September Activity Blog

Take your nature knowledge up a notch with Seek! Use the power of image recognition technology to identify the plants and animals all around you. Earn badges for seeing different types of birds, amphibians, plants, and fungi and participate in monthly observation challenges. Download it to students tablets or your phone to explore the schoolyard and learn what nature is right outside the building.

River Runner is a pretty fun tool to explore water where you’re at. It follows a drop of rain from its point of landfall to the lake or ocean. Simply click to drop your rain drop and watch the map move to follow the water!

Looking to add to or create a school garden? KidsGardening is proud to be partnering with the Klorane Botanical Foundation to offer the 2022 Budding Botanist Grant. Applicants must be planning a new or expanding an existing school garden program designed to teach students about environmental sustainability and the importance of biodiversity. Each grant recipient will receive a check for $1000 to spend on materials to help bring garden-based learning opportunities to students.

Minecraft: Education Edition offers a series of lessons focused on sustainability that can be used for free by educators and parents! Topics include sustainable food production, water treatment, recycling, sustainable foresting, and alternative energies.

What do we do when a global pandemic makes it more dangerous for large groups of adults and kids to stay indoors? Place-based education(PBE) has always been a powerful approach to learning, but now it’s also a powerful answer to COVID-19.

This booklet is designed to be the starting point for anyone getting ready to take the next step toward doing more PBE.