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Time to Get Outside

June is Camping and Great Outdoors Month and includes World Environment Day, World Ocean Day, National Get Outdoors Day, and the Great American Campout Day. Celebrate the great outdoors by learning all about weather, Lyme disease, marine science, and more with these teacher reviewed resources.

Grades 3-12

SciJinks: It's All About Weather

Explore the informational articles and activities about weather, satellite meteorology, and earth science. Don't miss the hurricane interactive! Find content aligned to NGSS. Read our "In the Classroom" section for implementation ideas!

Grades 3-8

Educators Guides to Lyme Disease

Help your students become informed and prevent Lyme disease. The site includes a teacher overview (correlated to Next Generation Science Standards), student activities, a PowerPoint presentation, and links to more information.

Grades K-9

CurriConnects Booklist: Weather, Climate, and Earth's Atmosphere

Peruse this curated list to find books that correlate with your science lessons. TeachersFirst's CurriConnects thematic book lists include Lexile reading levels, ISBN numbers for ordering or searching, interest grade levels, and ESL levels.

Grades 5-12

Beach Chair Scientist

This blog features posts about marine science, the environment, and getting outside! Learn about the weather, Sea Turtle Day, and so much more. See our review for ideas about how to incorporate the information and activities into your lessons.

Let's Grow a Garden

Get outside this summer and grow a garden. Discover 3 gardening inspired resources to help students grow and learn.

Grades K-6

Inch by Inch, Row by Row: Read-Alouds for Gardens

Gardens provide a wealth of opportunities to integrate curriculum and solve real-world problems. Our collection of resources, tips, and read-alouds includes lessons with project ideas about what plants need to thrive, ecosystems, food chains, and more.

Grades K-12

Project Budburst

Bring science to life for your class by joining this community of citizen scientist. The site's Education Tab is full of helpful guides for using the site (standards included), supplemental activities, and videos. We provide classroom tips in our review.

Grades K-12

Get Your Hands Dirty Guide

Learn about growing plants and keeping animals at school. See our suggestions for how to use the guide with your students and then click to view or download the guide (revised and updated in 2017).

Let's Go Camping

Whether you are staying in a tent or cabin, these resources are full of great ideas about how to enjoy and engage students in the great outdoors! 

Grades K-12

Ultimate Camp Resources

If you plan to attend camp, be a counselor at camp, or plan camp events, check out this site! Here you will find camp songs, games, counselor information, art projects, campfire stories, skits, and ice breakers.

Grades K-7

Ranger Rick Kids

Find classroom ideas for using this this award-winning site from the National Wildlife Federation. Designed for young students and the educators (and parents) that teach them, it includes crafts, songs, printable pages, outdoor activity ideas, and more!

Grades 1-12

Roadtrippers

Let's go on a road trip and practice math, planning, and more along the way! This site helps students find camp sites, parks and hotels and plan the mileage, money, and more! Click to see our review for integration ideas in your classroom.

What's Happening at TeachersFirst This Week

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