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Keep Your Children/Students Actively Engaged in
​Outdoor & Edible Education with These Great Resources

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We are continuously updating, please check back often!

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.
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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!

Enjoy this biodiversity lesson and hunt with Farmer Lauren!


Make a Tree Identification Book with Ms. Chelsea!
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Learn about Isopods with Ms. Elizabeth!
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Look for Signs of Spring with Farmer Emma!
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Build Your In-Ground Backyard Garden with Lauren
No inquiry questions for this one, but, if you have questions about building your garden, you can email us at admin@peascommunity.org.

Learn good hand washing habits with Ms. Maite!
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Make Oobleck with Chef Caralee
Click here to answer inquiry questions 
Listen to Chef Caralee Read Bartholomew and the Oobleck by Dr. Seuss
Tree-t Yourself with Ms. Kate (elementary level)
click here to answer inquiry questions 

Worthwhile Resources for Families & Schools

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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
  • Backyard Tree Identification Guide  from Home Advisor

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
Video:
  • 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​
Recipes for Eating:​
  • 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.)
Recipes for Playing:
  • 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
    • Bilingual Urban Forestry Coloring Book
    • Scientific Artist Activity Book
    • Habitat Investigation Activity Book
  • 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.
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