Resources for Teachers & Families
Johnson Creek Watershed Council Resources:
- Educational YouTube videos – Watch our channel!
Partner Environmental Organization’s Education Resources:
- Virtual 360 Interactive visit to Johnson Creek– Salmon Watch
- FREE Ecology Field Guide textbook by Wolftrees watershed science education program 5th edition
- Amphibians of Gresham Video
- Children’s Clean Water Festival List of Resources
- Portland Water Bureau watershed model activity
- Oregon Zoo live videos and home activity resources
- SOLVE & PGE care for your backyard and tour of Oregon from home
- Regional Coalition for Clean Rivers Student video contest
- Clackamas River Water Providers teacher resources
- EPA Water sense for kids
- Oregon Wild Wednesdays video posts
- Project WILD parent resources
- Project Learning Tree Activities for Families
- Travel Oregon families guide to activities at home
- Survive the Sound, fish migration activities
- Tree data from Portland Parks and Recreation
- City of Gresham Youth Climate Eco-challenge
- West Multnomah Soil & Water Conservation District Soil School 2021 Opening Session and School & Community Garden Soil Health Education
- OSU free intro master gardener workshop
- EMSWCD free workshops
- Columbia Springs bug out scavenger hunts, tree activity, un-nature trail activity, and salmon habitat scavenger hunt
- Tualatin SWCD Nature ABS scavenger hunt, backyard scientist, and seed germination experiment
- Columbia Slough Watershed Education Activities
- ODFW wildlife in Oregon videos
- Cornell Lab of Ornithology live bird feeder cams
- Oregon Agriculture in the Classroom virtual farm field trips
- Forest Therapy walks
- National Parks
- Freshwater mussel video by Freshwaters Illustrated
- DIY mason bee condos
- Amazing photos and information on macroinvertebrates
- Salmon Watch Resources
- The school garden curriculum
- Chesapeake Bay Program – An educators guide to the meaningful watershed educational experience (MWEE)
- Purdue Extension Discovering the watershed lesson plan
- Science Net Links Great Rivers Activity
- UNL stormwater educational activities for kids
- Connecting classrooms and communities through watersheds lessons
- Freshwater lesson plans Grades k-12
- Nature Journaling with Project Learning Tree
- Oregon Natural Resources Education Program (ONREP) virtual field trips, online tours, and videos
- Geospatial webinars for kids
- What is a bird, song for kids, Pancake Manor
- Free activity book download- Great Gorge Adventure by EMSWCD, in English, Spanish, Russian, and Vietnamese
- O.Berk Water Cycle Glossary of Terms
Other Education Resources:
- Passion Impact Youth Information Interview practice
- E-Books
- Online courses with PUGS
Culturally Responsive Education Resources:
- Confederated tribes of Grande Ronde Tribal History Curriculum
- Confluence Story Collections- stories from Tribal partners
- White Supremacy in the classroom
- Creating a More Welcoming and Culturally Responsive School Community to Engage American Indian and Alaska Native Families series
- Working with kids in nature
- Erasing inequity by Grant HS
- Branch out PDX, tree canopy equity in Portland
- Culturally Responsive Instruction ASCD
- Culturally Response Teaching, Equity Assistance Center at Education NW