List of 19 podcasts that you can listen to with children, all of the podcasts are science related. Each listing has a description of the podcast.

Access Recreation, a Portland-based organization compiles detailed trail information for hikers of all abilities and experience levels. The trail reviews don't intend to identify trails which are considered ADA accessible, but rather to share information about select trails of interest, as they are, so people with disabilities can make their own determination about whether to try a trail or not.

Online guide to birds and bird watching, includes a feature to ID birds, information on how to house them, feed them, live cams, and online courses.

This page aims to bring together activities from across Audubon's national network of environmental educators, including the classroom curriculum Audubon Adventures, plus related DIY activities and content from Audubon's editors. These activities can be done at home or in a yard or park, sometimes with the help of a computer.

Brains On is a science podcast for curious kids and adults. Each week, a different kid co-host joins Molly Bloom to find answers to science questions about the world. The mission is to encourage kids' natural curiosity and wonder using science and history.

The Childrens Forest of Central Oregon is a network of 25+ public, private, and non-profit organizations working to connect children and families to nature through learning, exploration, and play. They have a strong focus on equity and inclusion, working to connect underserved audiences to impactful experiences in nature.

Confluence connects the history, living cultures, and ecology of the Columbia River system through Indigenous voices. The library contains stories, audio recordings, articles, videos, and image galleries of Indigenous voices and experiences.

Earthday.org’s mission is to diversify, educate and activate the environmental movement worldwide. Growing out of the first Earth Day in 1970, Earthday.org is the world’s largest recruiter to the environmental movement, working with more than 150,000 partners in over 192 countries to drive positive action for our planet. .

EEAO strives to cultivate environmental literacy and engagment among diverse community leaders in Oregon. The organization is a network of educators, administrators, resource professionals, nature centers, environmental educators, and volunteers in the field of environmental education.

Feeder Watch is a citizen science project survey of birds that visit backyards, nature centers, community areas, and other locales in North America. There are resources for getting started, bird IDs, feeder cams, and a blog to help connect people.

The High Desert Museum provides educational opportunities for students and educators, including self-guided visits, online resources, kids camps, kits, educator resources.

This website is a wonderful free resource for all educators who want to incorporate Nature Journaling into their adventures outside. Nature Stewardship through science, education, and art.

Latino Outdoors is a Latinx-led organization working to create a national community of leaders in conservation and outdoor education. They are focused on expanding and amplifying the Latinx experience in the outdoors; providing greater leadership, mentorship, and professional opportunities while serving as a platform for sharing cultural connections and narratives that are often overlooked by the traditional outdoor movement. .

This illustrated collection of essays addresses topics related to Oregon's forests, including wildlife, forestry and tree biology. The one-page essays were written by a team of natural resources specialists and then reviewed by teachers for content and readability and scientists for accuracy. Each essay includes reading comprehension questions.

Oregon Forest Resources Institute offers support to classrooms who have limited resources to access field studies, and will offer compensation towards travel fees.

Monarch Watch strives to provide the public with information about the biology of monarch butterflies, their spectacular migration, and how to use monarchs to further science education in primary and secondary schools. They engage in research on monarch migration biology and monarch population dynamics to better understand how to conserve the monarch migration.

Website with natural science resources for kids, including games, videos, animal exploration, and brain boosters.

National Wildlife Day serves to bring awareness of endangered animals nationally as well as globally, that need to be preserved and rescued and highlights organizations that strive to do that every day.

The Natural Inquirer program produces a variety of science education materials for PreK through grade 12. Natural Inquirer products are produced by the USDA Forest Service, FIND Outdoors, and other cooperators and partners.

The NAAEE uses education to advance environmental literacy and civic engagement to create an equtiable and sustainable future. It provides a platfrom for all in the environmental education field to network, connect, and share resources and knowledge through conferences, blogs, eePRO groups, and newsletters.

The goal of this Oregon Environmental Literacy Program (OELP) publication is to encourage and support educators who use or want to use the outdoors as an integral part of the teaching and learning experience for their students.

ODE collection of resources to support edcuators, including teacher licensure, family engagement, educational standards, Oregon mentoring project, and teaching materials.

