Keep Your Children/Students Actively Engaged in
Outdoor & Edible Education with These Great Resources
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Our experienced outdoor and culinary specialists love to inspire and promote a love of nature, food, and the environment. With your support we can continue to cultivate young minds and partner with local schools. If you are able, please consider a small donation today.
Looking for things to do? Check out PEAS' Activity Calendars:
PEAS Staff Videos & Mini-Explorations:
Austin-area students, answer each video's inquiry questions and be entered in to our drawing for summer fun prizes!
So cool! Soil Samples!
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Cool off with these yummy and easy to make fruity-freeze-pops!
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Create bird feeders with Ms. Chelsea!
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Check out this awesome Living vs. Non-living lesson with Farmer Emma!
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Make nature mandalas with Ms. Chelsea for Mother's Day!
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Harvest loquats and make jam with Ms. Chelsea!
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Create a color wheel in nature with Ms. Elizabeth!
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Enjoy this biodiversity lesson and hunt with Farmer Lauren!
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Relax and regroup in a Sit Spot with Ms. Kate!
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Reuse and grow green with Ms. Chelsea!
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Go on a Tree Scavenger Hunt with Ms. Elizabeth!
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Make Naan Bread with Chef Caralee!
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Build Your In-Ground Backyard Garden with Lauren
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Listen to Chef Caralee Read Bartholomew and the Oobleck by Dr. Seuss
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Explore Nature in Your Neighborhood/Yard
Activities:
- 10 Nature Activities to Help Get Your Family Through the Coronavirus Pandemic from The Children & Nature Network
- Activities to Do with Kids at Home from Project Learning Tree
- Finding Urban Nature from National Geographic
Gardening with Kids
Activities:
- Easy Parent & Kid Gardening Activities from KidsGardening.org
- Gardening with Children from Learn.Eartheasy.com
- Go-to Guide for Gardening with Children from Gardner's Path
- PEAS' Video - How To Build an In-Ground Backyard Garden with Lauren
Cooking with Kids
Instructional Cooking Videos:
- DIY Snacks for Kids from Rachel Talbott
- Healthy and Easy Snack Ideas from Liezl Jayne Strydom
- Making Ice Pops from National Geographic Kids
- 15 Kid Friendly Recipes from Motherly
- 20 Fun-filled Activities with Food from Forkly.com
- *Staff recommendation, "These are insane! i.e. rainbow grilled cheese, caterpillar fruit kabobs, grape sculptures - great for STEAM learning." (Fun, but not extremely healthy.)
- How to make Oobleck from The Best Ideas for Kids
- 3 Ways to Make Playdough from Really Good Stuff Blog
- 5 Ways to Make Safe Slime from The Empowered Educator
Additional resources from our partners:
- City of Austin - Urban Forestry Program
- At Home Learning from Eco-Rise
- Texas Outdoor Family CampIN Video from Texas Parks and Wildlife
- Follow TOF’s Facebook page for updates and live videos.
- The National Wildlife Federation encourages you to safely go outside to learn! The following resources are currently available for indoor and outdoor learning:
- Three months of free access to Ranger Rick digital magazines and activities
- Eco-Schools USA sustainability activities that can be done from school or home
- Weekly Monarch Heroes activities which students can do from a backyard/porch or on a neighborhood walk (coming soon)Applications are also currently being accepted for your school to join the Monarch Heroes program in the 2020-2021 school year. The application of interest can be found here: https://bit.ly/MH1-2020Aus
- Earth Day 50 Climate Change PD. In partnership with Project Wet and Project Wild, NWF has created a free, self-paced virtual climate education course for educators. Upon completion of the course educators will receive free lessons from Project Wet, Project Wild and NWF resources that can be used to (virtually) celebrate Earth Day 50. Teachers may register here.
- Common Threads: Cooking Videos, Small Bites Recipes , Gardening How Tos
- Keep Austin Beautiful is offering free, TEKS aligned virtual programming this summer called Generation Zero Waste, a youth education program in partnership with Austin Resource Recovery. The program engages K-12 students in fun, interactive activities which raise awareness about recycling, composting, and conservation while giving students simple solutions for reducing their waste.