This website has a list of the 100 best nature books, identified by CNN, Forbes, and Inc-Book Authority. The list has a rating, a summary of the book, reviews, and where you can purchase the book.

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.

A Song of Frutas written by Margarita Engle tells the story of a girl and grandfather running a fruit stand. This book will teach young students about the names of fruits while older children will learn about the immigrant experience.

Agua, Agüita / Water, Little Water written by Jorge Tetl Argueta vividly tells the story of a water droplet that goes through the water cycle. Children will learn how water moves through the Earth and through the clouds.

All Around Us written by Xelena González tells the story of a young girl who asked her grandfather about nature. They move through topics such as family traditions, rainbows, the life cycle of plants, and lessons from Mother Nature. This book helps students to understand our relationship with nature.

I Know the River Loves Me / Yo sé que el río me ama written by Maya Christina Gonzalez teaches students about our relationships with nature through the story of a young girl who loves the water. As she narrates the story she describes her favorite river and how she feels when she’s near it.

The Sea-Ringed World: Sacred Stories of the Americas by María Garcia Esperón is a collection of captivating short stories inspired by the rich cultural heritage of the Aztec people. Young readers will explore the origins of the world and gain insight into the diverse cultural traditions of the Aztec civilization, spanning from coast to coast.

The Secret Footprints by Julia Alvarez recounts the tale of the ciguapas, mythical creatures from Dominican folklore who have backward-facing feet, leaving no trace behind. Through this enchanting story, students will learn about the importance of kindness and empathy.

The Weather / El tiempo written by Gladys Rosa- Mendoza uses colorful illustrations to teach young learners about the different types of weather using both Spanish and English.

Project Learning Tree created a list of Latinx and Hispanic-focused experiences in the outdoors. In this list, the books will explore concepts that may be familiar to educators of preschool to elementary-aged students, as well as tell stories that explore our relationship with nature. 

This website has a list of 50 nature books for children. Each book has a link that will lead to where the book can be purchased or accessed.

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.

This PDF divides Oregon into separate watershed districts. Each district lists several locations that rate restrooms, drinking water, fishing, hunting, camping, picnic sites, boat access, interpretive sites, views, and parking based on accessibility. Categories include ADA accessible, usable, available, and facilities nearby.

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.

This website features links that demonstrate the correlations between educational standards and Project Learning Tree activities, including National and State Standards, as well as early childhood and nonformal programs such as 4-H and Girl Scouts.

BEETLES provides resources for outdoor science programs, classroom teachers, and field instructors to improve the quality of outdoor science education.  BEETLES curriculum is based on five primary design principles; engage students directly with nature, think like a scientist, learn through discussions, experience instruction based on how people learn, and participate in inclusive, equitable, and culturally relevant learning environments. 

The Center for Geography Education in Oregon offers a range of activities and resources for students in grades K-12. Their materials cover a variety of topics, including biomes, longitude and latitude, natural hazards, and the histories of different countries. Each lesson plan is comprehensive, providing educational standards, suggested time frames, required materials, key vocabulary, background information, and additional resources.

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.

The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde offers two large maps (15 by 20 feet and 15 by 11.25 feet) available for schools to rent. These maps provide an interactive way for students to engage with the material being taught. They are available at no cost, with only a request form needed to secure a rental.

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.

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.

Creciendo WILD is an early childhood guide focused on nature and wildlife. It fosters children’s curiosity about the natural world while developing strong academic skills. The activities are entirely in Spanish.

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.

Case study exploring cultural relevance, equity, and inclusion in the outdoor and environmental education field. The publication summarizes lessons learned including inequitable participation patterns and provides tools and strategies.

Through the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Education website, you can access information on financial aid, Head Start programs, the immersion school, and more.

Through The Klamath Tribes’ website, you can access information about the Johnson O’Malley Program. This program provides financial support to K-12 students for any classroom or school-related activity or item they may need.

