Sign Up for Snowshoeing and Winter Science!
We still have openings this January and February for your class. Get outside and enjoy the winter Northern Nevada provides! Students, tell you teachers! Teachers, bring your students! Learn about your watershed, native animals and plants of Nevada, and how you can be safe in our winter climate. Email us for more information!
What do kids who don’t get enough outdoor experience miss, and how can we help? Kids need direct experiences in nature for healthy development. Mental stimulation of exploring the real world improves school performance; heart-healthy outdoor activity reduces the growing child health risks of obesity, diabetes, and vitamin D deficiency; and a psychologically calming connection to nature relieves stress and ADHD symptoms. So many children are missing these crucial benefits that “No Child Left Inside” movements and national legislation have been introduced.
Great Basin Outdoor School connects hundreds of children with nature each year at multi-day science programs on the shore of Lake Tahoe and hundreds more during local events such as Earth Day and Children’s Environmental Science Day. But thousands more children are left out. Teachers need financial support to bring classes, parents need to understand the importance of outdoor school and other outdoor experiences for their children, and school administrators need to recognize the academic advances documented from outdoor school participation.
