Teaching Tools
Teaching Tools have been developed to support educators at every level from K-12 through college. These tools are intended to facilitate infusing biodiversity and conservation thinking into learning across disciplines.
Each topical Teaching Tool has a landing page with information on key concepts and a number of resources including lesson elements in categories that match the Next Generation Science Teaching Standards in particular, but are useful across disciplines.
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Featured Teaching Tools
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Find the Tools You Need
Our Teaching Tools cover a wide range of lesson and learning types. Find the tools you need based on the groups below or view them all.
Phenomenal Images
A photo or an illustration that presents a natural phenomenon such as weather or animal behavior.
DataPlay
Select graphs, figures, or tables from scientific publications are presented.
Guided Inquiry
In-depth explorations of important biodiversity and conservation topics.
Design Challenge
Best conducted as team-based, multidimensional problems.
Readings
Samples of some the best nature writing including E.O. Wilson, Aldo Leopold, and Rachel Carson, but also numerous diverse voices that have risen to be heard more recently.
Videos
Meet scientists, conservation experts, educators, and authors in recorded videochats on select biodiversity and conservation topics.
