Outdoor Education
From planning a road trip around “rockhounding” opportunities to building your own outdoor play area, these fun family activities are guaranteed to spark your child’s interest in nature.
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.
Are you interested in pursuing a career in the outdoors, but aren’t quite sure where to start – or do you know someone else who dreams of working outdoors? Whether you’re hoping to forge your own path or are working with young people who are hoping to establish a career in the outdoors, TYO has tips on how to hone in on a career path and explore opportunities in outdoor recreation and conservation.
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.
The EnviroLink Network is a non-profit organization which has been providing access to thousands of online environmental resources since 1991.
Participate in this Eye of the Storm Scavenger Hunt to learn about components of the weather such as lightning, hurricanes, and tornadoes.
Kids love to play outside and explore nature! On this site you will find many ideas for nature activities for kids to do and create with nature.
Participate in this Hurricane Warning Scavenger Hunt to learn about hurricanes.