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In a world filled with complex environmental challenges, where children are spending less and less time outdoors, how do we build an inclusive conservation movement to create the next generation of conservationists?

Nature Works Everywhere - SXSWedu 2015 Submission

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In a world filled with complex environmental challenges,

where children are spending less and less time outdoors,

how do we build an inclusive conservation movement to create

the next generation of conservationists?

The Nature Conservancy’s Nature Works Everywhere initiative is a free, digital education program that brings

the science expertise of the world’s largest environmental organization directly into the classroom.

Using over 600 staff scientists, Nature

Works Everywhere teaches the science behind how nature works to produce

our clean air, water, food and energy.

Digital curriculum aligned with national standards, videos and interactive tools help students learn the natural sciences while never leaving their classrooms.

View the video Coral Reefs – Feeding and Protecting Us, featuring Conservancy scientist Steph Wear, on the biological interactions of a coral reef and why these are important to us.

View the video Pollinators – Putting Food on the Table, about the importance of bees, butterflies, and other pollinators in the food systems that sustain us.

In the Conservancy’s workshop on this innovative program, we will explore the Nature Works Everywhere digital curriculum, including our

hands-on activities and lessons, garden design tool, and videos.

You will walk away with an entire tool box of digital resources to help you bring nature into your school and classrooms.

We will also be joined by one of the Conservancy’s leading scientists. Join us for the chance to meet one of these environmental experts:

Steph Wear – Marine

Biologist and Director of Coral Reef

Conservation

Jie Yu – Climate

Change Scientist and

Director of Policy for China

Heather Tallis – Lead Scientist, Human Dimensions

Peter Kareiva – Chief Scientist