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Apps for Environmental Education and Outdoor Activity
Are you looking for more ways to incorporate technology into your classroom?
- Project Learning Tree recommends some educational apps that include stand-alone games, interactive teaching tools, and reference guides and cover topics such as food webs, climate change, trees, conservation, and weather.
- The Moms with Apps website recommends thoughtful use of technology and recommends family-friendly apps that help develop skills and knowledge in STEM subjects.
Are you interested in apps that help you get outside for learning and better health?
Explore!
- Oh, Ranger! Park Finder: Find a nearby public land! Includes forests, refuges, parks, and more.
- National Parks by Chimani: Your travel guide, map, audio tour, and a whole lot more for parks around the country.
Get Fit!
- Every Body Walk! : Acts as a pedometer to track time and distance on your walks, calculates calories burned, and saves your progress.
- AllTrails Hiking and Biking: Follow guides or document your own walk, bike, or hike everywhere from forest trails to city neighborhoods.
Discover
- Creek Watch: Monitor your local watershed. Report observations to local water control boards to help keep our streams clean.
- iNaturalist: Upload photos of plants, animals, and their GPS locations to share with an online community of nature lovers
- Project Noah: Document local wildlife as a citizen/community scientist! Users can go on missions to help gather data for real research projects.
Be Prepared
- First Aid: Find instructions from the American Red Cross to guide you through common first aid scenarios.
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