Posts by Kendyll Romine

A Scavenger Hunt is a great way to engage students outdoors. Divide the class into teams of three and send them on a mission! If the class is too large…

Trees provide shelter and food for animals, emit oxygen, sequester carbon dioxide that otherwise might be trapping heat in the atmosphere, provide shade, and stabilize soil with their roots. It’s…

Tired of hearing what a negative impact humans have on the planet? Frustrated by feeling like BigFoot when you calculate your ecological or carbon footprint?  Handprinter.org lets you flip that…

Maybe the nature in your schoolyard seems somewhat limited, and the nearest park is a long way away. Even when it seems there are more buildings around than trees, your…

Seeds rolled up in clay and compost balls make a great portable garden-starter that can be used on campus or in wasteland areas where wildflowers would be welcome. Kids can…

Honeybees, who live in hives, are great pollinators but not native to the U.S. Our wild, native mason bees live alone and look for places to nest in small open…

Recycling is important, but the US does not have the capacity to process all the recyclables we produce. What would it take to change habits, reject single-use packaging and products,…

Ever heard of energy vampires? They are appliances and electronics that use a lot of electricity even when in “sleep” or “standby” mode. Kids can use a watt meter such…

Students can find out what organisms are living in their schoolyard (or backyard) with a cool new phone app called SEEK by I-Naturalist. It geolocates a user without any need…