Wild Classroom Daily Activity Plans

Read the diary of a polar bear patrol team member and write a journal entry imagining you are a part of the team protecting polar bears and people.

Why do polar bears have white fur? And nine other polar bear facts.

Arctic Conservation: Watch WWF's Elisabeth Kruger talk about Arctic animals, climate change, and indigenous communities.

How much do you know about polar bears? Take our quiz to find out.

Find out how much water it takes to produce the food items you might eat at lunch and create a pictograph.

Learn about the connections between different foods and species.

Pete Pearson from the WWF team talks about becoming a food waste warrior.

How does food waste effect nature? Take our quiz to find out.

Create a flipbook of information on the seven species of river dolphins and their habitats.

Freshwater dolphin species and facts. Learn about the charismatic animals swimming in rivers around the world.

Answer seven questions about your habits, personality and interests to discover which Amazon animal athlete you relate to most.

Interact and learn about dolphins and 15 other featured species

Place climate change clues in sequence to solve the mystery behind the missing sea turtle.

Everything You Need to Know About Coral Bleaching and How We Can Stop It.

Why are coral reefs turning white?

Learn about Coastal Seas with Netflix's original documentary Our Planet. Visit the Our Planet website to dive deeper into the topic.

Design your own unique tiger mask while learning about the physical characteristics of a tiger.

Where Do Tigers Live? And Other Fun Tiger Facts.

Capturing Amazing Footage of a Wild Tiger in Bhutan.

How much do you know about tigers? Take our quiz to find out.

Using similes and metaphors, write a poem that reflects the benefits of free-flowing rivers.

Learn why free-flowing rivers are important and what WWF is doing to protect them by clicking through an interactive illustration.

Learn about Fresh Water with Netflix's original documentary Our Planet. Visit the Our Planet website to diver deeper into the topic.

Discover how wildlife, people and entire landscapes depend on healthy, flowing rivers in a free augmented reality app.

Learn about monarchs' reliance on milkweed and create your own planter.

New study indicates a 53% decrease in area occupied by monarch butterflies.

WWF's Monica Echeverria answers questions from students about how monarchs survive their incredible journey.

What Kind of Milkweed Should You Plant to Help Monarchs?

Create climate timelines by recognizing patterns associated with climate changes.

Why are glaciers and sea ice melting?

Learn about why we need sea ice and how polar bears are impacted by climate change from watching these short videos by Our Planet.

Go through the "Teaching Wildlife and Climate Change" slides to learn about the impacts of climate change on species around the world.

Learn about different areas of the world that rely on sea turtles by creating ecotourism travel brochures.

How Long Do Sea Turtles Live? And Other Fun Sea Turtle Facts

A Turtle's Eye View of the Great Barrier Reef

Hawksbill sea turtle coloring page

Use creativity to create a public service announcement to raise awareness about wildlife crime.

Nine Reasons to Feel Hopeful for Wildlife

WWF's Giavanna Grein talks about wildlife trafficking and how she’s working hard to stop it.

Answer 8 fun questions about your personality and interests to discover the one animal that you relate to most. There are over 100 possible species!

Participate in a fun engineering challenge to learn about the problems an ecosystem will face when it loses an important member.

*Note: Although instructions are written for a group, this activity can be done individually.

Seven Unsung Ecosystems We Need to Survive

Learn about how all ecosystems are connected in the episode One Planet of the Netflix original documentary Our Planet.

The The Living Planet Report 2020 Youth Edition summarizes the health of our planet and the threats to its ecosystems.

Use your creativity to develop an invention based on adaptations found in nature.

Innovative Projects Help At-Risk Species Adapt to Climate Change

Meet the master of camouflage: the day octopus.

Listen as WWF's Dave Aplin discusses what makes the Arctic so unique and how wildlife have adapted to thrive in this harsh environment.

Write a persuasive letter for why our oceans need our protection.

Our oceans are haunted by ghost nets

Sir David Attenborough explains why we need a new global deal to protect our oceans.

Growing underwater noise in the Arctic puts whales and other animals at risk.

Create a collage to represent the impact of a common household ingredient has on elephant habitats.

What's the difference between Asian and African elephants? And 8 other elephant facts

Baby Elephant Learns to Use Her Trunk

How much do you know about elephants? Take our quiz to find out.

Complete an audit of your backyard or neighborhood to determine ways that it can better support species.

What is biodiversity?

Learn about threats to biodiversity in this game created in collaboration with WWF.

Check out your local biodiversity by identifying plants and animals using image recognition technology.

Use the scientific method to devise an experiment around human-elephant conflict.

With access to fresh water, a school garden grows

Women in Nepal lead the way in conserving forests

Green tips you can do at home

Create a map of a monarch butterfly's migration journey and learn the importance of healthy grasslands.

Working Together for Grasslands

A World without Bees

Create a butterfly feeder to add to your garden.

Create a model of a wetland to understand its benefits.

Valuing Nature: What is Nature Worth?

WWF's Anita Van Breda shares how nature can help us be better prepared for disasters.

Learn about threats to biodiversity in this game created in collaboration with WWF.

Read an article about wildlife rangers using GPS collars on elephants and compose a journal entry as if you were a ranger.

Saving biodiversity with tech and AI

New patented technology helps save endangered black-footed ferrets

WWF's Ryan Young shares how maps and other technology can be helpful tools when studying the environment.

