Nature is Full of Learning Opportunities!

Spark children’s curiosity and build school-readiness skills in everyday moments outdoors.

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Click through “outdoor science” ideas you can use anytime with children to explore nature while building thinking skills, friendships, and healthy bodies. Learn from our neighborhoods how to be smarter, stronger, and kinder—outside and all around us.
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Outdoor Play in Every Way

Engaging with nature is an opportunity for wonder, hands-on discovery, and creativity — all building blocks for healthy development and future learning.

Watch Outdoor Play in Every Way

Caring for Nature

Children can find awe, delight, joy, and pride by noticing and taking care of the nature around them.

Watch Caring for Nature

Nature is Everywhere

Nature is all around us — even on a city block — and it’s for everyone to notice, discover, observe, wonder about, and enjoy.

Watch Nature is Everywhere

Senses After a Rainstorm

Children can use all their senses when engaging with nature. Use this printable while watching the Outdoor Play in Every Way video linked above.

Download or Print Senses After a Rainstorm

Caring for Nature: Let's Color Together

Children can find awe, delight, joy, and pride by noticing and taking care of the nature around them. Use this printable while watching the Caring for Nature video linked above.

Download or Print Caring for Nature: Let's Color Together

Nature is Everywhere: Color & Sing Along

Look up, look down… look all around! Use this printable while watching the Nature is Everywhere video linked above.

Download or Print Nature is Everywhere: Color & Sing Along

Outdoor Play: A Marvelous Mess

It’s okay to get messy sometimes! Discover joyful, hands-on ways of connecting and learning with nature.

Read Outdoor Play: A Marvelous Mess

The Beauty of Quiet Time Outdoors

Children can begin to recognize nature as a place they can find calm... and be calmed.

Read The Beauty of Quiet Time Outdoors