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Website with simple graphics on how to tie a variety of knots. Nature-Watch provides educational nature products and craft activity kits designed to teach children about nature. Our hands on educational materials and crafts engage, enlighten and enliven the learning experience for children while being a great resource of nature instructional materials for indoor and outdoor educators. A Guide to the Voices of Crickets, Katydids & Cicadas Download topographical maps for free from the USGS.
Contains a tracker to log how many hours you spend outdoors. Can buy patches once 1000 hours is logged.
20 Fall inspired science activities & experiments for preschoolers, kindergarten & elementary age kids!
A list of 20+ badge activities that can be done with your troop.
Everything you ever wanted to know about campfires - how tos, tips & tricks, how to cook, campfire magic tricks, programs, etc.
From the Girl Scouts of Central Maryland council. This is a great PDF file on how to plan a campfire program. Includes ideas for Songs & Skits along with the types of firebuilding and much more.
A collection of posters and downloadable materials about all kinds of subjects about nature. Recently went to subscriber basis - $25/yr.
Our friends at Pennington Wild Birds are working with us to educate and engage children and families in citizen science and the pleasures of wild bird feeding and bird watching! A free download perfect for elementary educators is available: these easy-to-use activities will help you teach science content year-round through the birds that visit.
The Great Backyard Bird Count is a great way for people of all ages and backgrounds to connect with nature and make a difference for birds. It's free and easy.
A PDF file on how to progress your girls to help them gain confidence in outdoor skills.
Thanks to a grant from the Elliott Wildlife Values Project, GSUSA created six new outdoor skill-building videos especially for volunteers newer to Girl Scouts and older Girl Scouts as they take younger girls outside. These videos can help volunteers give girls a sense of empowerment in the outdoors, show them how to use natural resources more wisely (including respecting our environment and wildlife), and help them become lifelong stewards of the land and our natural resources.
Kids in Parks is an expanding network of family-friendly outdoor adventures called TRACK Trails (sites located in NC). Each TRACK Trail features self-guided brochures and signs that turn your visit into a fun and exciting outdoors experience. Best of all, you can earn PRIZES for tracking your adventures!
For more information about the seven principles, PEAK, becoming a Leave No Trace member or sponsor, or to obtain teaching resources, booklets, posters, and plastic reference cards listing the Leave No Trace principles, contact the Center for Outdoor Ethics, P.O. Box 997, Boulder CO 80306; phone (800) 332-4100.
This pack of Leave No Trace materials features several good games for review/problem solving, especially when earning the Junior Eco Camper badge.
To offset the loss of milkweeds and nectar sources we need to create, conserve, and protect milkweed/monarch habitats. We need you to help us and help monarchs by creating "Monarch Waystations" in gardens, at schools, businesses, parks, and on other unused plots of land.
The North Carolina Birding Trail links 300+ bird watching sites and birders with communities, businesses and educational attractions.
REI offers a lot of (free!) outdoor training classes at their locations plus online information. This link is for the Greenville store.
Handouts, coloring sheets, videos, certificates and various resources for leaders for grades K through 8.
Great resource with sections on outdoor games, animal tracks & sounds, leaf rubbings, & videos. Be sure to download the "Book Of Stuff To Do!" PDF file.
A guide to identifying trees in South Carolina by the South Carolina Forestry Commission.