The Confederated Tribes of Coos, lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians’ education website page assist Tribal Members with their academic careers, whether through financial aid or supplemental learning activities. It has a section dedicated to K-12 students that provides information on tutoring, summer school, and student recognition dinners.    

The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde education  website page offers a section of various recreational activities, and features a curriculum. The curriculum covers subjects ranging from science to art through worksheets, presentations, exit tickets, and more for all grade levels.

The Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians education  website page provides various resources to help students excel academically. This includes information on supplemental education, scholarships, post-secondary education, childcare assistance, and more. It also offers a curriculum for grades K-11 that informs students about Siletz history, health, and traditions.

The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) Education Program focuses on integrating cultural practices and historical knowledge into all of their programs. They offer resources such as after school education, a CTUIR Language Program, and Title VI Youth Services to broaden the education and knowledge of Tribal Members.

Environment for the Americas grew out of the success of International Migratory Bird Day, which 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.

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.

Explora tu Ambiente offers 50 hands-on activities in Spanish, designed for students in grades K-8. This curriculum guide helps develop students' environmental knowledge and awareness through engaging activities both inside and outside the classroom. Formal and nonformal educators, and natural resource professionals can integrate these activities into existing curricula or programs.

Learning in Places is a collaborative network of families, educators, and community members working together to create a system for field-based science education in outdoor places. This website provides lessons for teachers and parents to use to teach their children/students about their local environment and ethical decision making.

The Indigenous STEAM Collaborative is a group of researchers and educators that engages in cognitive and community co-design research to advance general knowledge, develop pedagogical approaches for engaging youth in land- and water-based learning, and provide learning materials to Indigenous families. They apply what they learn to the development of learning tools for Indigenous youth and families, through collaboration with community organizations, educators, and families.

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.

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.

The North American Association for Environmental Education provides a series of resources that promote diversity and foster inclusion while teaching environmental science in the classroom. Resources range from reports, to stories, and websites.

K-12 lessons to share and enhance understanding of Karuk history, language, traditions, natural resource management and living culture following the cultural protocols of the Karuk Tribe.

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.

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.

The Indian Land Tenure Foundation created a curriculum for Pre-K through 12 educators to include Native American and Indigenous perspectives and stories into environmental science lessons.

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.

National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE) outlines the National Geography Standards designed to ensure students master three key geography skills: factual knowledge, mental maps and tools, and ways of thinking. NCGE aims for all students to achieve proficiency in each standard by the time they graduate from high school.

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

The National Museum of the American Indians provides educational materials, virtual student programs, and teacher training that incorporate Native narratives, more comprehensive histories, and accurate information to enlighten and inform teaching and learning about Native Americans.

The Native Plants and Foods Portal provides 5 educational toolkits that explore native and naturalized plants and foods from the Pacific Northwest region. This resource provides local Indigenous knowledge about the plants, and helps emphasize the relationships between you and plants, the community, and local areas. 

This source provides a lesson plan and accompanying video regarding multiple environmental scientific topics. The website also provides multiple different environmental resource lesson plans for students K-8, and are available in both English and Spanish. (Spanish translation: Competencia en video sobre ecosistemas para niños | Ciencias para 6°, 7° y 8° grado (generationgenius.com))

Accessible Nature provides a list of trails that are wheelchair accessible or are very easy for walking. Their goal is to make it easier for everyone to enjoy nature. Each trail states whether it is wheelchair accessible, if it has audio interpretive information or rope guides, and if the trail has any difficult steps including rocks or roots.

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

The Oregon Department of Education and Oregon’s nine federally recognized tribes have collaborated to create a curriculum specific to each tribe for Oregon public schools. The Klamath Tribes’ lessons for grades 1-3 focuses on C’waam and Koptu fish and the Klamath Basin. Grade 6 covers termination and restoration, while the 11th grade curriculum addresses the boarding school experience. The curriculum includes presentations, activities, worksheets, and videos.

The Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians offers a curriculum for grades one through eleven, aiming to deliver accurate representations of Native American histories and cultures to students throughout Oregon. The lessons cover a variety of topics, from significant historical events to traditions passed down through generations.

The Oregon Department of Education and Oregon’s nine federally recognized tribes have collaborated to create a curriculum tailored to each tribe for Oregon public schools. The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde curriculum grade band lessons cover all four main subjects: Math, Language Arts, Social Studies, and Science. Science topics encompass native plants, wildlife, land management, and more.

The Oregon Department of Education and Oregon’s nine federally recognized tribes have collaborated to create a curriculum tailored to each tribe for Oregon public schools. The Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians curriculum primarily focuses on social studies and language arts, with only a few science-related activities. It encompasses a range of topics, from the land each tribe owns to their traditions.

The goal of the Oregon Environmental Literacy Program is to support tea

TrailLink provides information such as trail descriptions, maps, photos, and reviews for all the wheelchair accessible trails in Oregon.

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.

A collection of trainings, pamphlets, videos, and worksheets to provide a foundation for social and climate justice education. 

Acorn Was a Little Wild teaches readers about the journey of a little acorn and how an oak tree goes through its life cycle in its environment.

Project Learning Tree has provided a series of art activities for students to use tools and materials found in nature to create a temporary art piece. These activities teach students about using creativity to make anything into art.

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's GreenSchools for Early Childhood program is designed to meet the needs of early childhood educators and younger learners. It is designed to teach young children about their environment and how they can make a difference, while developing their skills in language, mathematics, science, and more. PLT's GreenSchools for Early Childhood includes an Educator Guide and five Investigations.

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 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.

Treemendous Science is an e-unit for grades K-2. Students will explore, experience, observe, and collect tree data to develop understandings about how trees grow, the roles trees play in ecological systems, and the ways in which trees and humans interact.

Discover Floods teaches students why floods occur and how to react to one through several hands-on activities.

This educator guide provides 11 interactive, hands-on activities for children in grades Pre-k through 2. This activity book will teach children about various aspects of water such as water properties and water sounds. 

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.

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.

This website features links that illustrate the correlations between educational standards and Project WILD activities, including the Common Core State Standards, Next Generation Science Standards, Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework, NAEYC Early Learning Program Accreditation Standards and Assessment Items, AFWA's K-12 Conservation Education Scope and Sequence, Scout Badges, and more.

Resource that details how Project WILD activities in the respective curriculum and activity guides correlate to NGSS, Common Core State Standards, Head Start Early Learning Framework, Scout Badges, and many more.

Project Wild offers resources focused on inclusion and addressing diverse learning needs. This section of their resource page provides a range of materials, such as videos and guides, to support teachers in managing diverse classrooms. The aim is to ensure that all students are included and able to participate in Project Wild activities.

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.

Take Me Outside is an organization and website that provides activities and resources for kids to learn about their local environment while being outside. Take Me Outside also provides opportunities to attend workshops related to environmental education.

Webinar that covers what sheltered English instruction is and how to present information better to participants and students for whom English is not their first language. Includes tips and tricks that can be easily implemented into everyday instruction and real-world examples of successful techniques.

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.

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

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.

Disabled Hikers is a Disabled-led organization that provides information and resources that work towards building disability community in the outdoors. They advocate for justice, access, and inclusion within the outdoors. 

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. 

The Collaborative, Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) provides a free course about social and emotional learning and how it can connect to you and the students and/or children in your life. This course is provided in both Spanish and English.

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.

This resource provides educational trainings, resources, and community classes which help you grow and prepare wild edible and medicinal plants. GRuB provides multiple toolkits for K-12 educators to use when teaching about foraging and harvesting. 

GRuB’s Wild Food and Medicines Program provides educators with a toolkit to help students grow their social and emotional learning skills while learning about plants. This resource includes access to a curriculum about Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge and the Pacific Northwest’s native plants.