Oregon Environmental Literacy Program's resource directory - resources to support teachers, community educators, and the general public.

Bring your virtual classroom to life with animals from the Oregon Zoo. Each live video is accompanied by a kid-approved activity related to the featured animal.

Outdoor Asian's vision is to create a diverse and inclusive community of Asian and Pacific Islanders in the outdoors.

Pacific Education Institue offers resources and support for educators to equitably advance scientific literacy by promoting outdoor, locally relevant, integrated, career connected, real-world science.

PBS collection of life science educational resources, from interactive animated activities to videos, lesson plans, audio files, and images. Resources can be filtered by grade level and type . The

This is an awards winning preK-12 environmental education program. It is designed not only for teachers but for parents, informal educators, and community leaders. Project Learning Tree uses forests as 'windows on the world' to teach about concepts of organisms, habitats, ecosystems, forestry and other human influence on the natural environment.

The alignment to standards page shows how Project Learning Tree aligns to National Standards, State Correlations, Green Schools, Early Childhood, and Nonformal Programs.

Project Learning Tree's Energy & Society Kit offers K-8 students opportunities to learn about their relationship with energy and helps develop their critical thinking skills to make decisions about their personal energy use. In addition to hands-on activities, this curriculum integrates music and dance to enhance the study of energy issues.

PLT’s new Explore Your Environment: K-8 Activity Guide includes 50 hands-on, multidisciplinary activities to connect children to nature and increase young people's awareness and knowledge about their environment. Activities integrate teaching about the environment into a multitude of subjects using hands-on classroom studies and outdoor field investigations. The guide is user-friendly, and works in classrooms and nonformal settings, in urban, suburban, and rural areas.

Project Learning Tree offers GreenWorks! grants to schools and youth organizations for environmental service-learning projects that link classroom learning to the real world. Students implement an action project they help design to green their school or to improve an aspect of their neighborhood's environment.

Project Learning Tree's guide features 96 hands-on interdisciplinary activities on environmental topics including forests, wildlife, water, air, energy, waste, climate change, invastive species and more. Each activity is tailored to specific grade levels and learning objectives. The materials provide educators the tools they need to bring the environment into their classrooms and their students into the environment.

Project Learning Tree's monthly e-newsletter is free for all educators and includes free tools and resources, new lesson plans, professional development and grant opportunities, and tips from educators for teaching about the environment.

Project Squirrel offers people a chance to become citizen scientists! They can submit squirrel observations to help sicentists learn more about squirrels.

Growing Up WILD offers a list of nonfiction and fiction books for kids. Includes a list of where to purchase the books, as well as some early childhood organizations.

Whether you are home-schooling or looking for resources to keep your kids learning all year, Project WILD has resources for you and your learners, includes abbreviated activities PreK-12 and a children's book list along with other resources.

Rethink Outdoors misson is to increase the equitable access to the benefits of time spent outdoors and to bring more resources and action towards the advancment of this mission.

SOFEE is an education and outreach collaborative centered on wildland fire science as a pathway into ecology, preparedness, and wildfire recovery for vulnerable populations and southern Oregon communities. They offer a K-12 wildland fire science curriculum adapted from FireWorks! at no cost.

The Diack Ecology Education program is a program of the Oregon Science Teachers Association. It offers grants, workshops, and resources to educators in Oregon to ecourage them to get their students involved with field-based science inquiry.

NEEF is the nations leading organization in environmental education, creating opportunities for people to experience and learn about the environment in ways that improve their lives and the health of the planet. Their work includes K-12 education, conservation, health, grants, online courses and resources.

The Oregon Zoo's goal is to insipre their vistors to creatd a better future for wildlife. In addition to in-person visits, they offer at-home activities and virtual encounters.

Trauma-Informed Toolkit supports and complements educators' knowledge and skillset in implementing trauma-informed approaches in educational settings. A PLT lesson on fire is used as an example of applying a trauma-informed lens. 

Wild Diversity helps to create a personal connection to the outdoors for Black, Indigenous, all People of Color (BIPOC) & the LGBTQ+ communities, through outdoor adventures and education. Wild Diversity's Youth Ecology Summer Days is our program providing BIPOC youth in grades 6-8th with holistic connections to ecology, conservation and outdoor resilience.

