Develop your county camp counselor training program. Workshops led by camp counselor work team.
A resource for camp directors who need ideas for day trips as well as resources on how to improve your camp programs and help get the word out.
The EnviroLink Network is a non-profit organization which has been providing access to thousands of online environmental resources since 1991.
With Activity Finder, you can quickly filter through a wide range of activity ideas to help you connect with nature. Sort the ideas by child’s age, time available, cost, and other filters to find the activities that will most interest you and your family. Use activity finder to get the most out of your time to play outdoors, watch wildlife, and discover the wonder of nature.
No Time For Flashcards provides simple activities for young children that expose them to copious amounts of free play, exploration and discovery.
Ontario Ministry of Education offers curriculum documents spanning Kindergarten to Grade 12 and achievement charts to provide guidelines for assessing students' work.
A Guide for Developing and Implementing School-based Outdoor Skills Education.
Many of the lesson plans, projects, and games cited below have been developed by outdoor educators for use in different regions across North America. The materials at this site will help your approach to developing curriculum based outdoor education.
Alderleaf Wilderness College is a nature education center and wilderness survival school. This section of the site provides articles and information on outdoor education curriculum, wilderness leadership, and nature-based teaching.
Back Country Attitude is a website that provides fee curriculum and lesson plans for outdoor education. Within the lesson plans you can find games, worksheets and more!
Bradford Woods is an organization committed to improving the quality of life for people of all abilities by using its unique outdoor setting to provide education, therapy, and recreation. This document shows the curriculum for adventure education.
The Children & Nature Network offers resources for parents and teachers to learn more about what outdoor education is. The section of the site give resources to pdfs and videos that can help with an outdoor educational curriculum.
Dawn Publications is dedicated to inspiring children to have a deeper understanding and appreciation for all life on Earth. The part of the site gives free curriculum for teachers and parents to use alongside certain entertaining books!
Education Outside, a nonprofit organization, produced these engaging environmental activities for K-5 students. Although they're designed to be used during the school year, many of them can be easily adapted for a summer afternoon in the backyard.
Teaching for Change works to build social justice in the classroom by encouraging professional development and parent organizations and sponsoring the Cross City Parent Leadership Initiative that acts as an opportunity for parent coordinators and parents to gain the tools to facilitate effective family-school programs.
This webinar series is an opportunity for stakeholders representing national, regional, and local organizations to learn about family, school, and community, engagement research, best practices from the field, and new innovations that are making a difference in school improvement and student learning.
SEDL's National Center for Family and Community Connections with Schools links people with research-based information and resources that they can use to effectively connect schools, families, and communities. The Center provides three primary types of resources to assist researchers, practitioners, families and community members with finding and utilizing research based information people need to take action and make connections between schools, families, and communities.
National Center for Fathering is a nonprofit, scientific and education organization that offers research-based training for men in fathering situations through seminars and small-group training, a daily radio-show and turn-key easily implemented fathering programs.
The National Parental Information and Resource Center’s (PIRC) list of 62 PIRCs by state.
National PTA is a resource created to organize and support parent involvement in children’s education through family-school partnerships and information on getting ready for the new school year, healthy lifestyles and after-school programs.