Join us to explore the new Nature Challenge, a nature-engagement platform designed for the 21st century that brings conservation, scientific discovery, and environmental stewardship back into everyday life. Learn how to become a provider and generate opportunities for people of all ages and abilities to learn, have fun, and make a positive impact in communities. As a provider, you'll leverage your existing materials and expertise to engage...

Webinar with Ted Stevens, Education Director, Texas Forestry Association

Learn how to use Project Learning Tree's new Green Jobs guide that is TEKS-aligned and STEM correlated to inspire your students to pursue a future career working outdoors in a natural resource forestry related career. The guide contains four fun hands-on activities to explore this topic with your middle school and high school students.

Participants will learn...

Webinar with Dr. Courtney Crim and Dr. Laura Allen - Trinity University, Department of Education

It is well known that unplugging from daily demands is beneficial for our well-being. Time spent in nature offers this much-needed relief. However, when we shared this insight with college students already feeling overwhelmed, their response was often, "We don't have time." To address this challenge, we brainstormed ways to help students...

Health webinar with Jay Maddock, Ph.D., FAAHB, Director of the Center for Health & Nature & Regents Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at Texas A&M

Founded in 2018, the Center for Health & Nature is a unique collaboration between Houston Methodist, Texan by Nature, and the Texas A&M Health Science Center, to drive research to study the impact of nature on health with evidence-based...

Teacher Workshop and Health Webinar with Erin Largo-Wight, University of North Florida Professor, Department of Public Health PhD and Director, Institute of Environmental Research & Education (IERE)

The relationship between passive nature contact and health is both intuitive and supported by a growing body of research evidence. The nature and health relationship has broad implications ranging from public health policy to urban...

Webinar with Marisa Oliva-Rodriguez, Health and Nature Liaison, Texas Children in Nature Network

In 2023, the Rio Grande Valley launched its first Nature Smart Library Lending Backpack program, in coordination with local libraries, Texas Parks and Wildlife, Driscoll Health Plan, and Texas Children in Nature Network. Since then, 60 backpacks have been deployed across eight libraries in Hidalgo and Cameron County, giving families access...