Lesson plans
Nebraska Game and Parks offers a variety of lesson plans on flora, fauna and other natural resources topics specific to the state. The plans, PowerPoints and video resources are available for you to download and use.
PowerPoint: Animal and Habitats
Lesson Plan: Little & Big Matching Game | Little & Big Matching Cards
Lesson Plan: Wants vs. Needs
Lesson Plan: My Favorite Animal
Lesson Plan: Habitat Scavenger Hunt
PowerPoint: Birding 101: How to go birding and enjoy it!
PowerPoint: 10 Things You Should Do to Help Birds
Lesson Plan: Birds in the Food Web
Lesson Plan: Category, Chart and Graphs
Lesson Plan: Mapping Birds
Lesson Plan: Poetic Birds
Lesson Plan: Speaking for the Birds
Lesson Plan: Storytime
Lesson Plan: Venn Diagram
Lesson Plan: Homemade Binoculars
Lesson Plan: Birding Life List
Lesson Plan: Pinecone Bird Feeder
PowerPoint: Life Cycles
Lesson Plan: Which Came First | Which Came First Images
Lesson Plan: Plant Life Cycle Buffet
Lesson Plan: Peregrines in Peril
Lesson Plan: Dear Diary
Lesson Plan: Build A Bird
Lesson Plan: Plant Press
Lesson Plan: Leafy Creations
Lesson Plan: Leaf Rubbings
PowerPoint: Power of Pollinators
Lesson Plan: Pollinators, Meet Your Plants
Lesson Plan: Pollinator Super Heroes!
Lesson Plan: Monarch Life Cycle Sort
Activity: Monarch Butterfly Coloring Page
PowerPoint: Prairies 101 – Nebraska’s 4 Prairie Ecosystems
PowerPoint: Prairies and Prairie Food Webs
Lesson Plan: Measuring Prairie Plants
Lesson Plan: Mapping the Prairie Food Web | Prairie Food Web Images (two files)
Lesson Plan: Prairie Field Guides
Lesson Plan: Rainfall on the Plain
Lesson Plan: Prairie Nature Journals
Scavenger Hunts are a great way to get your students outside and engaged in nature. They also help work on observation skills and often lead to exploration, questioning, and adventure – all good things!
Early childhood
Early elementary
Upper elementary
Middle school
Sounds scavenger hunt
Video: Building a Classroom Compost Bin (2:44 minutes)
Video: Changing the Soil in your Worm Bin (1:21 minutes)
Video: What do Worms Like to Eat? (2:05 minutes)
Video: Worm Experiment: Light or Dark? (1:29 minutes)
Video: Worm Measurement (1:38 minutes)
PowerPoint: Soils
Lesson Plan: Measuring Worms
Lesson Plan: Mud Painting
Lesson Plan: Soil ID Book
Lesson Plan: Soil Recipe
Lesson Plan: We All Need Soil
Lesson Plan: Soil Painting
Lesson Plan: Nature’s Network
Lesson Plan: Rare Species Class Book
Lesson Plan: T&E Masks
Lesson Plan: Bottleneck Genes
Lesson Plan: Picketing for Plovers
Lesson Plan: Whoopers on the Rise
Lesson Plan: Trial for Terns
PowerPoint: Wetlands of Nebraska
Power Point: Water & Wetlands
Lesson Plan: Marsh Market | Marsh Market Food Web Images
Lesson Plan: Pollution Prevention Door Hangers
Lesson Plan: Weather Begins With the Sun
Lesson Plan: Water Filtration
Images: Nebraska Watersheds Map
Images: Nebraska Rivers Map
Lesson Plan: Cloud Gazing
Lesson Plan: Nature Journal
The Outdoor Skills After-School program offers a variety of lesson plans focused on developing outdoor skills.
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