical and outdoor recreation lesson, students become familiar with the origin of the word recreation.  Students understand the difference between recreation and sport. Students  complete a worksheet and plan recreation for themselves. Students play a recreation game.

Students develop lessons which they teach to younger students in a type of outdoor education camp.

Students study about the different types of UV rays and how they can protect themselves against their harmful effects. They explain how to interpret the UV index in order to plan the best time to participate in outdoor activities

Students study trees in their natural habitat. In this tree lesson, students complete a number of outdoor activities to estimate the height of a tree, examine how bark can be a distinguishing tree characteristic, and how to make a bark print. They find the transpiration rate of a tree by completing an experiment with a leaf.

Students watch a video about wildlife and outdoor recreation to study the impact of humans on the environment. In this human-environment interactions lesson plan, students watch a video about outdoor recreation. Students answer comprehension and critical thinking questions for the video. Students then plan an event for their school to promote outdoor activities. Students write the plan as a formal proposal with a calendar of activities.

Students develop plans for an event of hunting and outdoor recreation. In this Arizona wildlife lesson, students view a video to understand the vocabulary and rules needed to plan an outdoor day of recreation and hunting. Students answer critical thinking questions.

Students, in groups, graph data from a Weather Data handout. They use weather data to determine the best month for outdoor activities.