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Oregon Natural Resources Education Program (ONREP)

The Oregon Natural Resources Education Program (ONREP) provides opportunities for Oregon's K-12 educators to increase their understanding and knowledge about Oregon's forests, wildlife, and water through professional development workshops, courses, and institutes.

Emphasis is placed on integrating natural resources into exsisting classes and meeting state academic standards. Materials...

Outdoor Classroom Grant

This grant program distributes up to $1,000 to public, private or parochial schools interested in developing or enhancing an outdoor learning site, either on school grounds or at a nearby location. This program promotes interdisciplinary, hands-on instruction through conservation education in the out-of-doors. In addition, this program encourages awareness, appreciation, knowledge and active...

Outdoor Discovery Camp

The camp acquaints them with Maryland's state parks while fostering a feeling of responsibility and respect for our natural environment. Using the natural environment as a classroom provides enrichment that cannot be offered elsewhere. We make outdoor learning fun! The program utilizes adventure activities and environmental education through a week-long tent camping experience to foster an...

Outdoor Ethics Course

Changing an adult's ethical values is a difficult, but not impossible task. It has been proven that group communication produces positive results. Those who do change or even begin to think about their actions will find that making the decision to do right as opposed to wrong will become easier. Children, especially middle school age, are much more receptive to ethical training. The reason for...

Phys Ed Grants

This program from the Future Fisherman Foundation incorporates the benefits and rewards of fishing and/or boating into the physical education curriculum. Grants of up to $5,000, training programs, and other services are available.

Playa Country Radio Series

Playa Country Radio is a weekly 4-min radio program produced by the Playa Lakes Joint Venture (www.pljv.org). The program features the people, partnerships and programs that are making a difference in the conservation of wildlife habitat in the Southern Great Plains.

Playa Country airs on 31 public and farm radio stations, and can...

Playas: Reflections of Life on the Plains DVD or VHS

n an effort to raise awareness and conservation of these vital wetlands, the Playa Lakes Joint Venture produced the film, "The Playas - Reflections of Life on the Plains", in 2006 which available on DVD or VHS.

The 30-minute film illustrates the values of playas to wildlife, water and people, threats to the wetlands and how people are working to conserve them. The film features...

Project Webfoot

Project Webfoot is a wetlands education program for formal and non-formal educators. The program is a partnership between Ducks Unlimited and Project WET.

Mission
The mission of Project Webfoot is to promote responsible wetland stewardship through excellent and effective conservation education.

Core Beliefs:

PROJECT WET (Water Education for Teachers)

Project WET (Water Education for Teachers) is an international, interdisciplinary, water science and education program for formal and non-formal educators of K-12 students.

Since its inception in 1984, the program has attracted global interest. The goal of the Project WET program is to facilitate and promote the awareness,...

Project Wild

Project Wild and Project Wild Aquatic (Aquatic Wild) are supplementary curriculums for both in and outside of the classroom. The goal is conservation through education. Teacher trainings occur several times a year. Curriculum books are provided at no cost with the training.

Project Wild is a supplementary, interdisciplinary, instructional program for educators of students in...

Resource Lending Trunks

The IDNR Division of Education has 5 educational resource trunks available for checkout at numerous locations throughout Illinois.

For a listing of trunks available and locations please visit http://dnr.state.il.us/lands/education/CLASSRM/teach.htm

Safari in a Box

Are you looking for a Wildlife Adventure right in your classroom? The Safari in a Box is a kit filled with a variety of animal pelts, skulls, tracks, scat replicas, wildlife fact sheets, activities, videos and posters all neatly packaged in a large tote trunk. A guide to animal skulls, wildlife classroom activities and Project WILD materials are included. You must pick up the trunk and return...

Salmon project

The Salmon Project was designed as a classroom resource to open the animal world to each and every student at any grade, interest, or ability level. Students are able to make day to day observations and follow animal movements without disturbing or interfering with their normal behavior. The five species of salmon selected for this...

Schoolyard Wildlife Habitat Development

For formal and non-formal educators working in Illinois only.

How's your habitat?

Join us to learn how you and your students can take action to improve wildlife habitat on your school grounds. Educators of grades kindergarten through 12 will work with resource professionals to learn basic habitat design, development and maintenance techniques. Become aware of grant...

Sibley Nature Center Website

The website www.sibleynaturecenter.org is a comprehensive look at the ecology and history of the Llano Estacado of West Texas and Eastern New Mexico. 800 essays and 4500 photographs in 130 photoessays explore the region, its major organisms and history. Every bioregion should have a similar website --...

Take A Child Outside

Take A Child Outside Week is an international program designed to help break down obstacles that keep children from discovering the natural world. By arming parents, teachers and other caregivers with resources on outdoor activities, our goal is to help children across the country develop a better understanding and appreciation of the environment in which they live, and a burgeoning enthusiasm...

Texas Discovery Gardens @ Fair Park

Earthkeepers(R) Education Programs
http://www.texasdiscoverygardens.org/environmental_education.shtml

TogetherGreen Conservation Leadership Institute

National Audubon Society is pleased to invite applications for the new TogetherGreen Conservation Leadership Program. TogetherGreen is a major conservation initiative of Audubon, supported by a generous gift from Toyota.

The goals of the program are to nurture conservation leaders, achieve conservation results, and engage millions of Americans in conservation action. Over the next five...

Turkey Research Project

The Turkey Project began in the spring of 2004. This project involved trapping and applying a transmitter on an adult male turkey and following his movements.

Volvo Adventure

The Adventure begins again

A campaign project to rescue and revive an endangered and environmentally-sensitive urban park in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod has won the 2008 Volvo Adventure and the US$10,000 first prize, the five students of the ‘Green Sail' team, beating off stiff competition at the World Final in Gothenburg , Sweden this May.

Having won their own...

If it involves learning about conservation, environment, wild things and wild places, you'll find a place for it here.

  • Camps
  • Outdoor classrooms
  • Lesson plans
  • Natural science
  • Classroom speakers
  • Field trips
  • Workshops
  • Naturalists
  • Teacher training
  • Distance learning
  • Nature centers
  • Online games
  • Science projects
  • Conservation model
  • Outdoor skills
  • Wildlife habitat
  • Grants