Age: High School


The Pacific Northwest Fish Wars: What Kinds of Actions Can Lead to Justice?

This online lesson provides perspectives from Native American community members and their supporters, images, news footage, an interactive timeline, and other sources about an important campaign to secure the treaty rights and sovereignty of Native Nations of the Pacific Northwest. Explore the many actions Native Nations took to address injustices.


Nisqually Delta Restoration Puzzle

The Nisqually River Delta in Washington State provides a model of river estuary restoration and a hopeful message about our environment. This puzzle provides a hands-on learning activity for adults and children to visualize the impact of removing 100-year-old agricultural dikes at the Nisqually Delta on salmon and the thousands […]


BRIDGE Ocean Education

The Bridge Ocean Science Education Resource Center is an ever-growing collection of the best marine education materials available online. The Bridge provides educators with a convenient source of accurate and useful information on global, national, and regional marine science topics, and gives research scientists a contact point for broader impacts […]


Dungeness Crab Case Study

Dungeness crab is a valuable species throughout the national marine sanctuaries of the West Coast from Washington state to throughout California. This communication toolkit is designed for educators and communicators to use to teach others about the impact of ocean acidification on Dungeness crab. The toolkit includes: fact sheet; infographic; […]


PEI’s Sit Spot Activity

This activity, especially when repeated many times over the course of a month or year, helps students connect with the ecosystem around them and observe changes to the natural world. Many different versions of this activity exist, but we love this one from Pacific Education Institute! https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Tc8KSJR-jmdfZFVaG_A06YXiqSI21Eoo2rqK4dKSRXo/edit?usp=sharing


Cedar Box Teaching Toolkit

“This Toolkit is an educational resource featuring important native foods in Salish Country and the rich cultural traditions that surround them. The foods were selected because of their high nutritional value, cultural significance, and reasonable availability. The toolkit includes: • A cedar bentwood box, cooking tongs, cooking rocks, display containers, […]


How’s My Waterway? Site

How’s My Waterway was designed to provide the general public with information about the condition of their local waters based on data that states, federal, tribal, local agencies and others have provided to EPA. Water quality information is displayed on 3 scales in How’s My Waterway; community, state and national. More recent or more detailed water information may exist […]


Starflower Habitat Activities and Resources

Washington Native Plant Society’s Starflower Habitat Education Activities and Resources is amazing!  “…includes hands-on activities for teachers and students, native plant identification cards useful for all, weed identification cards especially handy for individuals engaged in restoring habitat, and informational posters to alert others to the joys of native plants, as well as […]