Resource Library

The National Register of Historic Places provides a great avenue for social studies teachers to get their students outside. The advanced search locates places using numerous fields, including geographic location, area of significance and period of significance.

Promise of Place is a project of the Center of Place-based Learning and Community Engagement. Promise of Place supports place-based education by facilitating collaborative efforts in research, program design, technical assistance, resource development and dissemination.

This guide provides a brief introduction to the 1990 Clean Air Act. The 1990 Clean Air Act is the most recent version of a law passed in 1970 to clean up air pollution. This simplified guide is the perfect way to introduce this law to students.

GardenWorks lets high school students with disabilities contribute to the school community in meaningful ways. Students design and build terraria, begin a window side habitat and observatory and donate plants to school areas and fundraisers.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Proteccion de la Fauna Mexicana A.C., a Mexican non-governmental organization, developed The Monarch Butterfly Manual, Royal Mail: A Manual for the Environmental Educator. This manual offers activities and labs, arranged by grade level, that promote conservation of the Monarch Butterfly.

Through the application of math concepts students examine the degree of biodiversity that exists in the everyday environment in order to develop an understanding of how scientists classify organisms. They also explore why biodiversity is important for living things.

This directory contains over 2,000 nature and environmental education centers nationwide. Centers are searchable by location and include contact information.

Photo: Jason Morrison

NatureFind helps people locate opportunities to experience nature. NatureFind features over 200,000 events annually at more than 8,000 individually selected places. Events and places are searchable by location.

This resource offers numerous materials for teaching environmental topics to students learning English. Activities cover a variety of topics including recycling, climate change and air pollution. Materials range from beginner to advanced.

Follow Earth Gauge outreach coordinator Ann Posegate as she embarks on a media expedition to Antarctica.