Welcome to Nature Notes. Here you will find stories and updates from Environmental Volunteers programs and see natural science education in action. Stay tuned as we add more content!
This is a series of at-home activities designed for students to easily do on their own with some adult supervision, using tools which can be found around the house... Read More
The Environmental Volunteers love to bring fun, hands-on activities into school classrooms and lead kids on field trips in nature. Now that all of our classrooms have moved to our... Read More
Cristo Rey San Jose High School is located in East San Jose and now virtually everywhere. With a student population of 459 and 93% of students being Latinx, Cristo Rey... Read More
i People and businesses use plastic items every day for convenience, but a social-cultural study proves that using too much plastic has negative effects on people and their communities. It... Read More
Virtual School Program on Plants and their Parts for 1st grade A little bit about me Hello! My name is Morayo and I am the Education Intern this year!... Read More
The environment has always been a prominent subject in all forms of art. Landscape paintings and wildlife photography are forms of art which capture what we see, or even feel,... Read More
By Obi Kaufmann Obi Kaufmann’s California Field Atlas is a creation of the heart. It is an atlas, field guide, history, and art all rolled into one, and we are... Read More
Each year the EV trains a handful of teen docents and last year we started a new teen cohort designed to create community, enrichment, and connection among the next generation... Read More
Huddart Park Nature Walk 2021 Happy Spring! All of us at Environmental Volunteers very much appreciate your support as volunteers, donors, and friends. We wanted to take a moment to... Read More
I think most of us can agree that we’d prefer to work with students in person – that’s one of the main reasons we got into the field of Environmental... Read More
Vesper Sparrow This past year, author of H is for Hawk, Helen MacDonald published her latest book, Vesper Flights. It is a diverse collection of 41 essays about the human... Read More
“Kiss the Ground” summary: Kiss the Ground discussed the topic of climate change and how the Earth’s soil is able to draw tons of atmospheric carbon out of the air. Read More
