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Meet Your Backyard
To foster stewardship of the outdoors, Get Outdoors Nevada seeks to create environmental literacy. This is an individual's understanding, skills, and motivation to make responsible decisions that considers his or her relationships with natural systems, communities, and future generations.
We strive to provide student learners with:
- An increased understanding of the unique aspects of Nevada's outdoor landscapes.
- Engaging, exciting programs that enrich children’s lives by providing experiential learning opportunities.
- Sound scientific information that inspires a lifelong respect for the outdoors.
- Skills for critical thinking and strategic problem solving.
In creating our programs, we have been committed to ensuring they are sustainable. Therefore, we’ve grown our programs incrementally, allowing us to support community needs while ensuring long-term viability of our numerous initiatives.
Water in the Desert Field Trip
Meet Your Mojave!
Meet Your Mojave is an interpretive curriculum that increases knowledge about habitats and natural resources.
Outdoor Classrooms
Outdoor Classroom programs and field trips help youth discover and experience nature.
Get Outdoors Nevada Microgrants
Get Outdoors Nevada Microgrants connect youth to the outdoors by providing field trip transportation grants to schools & community organizations.
Microgrant Recipients
Get Outdoors Nevada receives requests to deliver these programs to many organizations in the community!
NGSS Program
Get Outdoors Nevada delivers Next Generation Science Standard (NGSS) programs to help CCSD schools increase science proficiency through outdoor experiences.
Schoolyard Habitat
Restore Your Backyard (RYB) creates and protects the native habitats for local wildlife in urban locations.
Mojave Max
Get Outdoors Nevada partnered with the Desert Conservation Program to deliver the Mojave Max Education Program.
Internship Program
Get Outdoors Nevada offers Internships to introduce participants to outdoor work and careers.
The Get Outdoors Nevada Microgrant Program
The Get Outdoors Nevada Microgrant Program offers reimbursable field trip funding statewide!
The basics:
- Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
- Funding is awarded in $200 blocks and is reimbursed.
- Each reimbursable microgrant can be used to cover transportation costs for science or outdoor-based field experiences for schools or community organizations.
- Applications must be submitted a minimum of two weeks before the scheduled trip.
Our History:
In 2012, Get Outdoors Nevada (GON) began facilitation of the NV Children's Outdoor Bill of Rights Alliance which identified a lack of transportation as the major barrier for youth to visit Nevada's diverse outdoor places. In addressing this community need, GON developed The Get Outdoors Nevada Microgrant Program where schools and community organizations could apply for reimbursable funding. In seven years, GON has supported 636 bus trips transporting 26,576 participants to public lands, parks, and museums throughout Clark County. Now, we are able to offer this program to communities all over our beautiful state!
Download the application at the link below:
Thank you to our Program Sponsors
For more information contact microgrant@getoutdoorsnevada.org
Get Outdoors Nevada Microgrant Recipients & Participants
Addeliar Gulf / Eva Wolfe Elementary Schools
After School All Stars - Lifetime Adventures
Aldeane Ries Elementary School
Allen Elementary School
American Preparatory Academy
Andre Agassi College Prep
Arbor View High School
Arturo Cambeiro Elementary School
Bailey Middle School
Big Brothers Big Sisters
Blue Diamond Elementary School
Boys and Girls Clubs - Desert Pines
Boys and Girls Clubs - Downtown
Boys and Girls Clubs - Engelstad
Boys and Girls Clubs - Gaughan
Boys and Girls Clubs - Gulbis
Boys and Girls Clubs - Kish
Boys and Girls Clubs - Lied
Brown Middle School
Camp Cartwheel
Children's Discovery Museum
Children's Heart Center
Clark County
Clark County Gang Prevention
Club Christ
Colorfully Candid Paradigm
CP Squires Elementary School
CT Sewell Elementary School
Dean Allen Elementary School
Derfelt Elementary School
Desert Pines High School
Desert Rose Adult High School
Detwiler Elementary School
