Activities For Kid Educators

Become a natural teacher.  Learn more about the cognitive benefits of nature experience.  Also learn how nature outings help reduce teacher burnout.  Resources include Green Teacher and the Learning with Nature Idea Book, published by the Arbor Day Foundation.

Ask your students to take the nature deficit disorder survey.

Green the K-12 curricula.  Check out Project Learning Tree, Project WILD and Classroom Earth.

Teach the teachers.  Take the lead and make sure everyone is up to speed.

Green the school yards.  Get the Schoolyard Habitat Project Guide and check out eco schools.

Establish an eco club.  Community service projects can include nonnative invasive plant removal, trail building, cleanup and trail maintenance.

Start a Salmon in the Classroom project.

Engage parents, physicians, landscape designers, businesspeople, and civic leaders to help the parks departments develop safe natural learning environments within walking distance of every school.  Include visits to parks and overnight camping trips in the curriculum.

Take a field trip to a farm sanctuary, fruit tree farm, fish factory.