From plastic targets to real animals, students in lifetime recreation apply what they’ve learned in archery to hunting.

“So we kind of build, we stagger it, we start with our archery unit just because the weather’s nice and we want to start shooting and then we get into hunter education,”  lifetime recreation teacher Justin Koons said. “Archery is an extension of hunting education because you can hunt using archery and there are archery laws and then you can hunt with a rifle or gun and there’s laws for that and there’s also seasons for it. There’s archery season and then there’s a season for rifles and guns.”

To further their understanding of hunting laws and regulations, students also debate ethical dilemmas of hunting.

“What we’re doing is we’re going to debate about a chosen prompt,” lifetime recreation student Sanvitha Makkena said. “For example, hunting ethics or not and one person is going to be the interviewer and the other two debate against this topic and it’s kind of like a news broadcast.”