Whether you are looking for professional development, funding, educational resources, environmental data, or field experiences, we offer a variety of programs and materials to fit your needs.
Professional Development
-
Aquatic Invasive Species - learn about local aquatic invasive species and interactive lessons to teach about these species
-
Envirothon - learn about Maryland’s natural resources and compete in local and state competitions (grades 9-12)
-
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)
-
Teachers on the Estuary - learn about the Chesapeake Bay through interactive, hands-on lessons (grades 6-12)
-
Growing Up WILD - learn how to connect young children to nature using developmentally appropriate practices aligned with state and national standards; elective curriculum credit for daycare providers may be available (grades preK-2nd)
-
Flying WILD - hands-on bird education curriculum supplement (grades 4-8)
- Project Learning Tree - (grades K-8)
-
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 - learn ways to teach students about wildlife and conservation through an interdisciplinary, hands-on workshop; partial MSDE credit may be available (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.
-
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.
Funding
Educational Resources
-
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 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 Day -
Check Up - 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)
-
Climate Change 1 - a collection of climate and energy educational resources
-
Climate Change 2 - news, research, special reports, videos, all related to climate change
-
Envirothon - learn about Maryland’s natural resources and compete in local and state competitions (grades 9-12)
-
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)
-
Estuaries 101 - interactive, web-based curricula on the world of estuaries (grades 6-12)
-
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)
-
Storm Drain Stenciling - participate in a service learning activity that raises awareness about storm drains (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)
-
WILD at Schools - free, one hour (K-5) school programs focused on local wildlife and tailored to Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
-
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)
-
Maryland State Department of Education Environmental Education ToolKit - resources to assist with meeting state environmental literacy standards: the
Environmental Literacy Standards, Curricular Infusion By Grade-bands, and a number of additional resources and guidance materials for grades Pre-K to 12.
Environmental Data
Chesapeake Bay and Coastal Resources
Geology
Streams
Mapping
-
Maryland FieldScope - a project supporting the Explore and Restore Maryland Streams program. Enter watershed data and virtually explore your watershed.
-
MERLIN - (Maryland Environmental Resource and Land Information Network) - online mapping repository for Geographic Information System (GIS) spatial data for the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. Identify the closest natural resources that surround your school and community.
-
Maryland Stream Health - an interactive map showing stream health around the state
-
Coastal Atlas - an online mapping and planning tool that allows state and local decision-makers to explore and analyze data for coastal and ocean planning activities
-
Groundwater Level Mapper Tool - an interactive map that provides water levels measured in wells in the Maryland Observation Well Network
-
Coastal Plain Geologic and Geophysical Log map - an interactive map that provides access to logs of sediments/rocks encountered during drilling and borehole geophysical data.
Wildlife
Field Experiences