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Teachers, students, and parents will find environmental educational resources to help sustain and support learning from home while schools are shut and shifting towards online education. Many of the educational offerings also have general appeal and accessibility through books, interactive learning activities, and video streaming.
The list compiles environmental educational resources from near and nationally based non-profits and governmental organizations. There’s a little something for everyone in the offerings, from backyard insect safaris to academic lesson plans, to documentary environmental films.
Click each link below to access home-based environmental education resources.
20 daily actions for Earth Day 2020 from Stopwaste - calendar, 20 day journal, 15 day journal
Access teen resources for Earth Day from Oakland Public Library
Apply for a Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Grant for creative environmental projects by youth
Apply for a Captain Planet Foundation ecoSolution grants - for youth environmental educators
Audit and learn about your home water use and ways to save (available also in Spanish)
Build a bee hotel and help shelter pollinators
Calculate your carbon footprint, and see related student curricula from International Student Carbon Footprint Challenge
Calculate ways to reduce your carbon footprint from home, transportation and waste
Check out books for Earth Day recommended by Oakland Public Library
Coloring pages about energy conservation
Curricula compiled by the UC College Naturalist
Curriculum - Distance learning resources from California Department of Education
Curriculum - Family backyard environmental activities from Project Learning Tree
Curriculum from Community Resources for Science
Curriculum from the Edible Schoolyard
Curriculum from National Environmental Education Week
Curriculum: 3rd-8th grade leveled environmental classes with Mycelium Youth Network
Curriculum: bird activities for kids from Golden Gate Audubon Society
Curriculum: Climate Change lessons from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Curriculum: Ecorise
Curriculum: in and around the house activities from Project Learning Tree
Curriculum from California Environmental Literacy Foundation
Curriculum from San Mateo County Office of Education
Curriculum from the Santa Cruz Climate Action Network
Curriculum K-12 and some in Spanish from California Education and Environment Curriculum
Curriculum: K-12 virtual tours and at home learning from California State Parks
Curriculum of home nature based activities from Green Schoolyards America
Curriculum: preschool through high school from California Academy of Sciences
Curriculum: weekly environmental activities and lessons from the Children in Nature Network
Find out how your food choices affect the climate with this quiz from University of California's Carbon Neutrality Initiative
Homeschool with environmental resources from KIDS for the BAY
How sustainable is your lifestyle? Size up your footprint with this interactive quiz
Identify plants, bugs, and other backyard life with Seek iNaturalist
Learn about Oakland's Equitable Climate Action Plan (ECAP)
Learn about Oakland's Sustainability Program
Listen to stories of leading environmental ideas and leaders via Podship Earth.
Make a safe and healthy yard and garden with these tips
Nature journaling with the John Muir Laws guide
Pitch in to citizen and community science research from home
Read Bay Nature's coverage of local biodiversity
Read Drawdown's compendium of big picture climate change solutions
Read science, history, and conservation of East Bay creeks
Renewable Energy 1 page activity for kids
Test your climate change knowledge with this EarthDay.org quiz
Venture out to your backyard for an insect safari (Oakland insect guide ; Insect finder; Insect identification help; Insect appreciation music)
Virtual field trips to and about the Bay with Stepping Out Stepping In
Virtually visit California native plant gardens with the "Bringing Back the Natives" tour
Watch environmental movies from the Oakland Public Library
Watch short films about Oakland's trails and trees
Watch the Exploratorium's environmental science videos
Watch the Saving San Francisco Bay documentary
Watch this Alameda County video about sustainable purchasing
Watch Washington DC Environmental Film Festival movies