Partner Resources
Our partners across the country are working hard to provide online resources to students, families, and everyone in between as we are all learning new ways to interact with each other during times of social distancing.
Captain Planet Foundation’s, Project Hero
- Pollinator Quest — Pollinators are under immense pressure from human behaviors, and they need our help to survive and thrive. Will you help Pollinators in the United States? Best suited for upper elementary students.
- Soil Quest — Human activities are increasingly making soil unhealthy and drastically changing some natural cycles that we and all living things rely on. Will you help the Soils of North America? Best suited for middle schoolers.
- Rocky Mountain Wolf Quest — Should gray wolves be reintroduced into Colorado? On this Quest, students become experts in the complex issue of wolf reintroduction equipped with scientific facts and empathetic to diverse opinions. Best suited for high school students.
Children & Nature Network
- Finding Nature — Use Children & Nature’s compiled list of resources to stay up to date with how to engage with the outdoors during COVID-19.
- Research Library — explore the latest peer-reviewed research that is helping advance the children and nature movement.
Dunes Learning Center
- Distance Learning Collection — DLC's Naturalists are hard at work creating interactive activities to explore your community, exercise your creativity, and even search for Sandsquatch!!
Friends of the Boundary Waters
- No Boundaries to the Boundary Waters -- FREE online resources that start at the computer but end in the outdoors. Click to learn how to explore and experience Minnesota's wilderness gem, the Boundary Waters Canoe Area.
Meet Minneapolis
- Minneapolis Digital Puzzles — Choose your favorite Minneapolis spot, and start puzzling!
National Audubon Society’s, Audubon for Kids!
- How to Draw A Bird — Stretch a new muscle to learn how to draw the birds flying around in your neighborhood
- 13 Fun Facts About Owls — Have you ever seen an owl? Maybe this list will help you spot one for the first time!
- How to Make a BIY Bird Feeder From Recycled Materials
Riversport
- Cardboard Canoe Challenge — A creative, hands-on family friendly project accessible to all ages! In this activity, your kids will design and build a canoe from a sheet of cardboard, markers, and tape. Resources available to adapt to be used as a STEM activity, too!
USDA Forest Service
- FSNatureLIVE — A phenomenal resource that provides lesson plans about the following topics: Smokey Bear, public lands, caves, climate change, fresh water-forests to faucets, grasslands, wetlands, bats, pollinators, monarchs, bird migration, America’s rainforests, shorebirds, and more!
- Nature Watch — Stuck at home? Explore incredible National Forests, learn about citizen science, and get inspired for your next adventure.
US Environmental Protection Agency
- How's My Waterway? — Want to investigate your local waterway? This is a great tool to learn about the condition of your local waters based on data that states, federal, tribal, local agencies and other have provided to EPA.
Wilderness Youth Project
- Resource Portal — Based in Santa Barbara, Wilderness Youth Project is sharing a variety of activities that help connect us to the natural world. Check-out their art projects, stories, natural recipes, and more!
- Nature Link — Sign up to participate in Nature Link, Wilderness Youth Project’s Virtual Nature Mentoring Program