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For Educators

Whether you are looking for professional development, curricula, funding, environmental data, or outdoor experiences, we offer a variety of programs and materials to fit your needs.

Professional Development

Explore and Restore Maryland Streams
- Engage students in studying and monitoring streams and conducting stewardship projects to improve the health of our waterways (grades K-12)

Green Eggs and Sand Curriculum and Workshops
- A middle and high school science curriculum based on the horseshoe crab along with educator immersion workshops.

Project Learning Tree
- Learn ways to teach students about trees and conservation through an interdisciplinary, hands-on workshop; partial MSDE credit may be available (grades K-12)

Project WET
- Learn ways to teach students about water and conservation through an interdisciplinary, hands-on workshop; partial MSDE credit may be available (grades K-12)

Project WILD (including Aquatic WILD, Growing Up WILD, and Flying WILD)
- Learn ways to teach students about wildlife and conservation through an interdisciplinary, hands-on workshop; partial MSDE credit may be available (grades pre-K-12)

Outdoor Learning on Public Lands
- Professional development for enriching your outdoor learning activities and getting acquainted with what our public lands have to offer. Half-day, outdoor workshops

Teachers on the Estuary
- Learn about the Chesapeake Bay through interactive, hands-on lessons (grades 6-12)

View Upcoming Workshops

Curricula and Programs

Archery Hunter Survey
- a long running citizen science initiative that contributes greatly to the understanding of our State’s wildlife species

Aquatic Invasive Species Curriculum & Trunk
- Interdisciplinary lesson plans and resources designed to teach about Maryland’s aquatic invasive species (grades 2-12)

Arbor Day Activities
- Activities for elementary students to learn about Arbor Day (grades K-5)

Bay Backpack
- Resources to supplement and to provide meaningful watershed educational experiences (grades K-12)

Career Connections:
- Help students considering a career in conservation with our guide and other great resources!

Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (CBNERR)
- Offers hands-on outdoor science learning with focus on wetlands, forests, and Bay watershed (pre K-12; public)

Check Up: Environmental Design In Your School
- Learn how to identify and implement actions that are good for the environment and make economic sense with this web-based guide (grades 6-12)

Chronic Wasting Disease
- data on a fatal neurological disease affecting members of the deer family

Climate Change 1
- A collection of climate and energy educational resources and
Climate Change 2
- news, research, special reports, videos, all related to climate change

Environmental Education ToolKit (MSDE)
- resources to assist with meeting state environmental literacy standards for grades Pre-K to 12.

Envirothon
- Learn about Maryland’s natural resources and compete in local and state competitions (grades 9-12)

Estuary Education Resources
- Interactive, web-based curricula on the world of estuaries (grades 6-12)

Explore and Restore Maryland’s Streams
- Instructional resources for studying and monitoring streams are based on work done by Department of Natural Resources scientists (grades K-12)

Download Maryland's Herps Posters

Scales and Tales
- Invite animal ambassadors into the classroom to learn about local wildlife, adaptations, and more (grades K-12)

Schoolyard Wildlife Habitat
- Learn how to make your schoolyard wildlife friendly; includes lesson plans, funding ideas, and identification tools (grades K-12)

Sunfish and Students
- Raise sunfish in the classroom and release (grades 4-12)

Trout in the Classroom
- Raise trout from eggs to fingerlings and then release them into a state-approved cold water stream or lake (grades K-12)

Wildlife Education Trunks
- Bring the outside into your classroom with these free hands-on, interdisciplinary teaching tools, which contain artifacts and activities to learn about wildlife (grades K-12)

Funding

Chesapeake Bay Trust Environmental Education Grant Program
- Apply for grants to expand and enhance Bay environmental education programs for pre-K through grade 12 students in Maryland.

Environmental Education and Stewardship - Improve student and community ability to take action benefiting Chesapeake ecosystems through professional development and training, curriculum expansion, outdoor learning and stewardship.

NOAA Chesapeake Bay Watershed Education and Training (B-WET Chesapeake) grant program
- Apply for grants to support hands-on watershed education for students and teachers to foster stewardship of the Bay

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s Environmental Education Grants Program
- Apply for grants that support projects promoting environmental awareness and stewardship.