How to Lead a Nature Walk: Training Guide
This 41-page guide is your go-to resource for training volunteers to lead nature walks
- How to plan and deliver a nature walk on local conservation lands
- Tips to overcome fears of leading your first nature walk
- Best practices for developing and promoting your event
- Important safety considerations
The How to Lead a Nature Walk Training Guide includes information for workshop instructors and organizers, materials for volunteers, and evaluation materials. Below is a list of individual items in the training guide with a brief description and notes on their use.
| Instructor Materials | What's this? | Notes |
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Instructor Notes |
This guide will provide you with instructions on hosting and facilitating a How to Lead a Nature Walk training for your organization/group's volunteers | Includes tips for planning, recruiting volunteers, implementation, and follow-up; also includes a draft agenda and Field Activity instructions |
| Video: How to Lead a Nature Walk | Video highlights the importance of volunteers leading field walks on public and conserved lands, and insight from volunteers who have been through a Nature Walk training | Can be used to promote your How to Lead a Nature Walk training & played at beginning of training as an introduction |
| Materials for Volunteers | What's This? | Notes |
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| Design Your Own Nature Walk Guide | A complete guide for planning and executing a nature walk in your community | Provide this guide, along with the supplemental handouts below, to volunteers who are training to lead nature walks |
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Quick Tips for Leading a Nature Walk |
Volunteers can use this sheet of basic tips to help plan and execute their nature walk | |
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Tips for an Effective Presentation |
Leading a nature walk includes an element of public speaking; review this helpful resource for tips | |
| Involving Children in Your Walk | A supplement to the "Design Your Own Nature Walk" Guide | |
| Sample Nature Walk Flyer | A sample flyer for volunteers to announce and promote their walk (MS Word format) | Volunteer will need to fill in the details and descriptions for their nature walk |
| Sample Nature Walk Press Release | A sample press release for volunteers to announce and promote their walk (MS Word format) | Volunteer will need to fill in the details and descriptions for their nature walk |
| Evaluation Materials | What's this? | Notes |
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| Nature Walk Volunteer Self-evaluation | A sample questionnaire for volunteers to fill out after they lead a nature walk | Can be helpful in evaluating the success of volunteers leading nature walks for your group or organization |
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These guides were produced by Nature Groupie, a project of the University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension, with funding support from the NH Charitable Foundation. Use of the training guide, associated materials, and the name “Stewardship Training Guides” is made available through a Creative Commons license by the University of New Hampshire.