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Community organizations offering educational programs & public events
Organizations focused on education about climate change
Government agencies actively conducting research on topics such as climate change, water conservation, soil conservation, and other related topics. Use these links in your classroom as reference for yourself and for your students.
Organizations focused on school gardens & nutrition education
Organizations to learn more about indigenous people of Santa Clara Valley and surrounding lands.
Unorganized organizations with descriptions...this section is still under construction.
The Green Schools National Network, a 501c3 non-profit organization founded in 2008, works with educators, government and non-governmental organizations and agencies, as well as private partners to create broad-based initiatives and successful strategies aimed at fostering healthy, sustainable K-12 schools across the United States. Founded by principals, superintendents, and teachers, GSNN is devoted to accelerating student achievement through the implementation of green, healthy and sustainable practices as outlined in our GreenPrint® for Green, Healthy, and Sustainable Schools.
The Green Schools Initiative was founded in 2004 by parent-environmentalists who were shocked by how un-environmental their kids' schools were and mobilized to improve the environmental health and ecological sustainability of schools in the U.S. We believe it is essential to protect children's health - at school and in the world beyond school - and we work to catalyze and support "green" actions by kids, teachers, parents, and policymakers to reduce the environmental footprint of schools by: Eliminating toxics, Using resources sustainably, Creating green schoolyards and buildings, Serving healthy food, and Teaching environmental literacy and stewardship.
Nutrients for Life curriculum includes STEM activities and lessons that show how the challenge to feed our world's growing population can be solved with science. Digital downloads are free for anyone to use. We charge a small shipping fee for printed materials.
The Zooniverse enables everyone to take part in real cutting edge research in many fields across the sciences, humanities, and more. The Zooniverse creates opportunities for you to unlock answers and contribute to real discoveries.
The ocean is at the center of who we are. Even if you’ve never seen the ocean, you’re touched by it every single day. It produces half the air you and I breathe every day, the food we eat and the water we drink.
CDF and W offers a wide range of education programs, outreach campaigns, and reference materials.
Looking for classroom activities to use with your students? We encourage you to explore our online materials. You'll find exhibit-specific curriculum, related multimedia and additional resource links.
We offer a suite of Grades 3-12 curriculum resources in the form of curriculum guides, as well as online modules that can be downloaded for free.
Over 100 environmental variables are available using NOAA View, using data from NOAA's vast archives of satellites, climate models, and other observation devices.
A wealth of information for the classroom teacher on natural resource management including data and lesson ideas.
The Leaf Pack Network is an initiative of Stroud™ Water Research Center. The Stroud Center seeks to advance knowledge and stewardship of freshwater systems through global research, education, and watershed restoration. The Leaf Pack Network® is an international network of teachers, students, and citizen monitors investigating their local stream ecosystems. Through the Leaf Pack Experiment, monitors use tree leaves and aquatic insects to determine the health of their stream and to understand its ecology.
With engaging, hands-on activities, and authentic scientific research opportunities, BirdSleuth is an ideal way to teach science content and the scientific process. Your students will be at the center of the action, making first-hand observations, collecting data, and sharing what they’ve found with real scientists. Count on us to support inquiry learning in your classroom… linked to the outdoors!
In the award-winning, NSTA recommended Birds Without Borders, students analyze spatial and quantitative data, examine trends, make predictions, create management plans, and present and defend their results. Non-fiction texts and multimedia resources provide context and background for scientific exploration of real-world biodiversity data and issues in settings ranging from local to international.
Tap into over 130 years of USGS research in the natural sciences in the form of lesson plans and activities, maps, podcasts, online lectures, videos and animations, and much more. Browse thousands of ideas for using these resources in elementary, secondary, university, and informal education settings.
At the USGS EROS Center, we study land change and produce land change data products used by researchers, resource managers, and policy makers across the nation and around the world. We also operate the Landsat satellite program with NASA, and maintain the largest civilian collection of images of the Earth’s land surface in existence, including tens of millions of satellite images.
Explore natural phenomena and scientific practices with videos, lesson plans, and interactive tools.
Everyone should be able to look forward to a bright future where we all thrive within the means of our one planet. However, our economies are currently running a fraudulent Ponzi (or pyramid) scheme with our planet. We are consuming natural resources faster than they can regenerate; we are using the Earth’s future resources to operate in the present; we are digging ourselves deeper and deeper into ecological debt. The Footprint has grown from an initial research question to a common household phrase. Have students learn about there own ecological footprints and use data to make more sustainable decisions and so much more.
At BioInteractive, you can find award-winning multimedia resources, including apps, animations, videos, interactives, and virtual labs, to bring the excitement of scientific discovery into your classroom. Our rich video resources range from a series of short films on evolution, hosted by an award-winning author-scientist, to lectures on the brain given by a Nobel-prize winner—all supplemented by teacher guides and classroom activities. Our team members include scientists, artists, and educational experts.
We welcome all educators, near and far. Looking for teaching resources? Hope to bring your class on a field trip? You've come to the right place.
Our mission is to inspire scientific curiosity in students around the globe. We strive to increase student learning and to support science educators by pioneering technologies used to collect, analyze, and interpret scientific data.
Engage students about bees in a safe and sustainable way. Bees teach students about various subjects including math, physics, environment and agriculture.
SciStarter connects people to citizen science projects, citizen scientists, and resources. Real science we can do together.
Sustainability information on everyday products and services. Before you buy a product or service, learn more about its impact on the environment.
Social issue documentaries for your classroom, campus and community. We champion creative documentaries that promote new ideas, social change and human rights and contribute to classroom learning and beyond. We serve students, educators and communities.
From cities to farmlands, rivers to bayous, and beaches to mountains, the world around us is constantly changing. LandTalk is a citizen science and environmental history project that documents through interviews how local landscapes change over time. Its goal is to provide an opportunity for conversations between generations, and a chance to learn from observers about changes they have seen.
Here you will find a vast menu of K-12 grade level resources and NGSS aligned California based lessons in the fields of Agriculture, Conservation, Geologic Hazards, Geothermal, Mines and Minerals Resources, Oil and Natural Gas, and Tools and Technology.
Educators: Inspire your students with resources on genetics and cell biology from Nature Publishing Group, home of Nature, the most cited scientific journal in the world.
PurpleAir: Real Time Air Quality Monitoring
An air quality monitoring network built on a new generation of "Internet of Things" sensors
Use the environment to engage children in learning – both outside and indoors.
ALERTWildfire Network
ALERTWildfire is a 21st-century online firespotting system where the public can go to spot and report wildfires. ALERTWildfire uses near-infrared vision to locate smoke at a very early stage, allowing firefighters more time to assess the situation and mobilize appropriate resources, saving taxpayer money as well as our forests, grasslands, property and lives.
There are over 7 billion reasons to include population studies in your classroom. Whether you need a lesson plan covering a specific topic or a set of activities for Earth Day, we've got you covered.
The county offers many programs and services: Department of Environmental Health, Agriculture, Animal Services, Clean Water, Food Safety, Hazardous Materials, Waste Reduction, Green Initiatives, Solid Waster, Vector Control, and Weed Abatement.
Organizations that offer educational programs & public events
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