Looking for ways to engage your students in environmental action? The CWF Education Kit is packed with lesson plans, resources, and action projects to help your class take real steps toward reducing their carbon footprint. 🌍💚
By participating, your students will not only learn about the environment but also take actionable steps toward a more sustainable future!
Follow the link to access the CWF Education Kit and start making a difference in your classroom today!
Download Inside Education’s Explorer Toolkit & Teacher’s Guide!
Looking for ways to get your students outside and connected to the natural world? Inside Education’s Explorer Toolkit and Teacher’s Guide offer fun, hands-on activities designed for students from Kindergarten to Grade 3.
These resources will help bring nature into your classroom with engaging outdoor activities that promote environmental awareness, exploration, and discovery.
Inside education is an Alberta-based organization with both a provincial and national reach.
Looking for resources to include kids of all abilities in activities?
Explore the Seattle Playgarden Inclusion Learning Hub—a comprehensive collection of lessons, workshops, and training designed to help you create inclusive, engaging environments for all students.
Whether you’re looking for practical strategies, creative lesson ideas, or professional development, the Inclusion Learning Hub has everything you need to empower your teaching and support children of all abilities.
Download the Seattle Playgarden Inclusion Toolkit!
Looking for practical strategies to support all students, including those with disabilities? This toolkit provides actionable tips and strategies to help you say “YES!” to including kids of all abilities in your classroom or activities.
What’s inside?
Empower your teaching with resources that make a real difference. Download the Inclusion Toolkit today and start creating an inclusive, supportive space for every student!
Nature Journaling Curriculum Version 2.0
This downloadable guide was an early version of the work that lead to How to Teach Nature Journaling. The new book How to Teach Nature Journaling by John Muir Laws (also available on this site) is the most up-to-date resource on leading nature journaling activities.
Would you like to lead nature journaling activities with your class, homeschool group, or nature center? This guide gives an essential framework that will help you lead activities and motivate children (and adults) to use their journals.
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Expanding on the philosophy and methods of his last book, The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling, John teamed up with experienced curriculum developer and educator, Emilie Lygren, to develop this unparalleled and comprehensive guide to using nature journaling as a tool to engage young people with the outdoors. This teacher-friendly book combines curriculum plans, practical advice, and in-the-field experience so that educators of all stripes can bring journaling to their students or families. Full-color illustrations and sample journal pages from notable naturalists and novices show how to put each lesson into practice.
Best of all, it encourages the things we need most at this moment: routines and rituals, creative expression, observation and concentration, engagement with nature, and connection with each other (even if from a distance!).
Are green spaces near you closed or inaccessible? Nature journaling can happen anywhere, from a kitchen window to a neighborhood stroll. With the right tools and ways of observing, you can document the bird sitting on a telephone wire, the beans in your pantry, the flower blooming in your neighbor’s front yard, the weed pushing through the cracks in the sidewalk, or the vine creeping up the side of your apartment building.
A great way to get started is to watch this video workshop from a class I gave on how to teach Nature Journaling.
Free download! You can download the book today. If you like the book, consider also buying the full version and making a donation to directly support Heyday, Law’s amazing non-profit publisher. You may download the book for use in your home, classroom, or at your institution. You may not reproduce any part of the book for sale. The version with double-page spreads is best for viewing on a screen or device. If you plan to print the book at home, download the single-page version but be aware that for close to the cost of printing you can get the bound full-color book. Home printing is a good option if shipping the book is too expensive.
The Nature Playbook is a strategy to connect young people with Nature in Canada. It is meant to guide and inspire actions that all Canadians can take to connect a new generation with Nature.
Pick up the Playbook. Plan your Plays. Make a difference.
https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2016/pc/R62-465-2016-eng.pdf
Free educational resources from the World’s leading experts on sustainable development.
We are all born with rights that help ensure we are treated fairly. We all have these human rights and the responsibilities that come with them. Indigenous people have the right as individuals and as communities to protection for their languages, cultures — the ways of life that have been attacked and are still under threat. In Mino-pimatisiwin: Living the Good Life, students will learn about these rights and responsibilities, as well as about Indigenous role models. This special publication for Truth and Reconciliation Week 2024 will encourage readers to walk the good path as allies, inspired by artistic and community efforts that are fostering respectful relations.
