Our country is full of dazzling landscapes where you can play and learn. They protect our wildlife and resources. They let us look into the past and protect our history. Keeping them public supports a healthy planet.

Workforce and education activities to support the increase of deployed energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies. These activities include technology-specific workforce training, career visualization tools, energy education, and energy literacy.

Superhero TurfMutt & the Outdoor Powers teach kids and families backyard science, including how to take better care of the green spaces around them. With the activities in this hands-on science program, you can help them save the planet one yard at a time.

A 4th-grade classroom program to introduce your students to our nation’s natural and historical resources.

Green Up Our Schools is a Boulder based environmental 501 (c) (3) grant program dedicated to reducing elementary school waste by empowering students to lead waste reduction and recycling projects within their school.

The Forest Service’s conservation icon, Woodsy Owl, conservation education resources for young students. Resources available include posters, coloring pages, resource guides, and more. 

This site includes the Natural Inquirer journal for middle and high school students; the Investi-gator journal for upper elementary and middle school students; and Natural Inquirer Readers for grades Pre-K-2, all based on Forest Service scientists’ work. Articles tell about research concerned with nature, trees, wildlife, insects, outdoor activities, water, and more. Students read about a specific research project. Finally, students become scientists when they do the FACTivity.

The USDA Forest Service, Prince William Network, and partners bring nature learning to you through a series of webcasts, webinars, and online education resources. No matter where you are in the world, visit FSNatureLIVE programs for exciting, on-site learning about bats, butterflies, climate change, wetlands, water, and more.

Discover the forests that are right in your neighborhood. Beyond the swings, slides and clearings, there are trails, trees, wildlife and water just waiting for you. Engage your senses, spend some quality family time and expand your imagination with activities, including some from PBS KIDS Plum Landing.

AmeriCorps Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA): Public, private, or faith-based nonprofit organizations, as well as, local, state, or federal agencies can become an AmeriCorps VISTA sponsor. AmeriCorps VISTA members spend one year in full-time service to address the needs of low-income communities. All projects focus on building permanent infrastructure in organizations to help them more effectively bring individuals and communities out of poverty. Click here to learn more about how you can host an AmeriCorps VISTA member in your environmental and energy conservation work.

Each year, AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) engages teams of members in projects in communities across the United States. Service projects, which typically last from six to eight weeks, address critical needs related to natural and other disasters, infrastructure improvement, environmental stewardship and conservation, energy conservation, and urban and rural development. Learn more on how you can engage an AmeriCorps NCCC team in your environmental and energy conservation work.

Plum Landing is a PBS KIDS environmental science project, which offers educators and families fun and easy activities to get kids outside and connect to nature. Explore games, activities, and videos online at pbskids.org

Advancing civic learning and democratic engagement in both the U.S. and global contexts by encouraging efforts to make them core expectations for elementary, secondary, and postsecondary students—including undergraduate and graduate students.

Join educators around the country discovering new, digital resources to connect students with the environment.

An interactive game available on iOS and Android that educates students on different wildlife habitats.

Nature Explore supports your important efforts to connect children with nature

Dedicated to transforming schoolyards into dynamic centers for teaching & learning, health & fitness, environmental literacy and community life

GEF is calling on schools and groups to join the largest youth gardening initiative. The Green Thumb Challenge aims to connect children with nature and the healthy benefits of gardening as part of a nationwide movement to get kids growing.

The first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, activated 20 million Americans from all walks of life and is widely credited with launching the modern environmental movement. The passage of the landmark Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act and many other groundbreaking environmental laws soon followed. Growing out of the first Earth Day, Earth Day Network (EDN) works with over 22,000 partners in 192 countries to broaden, diversify and mobilize the environmental movement. More than 1 billion people now participate in Earth Day activities each year, making it the largest civic observance in the world.

Agriculture in the Classroom programs are implemented by state-operated programs. Agriculture in the Classroom supports state programs by providing a network that seeks to improve agricultural literacy — awareness, knowledge, and appreciation — among pre-K to 12 teachers and their students.

Discovery Education offers a broad range of free classroom resources that complement and extend learning beyond the bell.

The national parks are national treasures that belong to and need the help of everyone. Check out the examples below for ideas about how you can become more actively involved in the stewardship of these national treasures. Also, head over to the National Park Service's Get Involved web page for other ways to help.

The mission of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Teacher at Sea Program is to provide teachers hands-on, real-world research experience working at sea with world-renowned NOAA scientists, thereby giving them unique insight into oceanic and atmospheric research crucial to the nation. The program provides a unique opportunity for kindergarten through college-level teachers to sail aboard NOAA research ships to work under the tutelage of scientists and crew. 

National Wildlife Federation has worked to connect children and youth with nature for decades, inspiring children through Ranger Rick magazine, working with educators to get kids learning outdoors, and helping parents find new ways to engage their children outside.

The Division of Ocean Sciences faciliate collaborations and communications between ocean science researchers and educators. 

Does your school have what it takes to help protect the ocean for the future? Promote ocean conservation at your school or in your local community by becoming an Ocean Guardian School. 

The Office of National Marine Sanctuaries serves as the trustee for a network of 14 marine protected areas encompassing more than 170,000 square miles of marine and Great Lakes waters from Washington state to the Florida Keys, and from Lake Huron to American Samoa. The network includes a system of 13 national marine sanctuaries and the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument.