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

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Enjoy this biodiversity lesson and hunt with Farmer Lauren!

PEAS Staff Videos & Mini-Explorations:
Inquiry forms that are mentioned in some videos are now closed, but the lessons are still great!

Explore Nature in Your Neighborhood/Yard

​Activities:

• ​​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 with former PEAS chef, Caralee
  • ​Chef Caralee reading Bartholomew and the Oobleck
• 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 (
• 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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