World Ocean Day supports collaborative conservation, working with its global network of youth and organizational leaders in >140 countries, and providing free and customizable promotional and actionable resources. World Ocean Day is powered by the World Ocean Day Youth Advisory Council.

List of 19 podcasts that you can listen to with children, all of the podcasts are science related. Each listing has a description of the podcast.

Access Recreation, a Portland-based organization compiles detailed trail information for hikers of all abilities and experience levels. The trail reviews don't intend to identify trails which are considered ADA accessible, but rather to share information about select trails of interest, as they are, so people with disabilities can make their own determination about whether to try a trail or not.

The goals of the African American Outdoor Association are to conduct active outdoor excursions that encourage African Americans to explore the natural environment. Promote healthy living by encouraging families to shift to physically active lifestyles. Increase knowledge and appreciation of the beauty and natural resources of the Pacific Northwest, and build community around active living.

Online guide to birds and bird watching, includes a feature to ID birds, information on how to house them, feed them, live cams, and online courses.

The Arbor Day Foundation strives to make our world a greener and better place to live by educating people on the importance of trees, including Tree Campus K-12 resources.

This resource is a printable Bingo card for elementary students that they can use right ouside their door.

Budburst is a community approach to plant conservation, its headquaters is the Chicago Botantical Garden. People can participate in projects, contribute to research, collaborate with fellow community scientists, and discover nature.

Confluence in the Classroom has connected students to place through art and education by introducing them to native artists and culture bearers from the Chinook Nation, Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, Yakama Nation, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, and Nez Perce Tribe. Together, native educators, students, and teachers embark on a year-long learning journey. Field trips to sites with significant environmental and cultural stories are highlights of these journeys.

Free online course that supports outdoor educators in engaging with culturally responsive incorporation of indigenous studies concepts into outdoor education curriculum and programming. While outdoor school programs in Oregon serve fifth and sixth grade students, course content applies broadly to all outdoor and experiential education.

Environment for the Americas grew out of the success of International Migratory Bird Day, whcih celebrates migratory birds throughout Canada, the United States, Central and South America, and the Caribbean. The website offers virtual field trips, resource directly, training, outreach to LatinX Communities, and bird IQ activities and quizzes.

Families in Nature is an outdoor education program. Their vision is to inspire all families to fall in love with nature and foster the next generation of conservationists. Activities are aimed at teaching children and their parents about ecology and conservation through hands-on experiences in nature, while they spend quality family time together.

The High Desert Museum provides educational opportunities for students and educators, including self-guided visits, online resources, kids camps, kits, educator resources.

IEN is an alliance of Indigenous Peoples whose Shared Mission is to Protect the Sacredness of Earth Mother from contamination & exploitation by Respecting and Adhering to Indigenous Knowledge and Natural Law.

Justice Outside’s programs provide both established and aspiring outdoor professionals with the skills necessary to transform the environmental field into a more equitable and culturally relevant sector. Programs include training and support, cultural relevancy workshops for decision-makers at outdoor-focused organizations, Rising Leaders Fellowship, and Outdoor Educators Institute. Additionally, they offer a grant program prioritizing funding for programs led by Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.

Latino Outdoors is a Latinx-led organization working to create a national community of leaders in conservation and outdoor education. They are focused on expanding and amplifying the Latinx experience in the outdoors; providing greater leadership, mentorship, and professional opportunities while serving as a platform for sharing cultural connections and narratives that are often overlooked by the traditional outdoor movement. .

Collection of forest education resources for K-2, including field programs, teacher professional development, publications, and curriculum.

Talk About Trees is an interactive, science-based program for pre-school through eighth grade students. Programs are presented by experienced facilitators and offered free to classrooms throughout Oregon.

Mystery Science offers lesson plans specifically for distance learning for grades K-5. The plans have exit tickets, digital handouts and assigments, and it can be easily integrated into Google Classroom.

Collection of free virtual tours of U.S. National parks that are interactive and dynamic. Powered by Google Earth.

The Schoolyard Habitats guide helps educators plan, build, and maintain a schoolyard garden.

