Educator Tools

Do Vital Signs with your students!

How-To Guides
Fieldwork Toolkits
Field Missions
Curriculum resources

Join the thousands of educators and students doing Vital Signs in classrooms, afterschool programs, learning centers, summer camps, and recreation programs.

Professional Development

Institutes and events
Educator Forum!

Institutes are a professional and fun venue for educators to grow their skills and knowledge, change or refine their practice, and connect with colleagues statewide. Educators learn by doing, experiencing, contributing, and playing in ways that translate directly into practice.

Curriculum & Standards

Lesson plans, games, units of study
MLR & Next Gen Science Standards
Species in the news

Activities and units developed by us and educators statewide encourage students to collaborate, communicate, think critically and creatively, and build scientific habits of mind. Use, modify, share, and redistribute these resources in accord with the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license!

Authentic Science Learning Environment

Learning environment
Inquiry learning

Students learn science by being scientists as they participate directly in a real environmental research effort alongside scientists, professionals, citizens, and a statewide network of their peers.