New Jersey Eco-Schools Exemplify the Benefits of Funding Programs
Seek Academy students are eager to care for their new garden. Photo by Uzma ChowdhuryMaking schools more sustainable benefits our communities, our environment, wildlife, and our students. But it...
View ArticleMissoula Garden Fosters Healthy Living for Kids and Wildlife
Children enjoy their free play outdoors on this hill feature. Photo: Loraine BondThe kids at The Parenting Place have gone over the hill. And under it. Constructed last summer by volunteers, a tunnel...
View ArticleThe National Wildlife Federation Teams Up for School Garden Project
The National Wildlife Federation’s Rocky Mountain Regional Center recently partnered with TIAA-CREF, a financial institution that helps people in the academic field, for one of its 2015 employee...
View ArticleMonarch Heroes Taking Flight in Texas
Monarch feeding on Prairie verbena. Photo by Marya FowlerMonarch Heroes Program Launched in 15 schools in Texas To help build awareness and reverse monarch decline in Texas, NWF launched our Monarch...
View ArticleDiscovery Hill: An Outdoor Learning Laboratory
The importance of children having outdoor learning spaces at schools is well established. Outdoor classrooms are effective for applied science education, inquiry-based learning, physical and emotional...
View ArticleUSA and Taiwan Students Work Together to Address Environmental Issues
National Wildlife Federation’s Eco-Campus Partnership Program is a high-quality collaborative educational experience for students from diverse cultures whose aim is to increase environmental literacy...
View ArticleThree Steps to Supercharge Your Bedtime Stories with Wildlife
It waits in the dark, beady-eyed and skulking under the shadow of a flat river rock. Wrinkled, murky gray-green-brown, the beast oozes slime in the shallows, ready to lunge at an unsuspecting five-year...
View ArticleWhere is Everyone? Growing the Next Generation Outdoors
Pretty sure that is a look of pure happiness about eating dinner outside on a dock #ProveRonaWrong. Photo shared by Allyson GibsonThe drumbeat of news about kids in nature is bad – childhood has...
View ArticleNew Outdoor Childcare Regulations Enacted in Texas
We have a new policy leader in early childhood environmental education: The Texas Workforce Commission. That’s right. This spring, following behind the scenes advocacy by National Wildlife Federation...
View ArticlePennsylvania Schools: Leading the Way to a Sustainable Future
Long before the US Green Ribbon Schools Award was established, there were ‘green guardians’ of schools and universities. These folks arrived to campus early, left late, and spent countless weekends and...
View Article5 Under 5: Add (Lightweight) Fun To Your Campout
Now that Great American Campout season is underway, I’ve got outdoor fun on my mind! As much as I love to unplug and relax when I’m out on the trail, when I take a trek with my niece and nephew, I have...
View ArticleMissoula’s Clark Fork School Plants Trees for Wildlife
Missoula’s annual UnPlug and Play Week, hosted by Let’s Move! Missoula, aims to reconnect kids and their families with nature and outdoor activity. Working with National Wildlife Federation’s...
View ArticleFamily Fun Tips for the Great American Campout
Starting June 27, National Wildlife Federation is kicking off a season of camping with this year’s Great American Campout. You may have seen our new spokesperson, wildlife fan and great American Nick...
View ArticleWe’ve Got Problems, They’ve Got Solutions: 2015 Young Reporters for the...
Did you ever wonder how your community deals with invasive species like Kudzu? How about what GMO’s really are and why they are of concern? What about how communities are dealing with Styrofoam? Did...
View ArticleTeaching a Kindergarten Class in the Great Outdoors
How many children get to say that they spent the morning not only in the great outdoors, but doing their part to help wildlife as well? One perfectly sunny, but breezy day in May, my kindergarten class...
View ArticleStudents at NWF Eco-School Help Monarchs
Click here to view the embedded video. It doesn’t get more heartwarming than this. Students at PS 179 in Brooklyn are learning about the life cycle of monarch butterflies and helping this declining...
View ArticleBronx Eco-School’s Earth Day Event Showcases Many Aspects of Sustainability
Danny Steiner helping students learn gardening practices. Photo by Paula Hewitt AmramBronx Theater High School is one of eight schools on the John F. Kennedy (JFK) Campus. The JFK Campus building...
View ArticleA NYC Eco-Schools Teacher Helps Her Classroom Go Plastic-Free
Otter swimming with plastic water bottle . Photo by Paul Williams, Flickr Creative CommonsThe environment did not start out as a curriculum objective. It happened as a result of the principal’s...
View ArticleFirst School in Texas to Earn National Award for Sustainability Initiatives!
Clint Small Middle School’s Green Tech Academy. Photo by Marya FowlerCongratulations Small Green Tech Academy! Clint Small Middle School’s Green Tech Academy located in Austin, Texas is modeling the...
View ArticleKindergarteners Help Grow a Wild Brooklyn
Park Ranger Michelle Luebke showing the class a tray of primrose seedlings. Photo by Jason Wickersty, National Park ServiceOne morning in early March, Park Ranger Michelle Luebke from Gateway National...
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