Explore Your Environment: K-8 Activity Guide offers educators a wide variety of engaging, hands-on activities, organized into grade bands, K-2, 3-5, and 6-8 about trees and forests, wildlife, water, climate change, stewardship, and more.
The Pocket Guide connects children to nature through sensory experiences. It includes four hands-on experiences to do with children in groups up to eight, plus preparation instructions, material and time requirements, and directions.
Students investigate areas where improvements can be made in indoor air quality, transportation, chemical use, and more.
Students investigate how much energy their school uses, the main sources of that energy, and ways to implement energy-saving strategies.
This Learn About Forest activity is perfect for forest sector professionals leading educational events, career days, or field visits with youth. By creating a physical web, learners model the interconnectedness of organisms in an ecosystem.
This Learn About Forest activity is perfect for forest sector professionals leading educational events, career days, or field visits with youth. Learners examine cross-sections of trees and infer from a tree’s growth rings.
Engage middle school-aged youth in learning about trees, forests, and sustainable forest management with these free ready-to-use activities to engage youth in learning about sustainable forest management.
Students investigate how much waste your school generates and where it goes, as well as recycling and composting efforts.
Students assess their school grounds on the basis of various criteria. Using the data collected from the Investigation, students can develop action projects to improve the school site to make it a more sustainable, healthier, and safer environment.
Students investigate and evaluate water use in their school and on school grounds and collect data on water conservation practices to develop a school action plan for conserving water.