Educator Blog

October is Fire Prevention Month! While many of the month’s activities are focused on what you can do to prevent fires at home (check your smoke detectors and change your batteries!), Fire Pre...

Reader Strategies Blog Series In this series, we will be walking through some strategies for using the Natural Inquirer Readers with children from kindergarten through 2nd grade. Eac...

Sharing a love of reading — and free Natural Inquirer goodies — through the Little Free Library network Take a book, share a book. This is the motto of Little Free Library, ...

People across the nation will join “Together for Tomorrow” on September 28 for National Public Lands Day. Maybe a special birthday (looking at you, Woodsy Owl) will be inspiring them to “Le...

We have two Readers newly available on our website for order or download (FREE!). One of them, Meet Smokey Bear’s Team, is brand new and was released in time to commemorate Smokey Bear’s 80th bir...

The summer has flown by and already it’s time to gear ourselves up for another year of learning adventures! The beginning of the school year is always an exciting time of new possibilities, fresh f...

Who doesn’t enjoy a leisurely stroll on a sunny day? Mooshu the ball python enjoys his walks from the vantage point of Forest Service ecologist Victor Fitzgerald’s shoulders. “We walk him aroun...

Looking for ways to bring education outdoors? Whether you are an environmental educator on a park or forest, a classroom teacher for Pre-K to 12th grade students, or a parent looking for outdoor enri...

I’m at my local library in Nebraska today, helping out with an event for the Forest Service. Toddlers play on an alphabet rug as I tell them what Forest Service scientists do. “They ask ques...

Visitors at Wisconsin’s Daniel R. Obey Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center can hear the shanties of long-ago fur trappers, see the vibrant greens of the surrounding Chequamegon-Nicolet National For...