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School Daze and Frog Craze
Mary Quattlebaum shares a favorite book about a scientist whose career resulted from a childhood love of frogs. Read more >
Greening Our Schools: The Challenge For NWF Eco-Schools USA
America's increasing focus on things that are "green" most certainly extends to our K-12 schools — all 130,000 of them. The new NWF Eco-Schools USA program will help many U.S. schools to become more effective at educating and preparing students for new,… Read more >
Outdoor Kids: Bike To School
With all of the fun fall weekend activities, sometimes we forget about the many ways during the week to get our kids outside. There are rituals that we can start with our kids, if you haven’t already, that squeeze in… Read more >
An Inconvenient Truth In The Classroom: Free High School Curriculum
Many Americans have seen the Oscar-winning film documentary, An inconvenient Truth. It is based on a powerful visual and factual presentation on the realities of global warming that was developed through many years of hard work by former U.S. Vice President, Al Gore. The National… Read more >
Little Green Thumbs: Gardening with MLK Jr. Elementary
Would you rather stay in the office on a Friday or join a fun bunch of elementary school students in planting flowers? The choice was easy for me! As part of last Friday’s National Day of Service, I–together with a… Read more >
Time Out Fuels Classroom Performance
For kids these days, back to school sometimes means back indoors. In fact, the opposite should be the case—NWF has compiled vast research connecting the dots between classroom performance and time outdoors. The new parent and teacher guide, called TIME… Read more >
Week Six: A Tree of My Very Own
Check out Jennifer Ward’s tree-based activities–and learn how to “just be.” Read more >
Science Fair Project Ideas: Wildlife Watch
In springtime, countless parents, teachers and home school instructors look for fun, educational science projects to perform with their kids. Whether it is a one-time only exercise or a large-scale seasonal project, why not use National Wildlife Federation’s Wildlife Watch… Read more >
Serving Others by Digging Dirt
This Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, some of my colleagues and I took up the call to a day of national service. Joined by some big names and little students, together we helped clean up Washington, D.C.’s partially frozen Anacostia River. It… Read more >
U.S. House Votes to Leave No Child Left Inside!
Remember the good old days of field trips and watching your classroom’s tadpoles “magically” develop into frogs? Well, some Congressmembers must too, because on September 18th, the U.S. House voted to pass the No Child Left Inside Act! Passing with… Read more >