The Natural Inquirer program produces a variety of science education materials for PreK through grade 12. Natural Inquirer products are produced by the USDA Forest Service, FIND Outdoors, and other cooperators and partners.

The NAAEE uses education to advance environmental literacy and civic engagement to create an equtiable and sustainable future. It provides a platfrom for all in the environmental education field to network, connect, and share resources and knowledge through conferences, blogs, eePRO groups, and newsletters.

The goal of this Oregon Environmental Literacy Program (OELP) publication is to encourage and support educators who use or want to use the outdoors as an integral part of the teaching and learning experience for their students.

ODE collection of resources to support edcuators, including teacher licensure, family engagement, educational standards, Oregon mentoring project, and teaching materials.

Oregon Environmental Literacy Program's resource directory - resources to support teachers, community educators, and the general public.

Oregon Parks Forever has a grant program called Ticket2Ride, which offers 3rd-5th grade students in Title I schools access to Oregon parks for experiential learning.

Bring your virtual classroom to life with animals from the Oregon Zoo. Each live video is accompanied by a kid-approved activity related to the featured animal.

Outdoor Asian's vision is to create a diverse and inclusive community of Asian and Pacific Islanders in the outdoors.

Pacific Education Institue offers resources and support for educators to equitably advance scientific literacy by promoting outdoor, locally relevant, integrated, career connected, real-world science.

PBS collection of life science educational resources, from interactive animated activities to videos, lesson plans, audio files, and images. Resources can be filtered by grade level and type . The

This is an awards winning preK-12 environmental education program. It is designed not only for teachers but for parents, informal educators, and community leaders. Project Learning Tree uses forests as 'windows on the world' to teach about concepts of organisms, habitats, ecosystems, forestry and other human influence on the natural environment.

Project Learning Tree's Youtube Channel features a collection of short videos, each one designed for families at home who are interested in learning about nature in their own backyards. Project Learning Tree uses forests as 'windows on the world' to teach about concepts of organisms, habitats, ecosystems, forestry and other human influence on the natural environment.

Biodiversity Blitz is a downloadable, password-protected PDF for educators of students in grades 3-5 that invites young learners to investigate the variety of species in an ecosystem, and how this variety or biodiversity helps sustain life on Earth. Three hands-on activities, with an emphasis on science, English language arts, math and social studies.

Designed for 3rd-5th grade teachers, the Energy in Ecosystems e-unit investigates ways in which organisms depend on each other to survive and thrive. Students focus on forests (one of the largest and most complex types of ecosystems) and come to understand some of the interactions present in all ecosystems.

PLT’s new Explore Your Environment: K-8 Activity Guide includes 50 hands-on, multidisciplinary activities to connect children to nature and increase young people's awareness and knowledge about their environment. Activities integrate teaching about the environment into a multitude of subjects using hands-on classroom studies and outdoor field investigations. The guide is user-friendly, and works in classrooms and nonformal settings, in urban, suburban, and rural areas.

Project Learning Tree's guide features 96 hands-on interdisciplinary activities on environmental topics including forests, wildlife, water, air, energy, waste, climate change, invastive species and more. Each activity is tailored to specific grade levels and learning objectives. The materials provide educators the tools they need to bring the environment into their classrooms and their students into the environment.

Trillion of Trees is a downloadable, password protected PDF for educators of students in grades 3-5 that invites young learners to investigate the unique characteristics of different tree species and how best to plan, plant, and care for trees in their community.Designed to be flexible, the activities can be used as stand-alone lessons, or all together as a cohesive unit of instruction using a storyline technique.

Project WILD's mission is to provide wildlife-based conservation and preK-12 environmental education that fosters responsible actions toward wildlife and related natural resources. All curriculum materials are backed by sound educational practices and theory, and represent the work of many professionals within the fields of education and natural resource management from across the country.

Using wildlife as an integrating context can help make teaching about climate change more concrete. Use best practices in climate change education and gain access to quality, science-based, wildlife management principles that address this complicated issue. Your students will be outdoors, interacting with one another and the community, and learning from trusted sources.

Whether you are home-schooling or looking for resources to keep your kids learning all year, Project WILD has resources for you and your learners, includes abbreviated activities PreK-12 and a children's book list along with other resources.

