Welcome to Exploring Nature Educational Resource — an award-winning website with natural science content and materials for educators, students, and parents.

Students can use the animal databases to research animal reports, complete homework assignments, and find pictures of their favorite animals. They can learn to draw animals, work on vocabulary with word searches or just have fun doing mazes and watching wildlife movies. Parents have a resource for helping their children do online research and complete school assignments. They can choose from the dozens of science activities for educational and creative rainy day pastimes.
Librarians, classroom teachers, and homeschoolers can use Exploring Nature to develop lesson plans for units on animals (mammals, birds, insects, spiders, sharks, fish, amphibians, reptiles, etc.), plants (wildflowers, trees, cacti, etc.), biomes (forests, deserts, oceans, polar regions, rain forests, wetlands, the tundra, etc.), adaptations (structure and function), farm animals, life cycles, food webs, ecology, the human body, genetics, space and the environment.
About the NEW Exploring Nature...
We have been hard at work to make the site more user-friendly for different age groups, easier to navigate, and we have added TONS of new content.
- All content on our site before September 2008 is STILL HERE and STILL FREE.
- We have added additional content that is available to paid subscribers only.
- Annual subscription rates have intentionally been kept low to ensure that every school can join (see our member benefits)
- We now offer 3 different levels of the site, each with a unique look and feel.Over the next year, all three levels will begin to evolve into reading and activity levels that are more specific to the ages groups. For now, let your kids choose the level with their favorite look!
- Download coloring pages, labeling pages, illustrated handouts and worksheets
- Find resources for developing educational nature trails
- Incorporate more than 100 inquiry-based and observational science activities into classroom projects and lessons
- Use the resources to guide substitute teachers
- Use the extensive glossary
- Integrate English Language Arts (ELA) with science education
- Find National Science Standards and see how each database and activity meets those standards
Educators are encouraged to send in requests for more science topics and species that they would like to see added to the website. Exploring Nature was developed to meet the natural science needs of educators and students. Tell us what you need!




