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PureEdge: Resilience Strategies and Resources

Pure Edge Inc. has created a free resource page for educators and youth to cultivate resilience through mindfulness practice. Read More

Teachers’ Resource Centre

A website dedicated to teachers, with this specific page delving into child behavior and how to deal with challenges. Read More

Seed Catalog Fun

Seed cataloging is a great way to engage students, even when the weather prevents them from being outside. Use this activity download from Kids Gardening to help students engage in indoor STEM. Read More

Red Panda Network: Kids Page

The Red Panda Network’s Kids Page invites children to be involved in Red Panda facts and conservation. On this site, children can become official Red Panda Rangers, learn red panda facts, and explore fun activities. Discover the many ways you can help save Red Pandas! Read More

Realize the Dream MLK Day Kit

100 for 100. Realize the Dream is sponsoring a powerful movement to unify, transform, and uplift America in honor of Dr. King’s 100th birthday. The goal is 100 million hours of volunteer service by the 100th anniversary of Dr. King’s birth. This toolkit helps support the movement. Read More

HOPE Resources

HOPE (Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences), in partnership with Tufts Medical Center, has created a resource page to support care providers with a new way of talking about and seeing the experiences that support children’s growth and development. Resources are available in multiple languages and topics. Read More

Holidays Around the World Sensory and Art Activities

Pocket of Preschool has created multiple activities that bring awareness to holiday celebrations around the world for early learners. Activities include sensory and art activities with minimal preparation and easy clean up. Read More

Decision Making Tool and Guide

Headwaters Foundation for Justice has prepared a decision-making tool and guide, one that they use as an organization to ensure that input is offered and given from all partners. Read More

Holiday Celebrations Around the World

Google Arts & Culture has created a landing page to explore the holiday celebrations around the world. Read More

City Nature Challenge

Though it started as a competition between Los Angeles and San Francisco, California, in 2016, the City Nature Challenge (CNC) has become an international event! As part of a four-day global bioblitz, the CNC invites communities to participate by finding and documenting wildlife in their own cities. Read More

North American Butterfly Association: Butterfly Counts and Garden Certification

Since 1993, the North American Butterfly Association has run the Butterfly Count Program to track and count butterflies observed in the region. NABA invites communities and community programs to get involved through their Butterfly Count Program and Butterfly Garden Certifications to increase awareness and ensure that butterflies thrive. Read More

CornellLab eBird

The CornellLab eBird invites users to discover a new world of birding through their conservation website and the free eBird Mobile app. Engage youth in the eBirder monthly challenges and encourage them to observe their environments for our sky-bound friends. Read More