Experience the Range

The 'Experience the Range' guide outlines a collaborative educational program between teachers and ranchers to teach students about rangeland ecology in the Northern Great Plains. It provides administrative checklists for both parties, a five-step 'Design Thinking' model for students to develop solutions to range problems, and a sensory-based activity guide covering livestock, plants, soil, wildlife, landscape, and human and range issues.

• The program aims to achieve two primary outcomes: increasing youth literacy and awareness regarding the decline of the Northern Great Plains ecosystem, and creating an educational pathway to strengthen the study of rangeland ecology.
• Students are taught to apply a five-step Design Thinking Model to rangeland management: Empathize (observing and interacting with ranchers), Define (creating a problem statement), Ideate (generating diverse ideas), Prototype (creating a preliminary model), and Test (gathering feedback from the rancher).
• The curriculum utilizes a sensory-based approach to explore seven core topics: livestock, plants, soil, wildlife, landscape, range issues, and human issues.
• The guide identifies specific 'human issues' that impact land management decisions, including workforce issues, stress, mental health, generational transition, relations with neighbors, government regulations, marketing, and the cost of production.

APA

WWF International (n.d.). Experience the Range. https://www.worldwildlife.org/documents/1119/12le2n1aq4_ExperiencetheRange_TeacherRancher_Guide.pdf

Chicago

WWF International. Experience the Range. n.d. https://www.worldwildlife.org/documents/1119/12le2n1aq4_ExperiencetheRange_TeacherRancher_Guide.pdf.

Wikipedia

{{cite report |author=WWF International |title=Experience the Range |url=https://www.worldwildlife.org/documents/1119/12le2n1aq4_ExperiencetheRange_TeacherRancher_Guide.pdf |access-date=23 October 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@techreport{wwfinternationalndexperience, author = {{WWF International}}, title = {{Experience the Range}}, institution = {WWF International}, url = {https://www.worldwildlife.org/documents/1119/12le2n1aq4_ExperiencetheRange_TeacherRancher_Guide.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }