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Fire in the Forest Simulation

Fire in the Forest

Fire in the Forest is an exciting and dynamic role-play simulation set in the Amazon rainforest. The simulation is designed to stimulate a fresh and wider understanding of the global significance of the Amazon and the urgent need to address its problems.

Black History Month 2022

NAAEE

During Black History Month and beyond, NAAEE shares the inspiration and strength of regional, place-based initiatives that address Black history in nature.

League for Green Leaders is an online climate-action competition for children in grades 3-8 that is empowering, playful and action-based. The goal of the program is to make climate action engaging, relevant, and solvable for children.

All We Can Save + Educator's Toolbox

The All We Can Save Project

Advance climate justice solutions in your classrooms by teaching All We Can Save with these educator resources.

The Talking Tree

The Morton Arboretum

Have you ever wondered what a tree would say if it could talk? The Tweeting Tulip Tree is an interactive social media platform in which a tree tells stories about its life in The Gateway to Tree Science exhibition at the Arboretum, provides scientific data from its monitors, and shares photos and videos of tree life at the Arboretum.

Learn how to transform climate anxiety into effective climate action in this video!

Think Like A Bathtub is a climate change education framework helpful for teachers who need climate curriculum connected to curriculum standards.

Natural Curiosity Self-Guided Learning Series

Natural Curiosity

This free program is designed for self-guided learning and includes a 5-part instructional video series that provides an introductory exploration of Natural Curiosity’s four-branch environmental inquiry framework, deepened by Indigenous perspectives.

Natage

This app aims to accumulate information in relation to the national wildlife heritage of Greece.

Counter Agriculture

The Counter Agriculture app is a useful tool for growers, agronomists and traders to share their knowledge.

A poetry film from The On Being Project featuring a poem written and read by Wendell Berry, with illustrations by Charlotte Ager and Katy Wang.

The Tree — A Poem for the Future of NAAEE

NAAEE

A beautiful, illustrated video written and narrated by Aimee Nezhukumatathil, featuring "The Tree — A Poem for the Future of NAAEE."

Systems thinking is a very powerful tool that can help us understand and teach about environmental issues. None of us naturally know about or practice systems thinking. A short video and two articles (one for educators, other for students/public) illustrate systems thinking in diverse contexts and highlight the very important concept of "emergent system properties." Visit https://drartscience.com/blog

This program is for teachers in grades 3-6 and uses snow and ice to explore topics in Earth Science, ELA, Math, Technology, Geography and Cultures. A free downloadable student journal is also available for ease of use in the classroom. Some of the activities in this program are inquiry based, allowing your students to ask and answer questions they have regarding the topic. Other activities require research or experiments to find answers you may pose. Some activities need to be completed outside, while others can be completed in the classroom.

English & Spanish Research Article: Disaster Risk Management: Competencies for a New Hydro-Environmental Culture

Uniciencia

Resumen del artículo, "Gestión de Riesgos de Desastres: Competencias para una Nueva Cultura Hidroambiental," que investiga metodologías y recursos didácticos para una nueva cultura hidroambiental en estudiantes y docentes costarricenses.
Research summary of study "Disaster Risk Management: Competencies for a New Hydro-Environmental Culture," which investigated methodologies and teaching resources for a new hydro-environmental culture for Costa Rican students and teachers.

Plant It! - Play and Reforest! App Game

Play the "Plant it" game, complete the tracks successfully and help us make our planet green again. More specifically, when the user has completed all the tracks of the game, he will have contributed to the purchase of real trees (amount is collected from in-game ads).

Children's Musical Play, Life is a Cycle on the Planet Earth

Created by me, Jack G. Maynard, Jr., musician and writer. I was involved in a yearly tree planting school program in Grand Rapids, MI and wrote two songs for it: Trees Breathe Life and Pass These Gifts Along. That inspired me to write a Musical for 4th through 8th grades. It has been performed at about 100 schools with always positive feedback. My goal was to make it easy to preform. It has been sidelined for the last 12 years and I'm excited to make it it available again. It's available on my website: http://www.livingearthpublishing.com. There you can find everything you need to produce the musical. You can order it in digital or hard copy formats: Director's Manual, Actors Books, Performance Music Tracks CD, Musical Soundtrack CD. and other items. It is a perfect for Spring Earth Day or Summer Music Camps as well as children's theaters.

The University of Michigan’s Center for Sustainable Systems (CSS) has researched and compiled a collection of outside resources, that K-12 educators can use to supplement some of the key sustainability topics found in CSS’s Sustainability Factsheet collection.

Por La Creación Faith-Based Alliance

Por La Creación Faith-Based Alliance

The Por La Creación Faith-Based Alliance is a network of Latino faith leaders around the US engaging to protect the nation’s natural resources

International Journal of Early Childhood Environmental Education (IJECEE) Volume 9, Number 1

NAAEE- NATURAL START ALLIANCE

Rethink play in nature for sustainable early childhood education. Engage with innovative approaches like Skills 4 Kids Cafes and student-authored children's literature. And more in this issue!

Collaborative card game based on climate change actions.

A comprehensive list of resources for EE with examples that I've used.

Redford Center Stories Program & Curriculum

The Redford Center

Redford Center Stories invites young people (particularly those in 5th-12th grade) to join a journey of learning that builds confidence for learning across any subject and puts them in the director’s seat to discover and articulate their wisdom as authors of humanity’s collective narrative.

Report: "Opportunities for Growth: Nature-Based Jobs in NYC"

New York City Environmental Justice Alliance

A new report from Just Nature NYC, a partnership between the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance and The Nature Conservancy in New York Cities Team