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Who's in the Bag?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students express personal characteristics with items from home. They introduce themselves to one another.
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I Spy. What Do You See?

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students play "Veo, veo" (I Spy), a game from the oral tradition that incorporates the alphabet.
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May I?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders learn what a maypole is and how one is made. They write a paper about how one is made and how it be used on the playground.
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Teaching Tips: Team Building Activities for Elementary Students

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students access a variety of team-building related resources on the Internet. They examine cooperative games, collaborative artwork, create me-shirts, develop Venn diagrams, and create a classroom quilt and class welcome book.
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How To Save The Planet

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students work together in groups to create a book about how to save the environment. They are to research ways to help the environment and assemble them into the book. They can even design a cover if they choose.
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Wherever I Look

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students describe what they see in the world around them. They are to look in each direction to describe what they see. They prepare four panels of drawings of what they see with the sentence they wrote.
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Be A Curator -- Have an Art Show

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars examine the role of an art curator. They use any artwork they have done throughout the year and create an art show. They create an invitation to hand out to parents.
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Extreme Heat

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students, in groups, investigage and demonstrate the science behind the development and characteristics of extreme heat.
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Children's Health: Children Aren't Little Adults

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson is a compilation of interdisciplinary, technology-infused activities that focus on the often complicated and sometimes controversial issues related to toxic chemicals in children's environment. Special emphasis is placed on...
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John Muir: Long Ago and Now

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore nature objects brought indoors such as rocks, seeds, leaves and shells to identify where the objects came from. They hear stories about John Muir's life and make booklets about nature areas they enjoy.
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"Walk the Talk"

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students realize that it is critical that they not miss opportunities because they lack a required uniform. They discuss at length about the need for having active lifestyles even though they lack the appropriate clothers for the...
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Environment: Natural and Invasive Plants

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students examine a parcel of open land to collect data about the native and invasive plants found there. By monitoring the area, they prevent the spread of weeds through early detection. Students create posters describing the monitoring...
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Global, Environmental, & Outdoor Education Council: Homepage

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The goal of GEOEC is to promote professional development and support for teachers in teaching global and environmental topics. Resources include lesson plans, curriculum resources, articles and professional development opportunities.
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Princeton University

Princeton: Outdoor: Environmental Careers

For Students 9th - 10th
A guide to outdoor and environmental careers from Princeton University. Information on types of careers, books, and general resources.
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Family Education

Family Education: Outdoor Activities

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Outdoor Activities that also help children learn. But, just in case, there also some Rainy Day Activities listed.
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Texas Parks and Wildlife

Texas Parks and Wildlife: Outdoor Annual: Hunting

For Students 9th - 10th
Everything one would need to know about hunting in Texas. Hunting by season, animal, or county is covered, regulations and legal issues, hunter educational programs, species that can't be hunted, and licensing.
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National Outdoor Leadership School

For Students 9th - 10th
This school teaches outdoor skills and leadership and offers courses ten days to full semesters in the world's most spectacular wilderness classrooms.
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Rediscovering Rites of Passage: Education, Transformation, and the Transition To

For Students 9th - 10th
Rediscovery is an outdoor education program run in many First Nations. It uses a hands-on approach to learning based upon traditional cultural teaching allowing aboriginal youth to experience their cultural past in present day.
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Nature Discovery Center

For Students 9th - 10th
There are teacher workshops and kid's programs at this center with the purpose of outdoor education. You can visit kid's pages and adult programs.
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Audubon Center of the North Woods: Who We Are & What We Do

For Students 9th - 10th
This outdoor education center in east-central Minnesota has more than 500 acres along with a historical building. Find out what kind of classes and tours they have provided for you at this center.
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National Geographic

National Geographic: Programs: Chesapeake Bay Water Quality Project

For Students 9th - 10th
A project-based collaborative unit of study that teaches students about watershed health using real-time geospatial technology. Students engage in outdoor field experiences while using twenty-first century learning skills.
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Global Environmental and Outdoor Education Council: World of 100 (Simulation)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This simulation activity teaches students about the inequities in access to global resources, and our responsibility as global citizens to protect the rights and welfare of people around the world who may be impacted by our economic...
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Izaak Walton League of America: Programs for Youth

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Get your students outside with this collection of activities for kids of all ages featuring outdoor engagement and environmental education.
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Delaware Nature Society

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the Delaware Nature Society website who envisions a healthy and sustainable environment. Their mission is to connect people with the natural world to improve our environment through education, advocacy, and conservation.

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