Teacher Resources
Acorn Naturalists: Resources for the Trail & Classroom
Super comprehensive website. Highly regarded books, teaching tools and background literature for teachers.
CAlifornia Academy of Sciences: Naturalist Center Library
Free for educators, just requiring Teacher ID. Can borrow a number of books and up to three DVDs at a time. Free entrance to the academy for use of the center. For more information, contact naturalist@calacademy.org, or call 415-379-5494.
BIG IDEAS: LINKING FOOD, CULTURE, HEALTH, AND THE ENVIRONMENT (CURRICULUM GUIDE, CENTER FOR ECOLITERACY)
Provides educators with a conceptual framework for integrated learning that enhances student understanding of personal well being and the natural world.
CONSERVATION CONNECTION CALENDAR (K–5th)
The Conservation Connection Calendar includes free environmental events, fun facts, vocabulary words and activity worksheets for K-5 students.
CRISSY FIELD'S FINDING URBAN NATURE IN YOUR SCHOOL REGION (K–12)
Crissy Field's Finding Urban Nature (FUN) Guide, for helping educators use and understand the parks and greenspaces close to their school grounds, natural nistory info for each of the parks found in San Francisco. A PDF download.
FOOD, INC. DISCUSSION GUIDE (CENTER FOR ECOLITERACY) (K-12)
This guide is designed to help high school students make more thoughtful choices about food and participate in a meaningful dialogue about food and food systems.
MISSION SCIENCE WORKSHOP (K-12)
Seeks to combine traditional activities in experimental science—use of microscopes, balances, thermometers, culturing plants and animals—with building a variety of projects with clay, wood, and plastic, including pendulums, electric and mechanical toys, musical instruments, and apparatuses that enhance our explorations of sound, light, and color.
NOURISH: Food + Community (6-12)
What we eat, where we eat, and how we eat reveals much about our relationship to food. Today, more than ever, we need to understand where our food comes from and how it reaches us. The purpose of Nourish is to open a meaningful conversation about food and sustainability, particularly in schools and communities
SF ENVIRONMENT: ENVIRONMENTAL BOOK AND VIDEO LENDING LIBRARY (K-12th)
Supplement your environmental programs with books and videos on a variety of interesting topics including consumer consumption, energy, environmental justice, water issues, gardening, and food production.
SF GREEN SCHOOLYARD ALLIANCE (K-12)
The SFGSA serves children and families of San Francisco by promoting and supporting green schoolyards.
SF ZOO TEACHER RESOURCES (K-12th)
The Zoo’s e-newsletter “The Living Classroom” contains helpful information, links and activities teachers can use on Zoo grounds as well as in the classroom.
SMART BY NATURE: SCHOOLING FOR SUSTAINABILITY (K-12)
Portrays the hopeful new sustainability movement that is spreading across a growing number of public, independent, and charter schools nationwide.
Taking FoSS Outdoors!! (K-5)
Grade K-6 FOSS Modules that are able to be performed in the schoolyard, garden or any out-of-the classroom space!
TALK OF THE NATION: SCIENCE FRIDAY (K-12)
Talk of the Nation: Science Friday® is a science talk show that can be heard each Friday afternoon, 2-4 p.m
WILD CARE: NATURE KITS (k-12)
Variety of specimens, taxidermy, and artifacts for amazing visual aids to bring your classroom to a deeper level of understanding about your content.