Doris Reed Elementary School
East Career Technical Academy
Elaine Wynn Elementary School
Eldorado High School
Elise L. Wolff Elementary
Estes McDoniel Elementary School
Explore Knowledge Academy
Families in Nature
Fay Galloway Elementary School
Frias Elementary School
Gene Ward Elementary
Gilbert Magnet School
Gordon McCaw Elementary School
Goynes Elementary School
Grant M. Bowler Elementary School
Green Our Planet (Gibson MS)
Harmon Elementary School
Harry Reid Elementary School
Helen Herr Elementary School
Helen Marie Smith Elementary School
Helldorado Farm Days
Hummel Elementary School
I Have A Dream Foundation
Jack Dailey Elementary School
Jay Jeffers Elementary School
Jim Bridger Middle School
Jr. Master Gardeners Program - UNCE
K.O. Knudson Middle School
Kit Carson International Academy
Las Vegas High School
Las Vegas High School PAL Program
Leaders in Training
Liberty High School
Mater Academy of Nevada
Moapa Valley High School
Mohave Accelerated Learning Center
Monaco Middle School
Mountain View Elementary School
Myrtle Tate Elementary School (Communities in Schools)
Nate Mack Elementary School
National Park Service
Nevada Learning Academy
Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth
Northwest Career and Technical Academy
NPS Centennial veterans group
Paul Culley Empowerment School
Pinecrest Academy-Inspirada
Rainbow Dreams Academy
Robert Lake Elementary School
Robert Lunt Elementary School
Robert Taylor Elementary School
Ruby Duncan Elementary School
Sandy Searles Miller Academy
Saville Middle School
Schofield Middle School
Shadow Ridge High School
Silverado High School
Southern Nevada Water Authority
Southern Nevada Trails Day
Southern Paiute Cultural Exchange
Spring Valley High School
Tarkanian Middle School
The Embracing Project
Tom Williams Elementary School
Triggs Elementary School
Twin Lakes Elementary School
Ulis Newton Elementary School
US Fish & Wildlife Service
US Forest Service
Ute Perkins Elementary School
Walter Bracken STEAM Academy
West Career and Technical Academy
Whitney Elementary School
Winchester Cultural Center
YMCA Centennial Hills
YMCA Durango Hills
YMCA Heinrich
YMCA Skyview
Schoolyard Habitat
Building upon the Schoolyard Habitat project guide designed by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS), our Restore Your Backyard program engages school children and community organizations to work together to rehabilitate natural spaces to their original ecological conditions. With assistance and tools provided by Get Outdoors Nevada’s education department, school grounds are transformed into beautiful Mojave Desert spaces that serve as outdoor classrooms and laboratories.
Connect with Nevada's special outdoor places through our Native Habitat program.
Our program rehabilitates urban spaces into beautiful native habitat for threatened and endangered species. See how over 100 community volunteers joined us on November 17, 2018 to create City of North Las Vegas' largest Schoolyard Habitat at Craig Ranch Regional Park. This habitat provides food, water, cover and space for local migratory birds and pollinators!
What is the Schoolyard Habitat Program?
Schoolyard Habitat provides a knowledgebase on fostering naturalized habitat areas that are created hands-on by students, for students. It is ecologically sound and integrates with overarching school curricula including, but not limited to, English, science, mathematics, history, geography, social studies, and art. Further, the interdisciplinary program is designed to cultivate a commitment to long-term environmental stewardship in students.
Typical projects created in Clark County include native Mojave Desert habitats that benefit migratory birds, pollinators such as the Monarch butterfly, and desert tortoises. In other areas of Nevada, the program sites can range from riparian to coniferous forest habitats.
It is Get Outdoors Nevada’s goal to increase the number of school and community participants statewide. In order to develop a Schoolyard Habitat, apply to GON for assistance. If selected, GON will then provide funding and technical guidance. Please contact Cheresa Taing, Program Coordinator at ctaing@getoutdoorsnevada.org or call (702) 997-3350 to learn more about bringing Restore Your Backyard and the Schoolyard Habitat program to your school.