As universities, colleges, and schools move to learning online in the wake of the coronavirus spread, many educators are interested in how to conduct WILD activities remotely. Project WILD has adapted a number of their activities to be online, includes ideas and resources to guide students through WILD activities at their own location.

Scientific American's education section has a series of activities for kids 6-12 on various science related topics. Activities take half an hour or less.

SRI uplifts and strengthens communities by connecting inner city youth and veterans to the outdoors, harnessing incredible opportunities and powerful experiences that forge strong connections between youth and veterans, their communities, and the natural world.

K-12 materials and professional development for educators that is all about natural science.

The Gray Family Foundation's goal is to engage Oregonians to become active stewards of their communities and natural environments, including a grant program, and K-12 summer programs.

Explore fun games, contests, and activities for parents and kids to do together.

The Wonder of Science supports next generation science teachers. The website aggregates resources developed by Paul Andersen and other science teachers implementing the Next Generation Science Standards* (NGSS), including mini-lessons, videos, and phenomena exploration.

The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed March 3 World Wildlife Day in order to celebrate and raise awareness of the world's wildlife and plants.

Wild Diversity helps to create a personal connection to the outdoors for Black, Indigenous, all People of Color (BIPOC) & the LGBTQ+ communities, through outdoor adventures and education. Wild Diversity's Youth Ecology Summer Days is our program providing BIPOC youth in grades 6-8th with holistic connections to ecology, conservation and outdoor resilience.

World Ocean Day supports collaborative conservation, working with its global network of youth and organizational leaders in >140 countries, and providing free and customizable promotional and actionable resources. World Ocean Day is powered by the World Ocean Day Youth Advisory Council.

List of 19 podcasts that you can listen to with children, all of the podcasts are science related. Each listing has a description of the podcast.

Accessible Adventures in the Pacific Northwest is a series of videos produced by the US Forest Service to make the outdoors accessible to all through videos and also test how accessible each of the sites are for people with physical limitations. It explores trails in Washington and Oregon.

Online guide to birds and bird watching, includes a feature to ID birds, information on how to house them, feed them, live cams, and online courses.

The Arbor Day Foundation strives to make our world a greener and better place to live by educating people on the importance of trees, including Tree Campus K-12 resources.

Budburst is a community approach to plant conservation, its headquaters is the Chicago Botantical Garden. People can participate in projects, contribute to research, collaborate with fellow community scientists, and discover nature.

Confluence in the Classroom has connected students to place through art and education by introducing them to native artists and culture bearers from the Chinook Nation, Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, Yakama Nation, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, and Nez Perce Tribe. Together, native educators, students, and teachers embark on a year-long learning journey. Field trips to sites with significant environmental and cultural stories are highlights of these journeys.

Free online course that supports outdoor educators in engaging with culturally responsive incorporation of indigenous studies concepts into outdoor education curriculum and programming. While outdoor school programs in Oregon serve fifth and sixth grade students, course content applies broadly to all outdoor and experiential education.

Environment for the Americas grew out of the success of International Migratory Bird Day, whcih celebrates migratory birds throughout Canada, the United States, Central and South America, and the Caribbean. The website offers virtual field trips, resource directly, training, outreach to LatinX Communities, and bird IQ activities and quizzes.

Families in Nature is an outdoor education program. Their vision is to inspire all families to fall in love with nature and foster the next generation of conservationists. Activities are aimed at teaching children and their parents about ecology and conservation through hands-on experiences in nature, while they spend quality family time together.

The High Desert Museum provides educational opportunities for students and educators, including self-guided visits, online resources, kids camps, kits, educator resources.

IEN is an alliance of Indigenous Peoples whose Shared Mission is to Protect the Sacredness of Earth Mother from contamination & exploitation by Respecting and Adhering to Indigenous Knowledge and Natural Law.

Justice Outside’s programs provide both established and aspiring outdoor professionals with the skills necessary to transform the environmental field into a more equitable and culturally relevant sector. Programs include training and support, cultural relevancy workshops for decision-makers at outdoor-focused organizations, Rising Leaders Fellowship, and Outdoor Educators Institute. Additionally, they offer a grant program prioritizing funding for programs led by Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.