With kids out of school, we thought we would share a growing list of science, climate and environmental resources for kids from Sierra Club’s Climate Parents, with a few additions of our own.

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Activities

• Activities / Environment America: Fifty Environmental Activities Kids Can Do From Home

• Activities / Dr. Mirjam S. Glessmer: 24 Days of Kitchen Oceanography

 

Coloring Books 

• Coloring Books / Rachel Ignotofsky: The Wonderful Workings of Planet Earth

 

Digital Tours 

• Digital Tour / Google Arts & Culture: 360 Views and Tours of National Parks

• Digital Tour / Brooklyn Museum: Climate in Crisis: Environmental Change in the Indigenous America

• Digital Tour / Multiple Sources: Virtual Field Trips including of Mars and Yellowstone National Park

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Games

• Games / Smithsonian Science Education Center: Science Games

 

Interactive Opportunities 

• Interactive Opportunity / Skype a Scientist 

 

Live Cams

• Live Cam / Channel Islands Kelp Forest

• Live Cam / Decorah Bald Eagles

• Live Cam / Gorilla Forest Corridor

• Live Cam / Sharks in the Atlantic

 

Podcasts 

• Podcasts / Tumble / Gen-Z: Tumble Science Podcast for Kids

• Podcasts / Stitcher & Bill Nye: Science Rules! with Bill Nye 

• Podcasts / National Geographic: Overheard at National Geographic

• Podcasts / Alie Ward: Ologies with Alie Ward

• Podcasts / Nature.org: BirdNote 

• Podcasts / NPR: Wow in the World 

• Podcasts / WNYC: Radiolab (highly recommend digging into their archives) 

 

Reading

• Reading / Science News for Students: Science News For Students (I recommend you start here)

 

Social Media Accounts

• Instagram: We recommend following your favorite national parks, zoos, botanical gardens, and science and natural history museums. Other favorites include:

  • World Wildlife International: @wwf

  • The Explorers Club: @the_explorers_club

  • Tanja Brandt-Tierfotografie: @tanja_brandt (nature photographer, and also owner of a dog and owl who are best friends) 

  • Cornell Bird Cams: @cornellbirdcams

  • NASA Solar System Exploration: @nasasolarsystem

  • NatGeo Wild: @natgeowild

  • BBC Earth: @bbcearth

  • Kelzuki / Kelsey Oseid: @kelzuki (wonderful nature illustrator)

• And don’t forget the Sierra Club

  • National Sierra Club: @sierraclub

  • Our Connecticut Chapter: @ctsierra 

 

Video & Film

• Videos / Storytime from Space: Astronaut Story Time 

• Films / Environmental Film Festival Online has made several of its festival videos available for free online