Download free nature programs

You just have to know where to find them. Fortunately, we do. We scoured the web, looking at some of our favorite wildlife and nature-based organization, learning about some new orgs along the way to come up with this list for you of nature-based learning curriculum for schools and homeschools!

From citizen-science projects, outdoor explorations, activities, lesson plans, toolkits, you'll find many creative resources to help jumpstart nature-based education for your kids or students.

If you can get past the adorable barn owl image on the page, dive like a pelican into Audubon Adventures. This environmental education curriculum created by the National Audubon Society for grades 3 - 5 was developed by professional environmental educators and presents standards-based science content about birds, wildlife, and their habitats.

It's a "must" resource to get kids hooked on birding—and what kid shouldn't be hooked on birding? Designed for classrooms and other educational settings as well as for enjoyment at home, Audubon Adventures introduces young people to the world of nature and wildlife through colorful magazines, online features and interactive games and puzzles, plus activities, guidance, and resources for educators.

This user-friendly resource is so well designed that it even includes guidelines for optimal use of the resources, letters to send home to parents to explain the curriculum, background essays for educators and much more. From the prestigious Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the K Education program offers classroom and homeschool educators innovative K resources that build science skills while inspiring young people to connect to local habitats, explore biodiversity, and engage in citizen-science projects.

These nature-based resources can help you lead students in making observations, crafting and testing hypotheses, collecting and graphing data, drawing meaningful conclusions, and sharing their work. Lesson plans are divided into three grade and age ranges, with five themes. Some lesson plans have one or more learning perks including the use of free Species Cards.

Lesson plans are created by EOL and partners. When we think the federal government, we don't usually think "easy to use" but the US EPA's educator resource center is an outlier. The website includes categorized offerings of an array of environmental and science-based lesson plans, activities and ideas below from EPA, other federal agencies and external organizations.

While not entirely nature and wildlife-focused, some of the topics include climate change, energy, asthma, ecosystems and others. Resources include toolkits, activity books, lesson plans, flyers, coloring books and experiments. Grade level is indicated. The US Forest Service website offers an Educator Toolbox with background resources organized by grade level to help kids understand forests and grasslands as well as topics such as climate change or pollinators.

The site also offers professional development opportunities and resources for educators. One of its highlights is the National Inquirer journal geared towards middle school students, written by Forest Service scientists about their work.

Kids Gardening is an organization that has been doing the work to plant more school gardens around the US for decades! The group aims to create opportunities for kids to play, learn, and grow through gardening, engaging their natural curiosity and wonder.

Unsurprisingly, their website offers excellent resources to do this including lessons plans focused on garden activities arranged by grade level. TubeMate 3. Google Play. Adele convinces Spotify to remove shuffle from all albums. PS5 restock updates. Black Friday deals. Windows Windows. Most Popular. New Releases. Desktop Enhancements. Networking Software. Trending from CNET.

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White sand beach landscape on a sunny day with green palms near the seashore and a slightly cloudy sky above with the sun shining through. People sharing a warm drink around a camp fire in the early evening. Raindrops falling on the water of a lake seen in a close-up shot in slow motion, creating round ripples on the surface. Immense abundant trees in a forest seen from below on a sunny morning, as sunlight shines through the branches and trunks making lens flares. Top aerial shot of seashore with black shore rocks being hit by waves.

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Curvy road on a tree-covered hill, while cars cross it, seen on an aerial route. Lake in the savannah, seen through a bush of thin dry grasses, during a sunny afternoon, and with the horizon in the background with many trees.

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