Teachers form teams in their classrooms and enroll on our website. The sign-up process is easy and the manager portal has step by step instructions for you whether you want to manage a single team, or form a league with other educators. After you sign up, you will be able to choose a route and dig into the site’s lessons and curriculum.

Students keep track of the various forms of physical activity they do, like walking, running, swimming or more. The miles they walk (or the time they spend exercising) is recorded by team leaders (teachers), combined with the other students on their team, and logged into the Walk to Unlock Nebraska website’s management portal. Miles are saved for each team and accumulated miles add up to progressively unlock markers and webpages along the site’s interactive state-wide routes.

Educators are in control. Each milestone on the map has a full page of educational content and resources such as videos, images, lesson plans and curriculum guides. Information and resources are sorted and available in various grade levels, and all curriculum is accredited. The route is fully accessible to team leaders from day one so they can plan ahead. Or they can simply share a link to their route with their students/parents and allow them to explore on their own. Each team is given its own individual team progress webpage.

Groups and teams work together to accumulate and log miles to virtually travel the state. But educators also have the opportunity to invite other teams to join them in a private league, to further motivate students to log more physical activities as they help their team to finish the route first. The manager of this league can manage their own team, and also monitor the progress of other teams who accept their invitation.