Complete a scavenger hunt around your house to discover the number of products that come from forests.

*Note: Although the instructions indicate the activity is performed on school grounds, the procedure can be applied to any indoor environment.

Why the FSC label matters to wildlife and all of us

WWF's Linda Walker explains what makes trees so special

Answer these seven simple questions to discover the tree you relate to most.

Learn how your use of energy is connected to polar bears through cause and effect.

Read about what WWF is doing to enforce renewable energy and what you can do.

How a small Texas town is using wind power to create a cleaner future

How well do you know renewable energy? Put your knowledge to the test.

Create a hanging mobile of Amazon species, including the Amazon river dolphin.

What animals live in the Amazon? And 8 other Amazon facts

Learn about jaguars and play a game that tests your speed against theirs.

The Peruvian Amazon: A land of abundance

Use the log to record what gets tossed in the kitchen and determine ways to reduce food waste at home.

Ways to make your food go further

Change the way you think about food

Milk's impact on the environment

Create a jellyfish out of recycled plastic materials to understand how sea turtles often mistake trash for food.

What do sea turtles eat? Unfortunately, plastic bags

Meet the newly discovered ocean species polluted with plastic

WWF's Erin Simon explains the problem with plastics in nature and what you can do to help.

Set up this experiment to observe and understand the importance of soil to healthy life.

Party in the grass: the biodiversity of grasslands

Now available on YouTube, watch the Grasslands episode of the NETFLIX original docuseries, Our Planet.

Understanding grassland loss in the Northern Great plains

After evaluating your family's water use, rethink your day's activities with a tighter water budget.

Freshwater: Every Drop Counts!

Saving water and money with rain barrels

Water lilies coloring page

Follow these folding instructions to create a paper penguin.

What is a walrus haulout and what does it mean for the planet?

How narwhals use their tusks

Learn more about polar species like penguins, polar bears, and whales with this interactive app.

Write a creative letter to a future pen pal describing the state of Earth 50 years from now, based on our current use of resources.

Where did your can of tuna come from?

Want to help save the world's forests? Look for the FSC label when you shop.

Download and print the free game pack to learn about the Sustainable Development Goals.

Help birds stay healthy by creating a feeder to hang outside.

Grassland birds of the Northern Great Plains

Helping shy albatross adapt to a changing climate

Learn about the endangered Galápagos penguin.

Create a graph using data on threatened and endangered species populations.

Ride a rollercoaster through time to learn about causes of extinction throughout history in this WWF collaboration game.

The vaquita: 5 facts about the most endangered marine mammal

Climate change could imperil half of plant and animal species in the world’s most naturally rich areas

Use materials from home in this fun science experiment that demonstrates the effects of bycatch and the importance of sustainable fishing.

Shark Facts vs. Shark Myths

Learn about threats to ocean species from WWF's Vice President of Marine Policy, Michele Kuruc.

Saving Coral Reefs, One Fragment at a Time

Watch the Conservation in the Classroom livestream with Bas Huijbregts on African elephants and complete the puzzle.

Think you're a rhino expert? Take the rhino IQ quiz and put your knowledge to the test

Collaring a zebra to track its record migration

What do gorillas eat? And other gorilla facts

Read the comic story and then write a journal entry from the point of view of a tiger.

Stunning footage of snow leopard and her quadruplet cubs

What do pandas eat? And other giant panda facts

WWF's Asian Species expert, Nilanga Jayasinghe, shares about her work protecting tigers.

Put your artistic skills to work in this detailed sloth coloring page.

See the outcome of a giant tortoise traffic jam in the Galapagos

Why are sloths slow? And six other sloth facts

Decorate your own flamingo mask

Create a bison origami to pair with the bison segment of the WWF Together app.

Welcome home! Bison released into new territory

WWF's Kristy Bly shares about one of North America's most endangered mammals—the black-footed ferret.

Ten interesting facts about gray wolves

Put your artistic skills to work by coloring this detailed image of a baobab tree.

Seagrass – the lesser known superstar in the fight against the climate crisis

Mangroves may be one of nature's best defenses against a changing climate

Learn about all of the benefits forests provide by watching the Forests episode of NETFLIX’s original docuseries, Our Planet – now available on YouTube.

Download the SEEK app and use it to identify the species in your own backyard.

Watch the together possible video to learn about how we approach our work.

Read about various ways climate change is impacting species and what WWF is doing to help.

See if you can correctly name the species leaving behind each sample.

Learn about zones of the ocean and the diving abilities of various marine species in this game of limbo.

*Note: Best played with a group but can be set up by an adult and played by an individual.

Bizarre deep-sea crustaceans

Learn about conservation in the twilight zone from WWF marine scientist, Dominic Andradi-Brown.

Explore the open ocean in the High Seas episode of NETFLIX's original docuseries, Our Planet – now available on YouTube.

Create a plaster handprint and compare its size to that of a polar bear paw.

Giants of the Ocean: Whale Facts

Think you're a lion expert? Take this quiz about the big cats.

Color in this detailed drawing of the world's largest land animal, the African elephant.

Cut out and decorate this template to create your own orangutan decoration.

Living among the trees: Five animals that depend on forests

Take this quiz about one of the Amazon's famous residents: the jaguar

Now available on YouTube, watch the Jungles episode of NETFLIX's original docuseries, Our Planet.