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PRINTABLE ACTIVITIES ORGANIZED BY CATEGORY, AVAILABLE IN A FLASH.
Outdoors Print-and-Go
Why Outdoors ❯ Research on the benefits of outdoor education. How nature can help us all feel better.
What is Place Based Education? ❯ Tried and true methods to connect with nature and community.
Outdoor Classroom Management ❯ Simple and practical ideas for creating successful outdoor experiences.
Taco Salad ❯A yummy way to get your veggies and learn what to put on your plate.
Fruit on a stick ❯The fruit we eat, and when we buy them make a difference to the environment. Food for thought.
Clouds ❯ Look at clouds from all sides. You can even make your own!
Outdoor Bingo ❯ Take THIS Bingo card outside, and fill it up!
Veggie Sauce & Microgreens ❯ Grow your own greens indoors, and make a yummy sauce for dinner.
Easy Garden Scavenger Hunt ❯ Keep your garden happy.
Easier Garden Scavenger Hunt ❯ Things to see and do in the garden.
Investigating Insects ❯ Go on a Bug Hunt, but be sure to return critters to their homes.
Science of Fruit ❯ Use all your senses to explore the fruit you grow and eat.
Vegetable Investigators ❯ Learn how veggies grow, and grow a plant of your own.
Walk and Search ❯ What’s in your neighborhood?
Can you find? ❯ A fun, visual guide to everything outdoors.
Sound Map ❯ Use sounds & stuff you find to map your park.
Unbelievably Fantabulous 10-Yard Hike ❯ So much life in a tiny space?
Soil Detectives ❯ Find out what’s in the soil in your own backyard.
Water All Around Us ❯ Three activities — food, game and scavenger hunt.
Mindfulness & Movement Print-and-Go
Balloon Breathing ❯ Use a balloon to visualize a calming breath.
Take Time for Me ❯ Make a jar of activities to use to destress.
Pandemic Journals ❯ Use these five exercises to jumpstart your pandemic journal.
Tense and let go ❯ Feeling stressed? Try this!
Art Print-and-Go
Rainbow ❯ Experiments, good things to eat and do. Stories and music!
Mandala ❯ Use this pattern to color, focus, and calm.
Chalk Mountains ❯ Create a design & experiment with color blending.
Recycled Art ❯ Use random found items to create an original design.
Social Justice Print-and-Go
Culture (GRAPES) Lesson 1 ❯ Learn how Geography, Religion, Achievement, Politics, Economics & Social Structure explain culture.
Cross Cultural Game Lesson 2 ❯ Use current events, a journal and a game to reflect on issues of justice. You’ll need the Bargna Game game too!
Fruit on a stick ❯ The fruit we eat, and when we buy them make a difference to the environment. Food for thought.
Last Stop on Market Street ❯ Activities & discussion guides based on the award-winning picture book.
Taco Salad ❯ A yummy way to get your veggies and learn what to put on your plate.
Service Project Planning ❯ Plan, do, reflect–create something good.
Persuasive Letter Lesson ❯ Use the Oreo model to rite for change in your community.
Pandemic Journals ❯ Use these five exercises to jumpstart your pandemic journal.
Next Step activities and lessons rely on our special brand of quirkiness and creativity to make learning fun.
ENJOY THESE SPECIAL RECIPES FOR YOUR NEXT ADVENTURE.
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We came together in search of a common goal–feeding our children fresh, healthy food. And we believe that goal can best be accomplished by promoting farm-school partnerships.
Settle, connect, move and focus with Next Step Mindfulness & Movement Activity Cards.
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