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Engaging Youth in Outdoor Stewardship through the PEAK Program

The PEAK program is designed to promote environmental awareness among kids by teaching them essential principles for protecting our natural spaces. With seven guiding principles like "Leave What You Find" and "Trash Your Trash," youth participants engage in various activities that foster stewardship and respect for public lands. Partnered with LNT and REI, PEAK emphasizes fun while encouraging responsible outdoor behavior. Activities include games, relays, and skits, ensuring learning is both enriching and enjoyable.

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Engaging Youth in Outdoor Stewardship through the PEAK Program

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  1. PEAK The PEAK Principles The Activities More Activities Potpourri 1pt 1 pt 1 pt 1pt 1 pt 2 pt 2 pt 2pt 2pt 2 pt 3 pt 3 pt 3 pt 3 pt 3 pt 4 pt 4 pt 4pt 4 pt 4pt 5pt 5 pt 5 pt 5 pt 5 pt

  2. What does “PEAK” Stand for?

  3. Promoting Environmental Awareness in Kids

  4. How many principles are there in the PEAK program?

  5. Seven

  6. What does “LNT” stand for?

  7. Leave No Trace

  8. What two organizations partnered to create the PEAK program?

  9. LNT & REI

  10. Increase awareness of Leave No Trace • Promote stewardship of public lands • Meet the demands of diverse youth populations • Have fun! • These are the primary ___________ of PEAK.

  11. Goals

  12. Which principle is concerned with staying on the trails?

  13. Choose the right path

  14. Which principle is concerned with knowing how to throw things away properly?

  15. Trash Your Trash

  16. Which principle is concerned with knowing which flowers should and/or should not be picked?

  17. Leave What You Find

  18. Which principle encourages you to enjoy animals from afar?

  19. Respect Wildlife

  20. Which two principles would you have used if you knew that you would need matches for an overnight trip AND that you need an adult present to start a campfire?

  21. Know Before You Go & Be Careful With Fire

  22. Find how long it really takes for common trash/recyclable to break down in nature and why it's important to Trash our Trash.

  23. How Long Does It Last?

  24. There are living organisms everything. Explore your world from an ant's level and find out why it's important to stick to trails.

  25. Watch Your Step

  26. Many Leave No Trace decisions can be made along the trail. A version of a relay race, participants will decide whether they advance on the trail by answering Leave No Trace related questions.

  27. Leave No Trace Draw

  28. Why is it important to stick to trails? Compete with your team to answer questions and learn how to Choose the Right Path when outdoors.

  29. Step On It

  30. Test your knowledge of the Leave No Trace principles by listening to clues and deciding What Principle Am I?

  31. What Principle Am I?

  32. An introduction to the principles through demonstration of preparing for an outdoor trip; works great as a skit.

  33. Discovering the Leave No Trace Principles

  34. Have your youth become CSI investigators as they stumble upon a campsite leave no trace "crime scene."

  35. Leave No Trace Crime Scene

  36. Find out what different gear items will help you Leave No Trace when you are outdoors. Ask Yes/No questions to find out what gear you represent, then find your match!

  37. Minimum Impact Match

  38. Meet all the PEAK characters and the principles they represent as Trek and Track (a pair of boots) head out on an outdoor adventure.

  39. Trecks and Track’s Great Adventure

  40. Set up a Leave No Trace obstacle course for your students, with stops and activities representing each Leave No Trace principle.

  41. Leave No Trace Relay

  42. Choose a presenter…. What is their First and Last name?

  43. Eddie Hill Jennifer Miller Lindsey Brown Jonathan Wetzel

  44. Name one of the activities that we did today.

  45. Discovering the LNT Principles OR How Long Does it Last?

  46. How Many Questions are on the Assessment?

  47. Thirty-Six

  48. How Many Reverse Coded Items are on the PEAK Assessment?

  49. Three

  50. Where was the PEAK pilot survey administered?

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