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Parents & Teachers
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Smokey Bear
Smokey has his own website, with lots of fun stuff for kids of all ages!
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Every Kid Outdoors
Fourth Grade students have unlimited and free access to fee sites on Federally-managed lands for the year! As a fourth-grade educator or parent of a fourth grader, you can download an activity and print paper passes for each of your students!
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Discover the Forest
Discover the Forest wants you to know that it can be easy to give the outdoors to kids, and have put together a list of really wonderful activities that have all the information you need to get started--including what to do, what to bring, and what activities are near you!
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Agents of Discovery
Agents of Discovery is free, and provides a great way for kids to get out and explore where they live.
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Natural Inquirer
Want to learn more about the world around you? Check out these free magazines and activities to help you understand what it all means!
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Pollinator Partnership
Pollinators. We need them, and they need us. How can you be a part of an important story, and help our pollinators?
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U.S. Forest Service
Our Forest Service website has lots more kid stuff for you to explore!
More Ideas for the Classroom
- FSNatureLIVE! brings together webinars and information about pollinators, climate change, wetlands, bats, bird migration, butterflies and rainforests.
- North American Association for Environmental Educators has more than 5,400 links divided among 300 categories!
Lots of Educational Activities and Curricula
Project Wild - Project WILD links students and wildlife worldwide through curriculum, resource materials, educator workshops, and other means. It used by the Forest Service and a number of other federal and state agencies.
Project Learning Tree - Project Learning Tree (PLT) is the American Forest Foundation's environmental education program that produces curriculum materials for students in grades PreK-12. PLT provides training and professional development opportunities for teachers, non-formal educators, and teachers in training. The program addresses many environmental topics, but trees and forests receive special emphasis.
Project WET – Project WET is a program to educate people world-wide about water resources and water management. It supports its mission by providing water resource materials, conducting teacher training, and organizing community water events. It used by the Forest Service and a number of other federal and state agencies.
The Climate Change, Wildlife and Wildlands Toolkit for Formal and Informal Educators – Developed in 2001 by seven federal agencies, this kit is now available on the Web. It will aid educators in teaching how climate change is affecting our nation’s wildlife and public lands, and how everyone can become "climate stewards." Among the contents of the kit are: a 12 minute video, an overview of the science of climate change, case studies on 11 ecoregions, and classroom activities keyed to national science standards.
Conservation Education Websites
Hands on the Land - Hands on the Land is a national network of field classrooms connecting students, teachers, and parents to their public lands and waterways.
Citizen Science
Citizen science partners scientists with citizens to study science and conservation. Data collected by citizens – school children to senior citizens, is used in real science research projects. Data collection tasks are suitable for groups, individuals or families.
USA National Phenology Network - The network engages the help of citizens to monitor the impacts of climate change on plants and animals in the United States. The network harnesses the power of people and the Internet to collect and share information, providing researchers with far more data than they could collect alone.
Electronic Field Trips and Webcasts
America’s Rainforests - This site investigates rain forests in Puerto Rico, Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. It offers a webcast, lesson plans, activities and resource materials.
Migration Science and Mystery - Follow along on an electronic field trip tracing the flight of shorebirds over 6,500 miles from Panama to the Arctic Slope of Alaska. The website features lesson plans, activities, videos and more.
Monarch Live! - Join a distance learning adventure about monarch butterflies. During the 2008-09 school year, MonarchLIVE broadcast and webcast from several points along the migration. Those programs are available as archived video on this web site.
Pollinator Live - Participate in one of the 2010-11 school year the “Pollinator Live” webcasts to learn how the activities of bees and other pollinators result in one out of three bites of food you eat.
Especially for Families
Discover the Forest - Spending time in nature provides numerous benefits for families, presenting both bonding opportunities and the chance to instill a lifelong love for the outdoors. The Discover the Forest campaign, a public service campaign that encourages parents of tweens to experience the outdoors with their family to strengthen their connection with nature and each other.
Nature Lab – Nature Lab is The Nature Conservancy's youth curriculum platform.