Garden-based activities
- Garden observations and discussion topics (NTx School Garden Network)
- Gardens and communities (Nature Conservancy teacher guide – grades 6-8)
- Outdoor learning resources (Green Schoolyards America)
Starting a school garden
- Creating a school garden (The Garden Club of Houston)
- How to start a classroom garden with minimal resources (Project Learning Tree)
- How to increase biodiversity in school gardens (Project Learning Tree)
- Start a school greenhouse for native plants (Project Learning Tree)
- Restore the earth with native plants (Project Learning Tree)
- Nine Natives (Coastal Prairie Conservancy)
Starting a pocket prairie
- How to create a school pocket prairie (Native Prairies Association of Texas)
- Prairie gardening (Native Prairies Association of Texas)
- Coastal prairie activities and lessons (Native Prairies Association of Texas)
- How to sow wildflower seeds (Garden Club of Houston)
Plants
- Pokies and pricklies – how plants adapt to heat and drought (Family Nature Guides)
- Guide to edible plant parts (Project Learning Tree)
Flowers
- Blooming blossoms – flower fun (Family Nature Guides)
- Wildflower bingo (Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center)
Grasses
- Green grows the grass – natural services of grass (Family Nature Guides)
- Got Grass? Learning about native grasses (Native Prairies Association of Texas – grades 7-8)
Trees
- Tree houses – wildlife that lives in trees (Family Nature Guides)
- Urban trees (Nature Conservancy teacher guide – grades 6-8)
Seeds
- Seeds we need – seed dispersal and seed food (Family Nature Guides)
- Seed need (Project WILD)
Bees and Butterflies
- Monarch heroes curriculum for K-5 – TEKS-aligned (National Wildlife Federation)
- Habitat and pollinators (Nature Conservancy teacher guide – grades 6-8)
- Bee detective – declining populations (Nature Conservancy teacher guide – grades 6-8)
- Busy as a bee (Family Nature Guides)
- Flutterfly butterfly (Family Nature Guides)
- Monarch marathon (Project WILD)
- Busy bees, busy blooms (Project WILD)
Other Insects
- Grasshopper safari (Native Prairies Association of Texas – grades 4-5)
- Little ladies – ladybugs (Family Nature Guides)
- Arthropods – our creepy crawly friends (Family Nature Guides)
- Better together – mutualistic relationships between plants and insects (Project Learning Tree)
Wildlife
- Fill the bill activity (Flying WILD)
- Here today, gone tomorrow – wildlife extinction (Project WILD)
- Feathered friends monthly lessons (Cornell Labs)
- Project Feederwatch classroom guide (Cornell Labs)
Soil
- Soil – it’s a living thing! (Family Nature Guides)
- Worm tracks – nature’s gardeners (Family Nature Guides)
- Eco enrichers (Project WILD)
- How soil works (Nature Conservancy teacher guide – grades 3-8)
- The role of soil (Nature Conservancy teacher guide – grades 6-8)
Water
- How natural areas filter water (Nature Conservancy teacher guide – grades 6-8)
- Water, water everywhere (Family Nature Guides)
- Water audit (Project WET)
- What’s in the water (Aquatic WILD)
- Water cycle word search (Take Care of Texas.org, grades 1-2)
- Area watershed survey (Take Care of Texas.org, grades 4-6)
Climate / Weather
- Weird and wonderful weather (Family Nature Guides)
- Phenology at play (Project WILD)
Ecosystems
- Everything is connected – the benefits of native bird, insect and tree species (Project Learning Tree)
- Gardens as living systems (Nature Conservancy teacher guide – grades 6-8)
- Prairie ecosystem inventory (Native Prairies Association of Texas – grades 10-12)
- Measuring diversity in a prairie (Native Prairies Association of Texas – grades 10-12)
- Timelapse – ecosystem succession (Project WILD)
- What’s that habitat (Project WILD)
- Habitat circles (Project WILD)
Ecoregions
- Ecoregions – the many faces of Texas (Family Nature Guides)
Invasives
- Untangling invasives – exotic or aggressive? (Family Nature Guides)
- Invasive species nature activity (Project Learning Tree)