To guide teachers in their own learning and to help bring truth and reconciliation into their classrooms, this magazine will be accompanied by supplementary educational resources available in English and French. The magazine, intended for students in grades 5–12, is offered in print and digital formats in both English and French.
Order your digital copy here:
https://www.canadashistory.ca/education/classroom-resources/living-the-good-life
Teaching About Invasive Species is designed as a tool kit. You will find profiles of 12 different education programs associated with invasive species. Youth educators, whether they work inside or outside schools, will find innovative perspectives, program ideas, games and a total of 21 activities to engage young people from 6-19 years of age in this challenging topic. In the preparation of this book, we spent considerable time scouring North America for innovative programs and learning activities. The result is that we have contributors from Maine to California and Ontario to British Columbia, as well as contributions from 3 other countries.
Check out the book here:
Created in collaboration with Indigenous educators and partners, the Natural Curiosity Program addresses a critical link between environmental and Indigenous education, supporting all educators to authentically respond to the calls to action by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.
This second edition of Natural Curiosity supports a stronger basic awareness of Indigenous perspectives and their importance to environmental education. The driving motivation for a second edition was the burning need, in the wake of strong and unequivocal recommendations by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, to situate Indigenous perspectives into the heart of Canadian educational settings and curricula, most notably in connection with environmental issues.
Project Learning Tree Canada has activity guides and books for Educators on the theme of trees and forest stewardship. They also have online courses and free worksheets (some resources available in English only).
Let’s Talk Science’s virtual resources include ready-to-use, curriculum-aligned STEM resources. STEM learning activities and 30-minute workshops.
Disponible en français!
Les ressources virtuelles de Let’s Talk Science comprennent des ressources STEM prêtes à l’emploi et conformes au programme scolaire, des activités d’apprentissage STEM et des ateliers de 30 minutes.
Browse the collection of credible, engaging, and unbiased climate resources. Search by themes such as oceans, human impact, and biodiversity. You can also search by language, region, resource type, and grade.
Subject to Climate is a United States-based organisation with both a national and a global focus.
A common way invasive species spread is through gardening activities such as when gardeners unknowingly purchase or transplant invasive plants that then “escape” into natural areas, or when insects “hitchhike” on plants or in soil and compost.
Plant Wise is a national program that helps gardeners and the (ornamental) horticulture industry to understand which plants are invasive and harmful to our communities and to make ‘Plant Wise’ choices.
Gardens and yards are extensions of our local ecosystems and they represent incredible opportunities to help restore an area’s biodiversity. What we plant in them has an impact on the surrounding natural areas; in fact, many of today’s most damaging invasive plants were first brought to North America for ornamental purposes.
Grow Me Instead is a component of the Plant Wise program that focuses on increasing awareness about invasive horticultural plants and providing native alternatives.
The Healthy Design City site provides information, resources, and interactive map tools on five key areas of climate resilience and impact: Parks and Recreation, Heat Islands, Community Amenities, Policy and Practice, and Air and Noise Pollution. Also listed is an interactive tool to explore a number of parameters of equity and climate impact in Canadian cities.
These educational tools were developed by Dr. Laelia Benoit, child psychiatrist and researcher at Yale University, to help parents and teachers discuss climate change with children and adolescents. These resources offer concrete means for young people to learn and understand the issues surrounding the climate crisis, to accept crisis-related emotions and better regulate them, to act for the climate, to discover the power of collective action, and to overcome climate-related feelings to transform any anxieties into hopeful climate actions.
A guide for anyone who wants to connect and care for the forest.
Like the land, this guidebook follows the four seasons. Each chapter includes information about the flora and fauna with which you share the forest, the influence of natural disturbances and climate change, and actions you can take to have a positive impact on the landscape. Like an ecosystem, this guide is a collection of the big and small: it considers the landscape, watershed, and distinct stands in your forest as well as the soil, plants, and animals. Whether you own forestland or are simply passionate about spending time in nature, the Wabanaki Forest Care Guide will invite you to listen, observe, and connect in different ways with the land you call home.