City Nature Challenge 2019: New York City's Journal

Thanks to all the teachers who came to our iNaturalist training session last week! I just wanted to put a few links to education resources here to help you plan.

The CNC Education Working Group has a great set of resources (full disclosure: I helped put some of these together) accessible on the main CNC page: http://citynaturechallenge.org/education-toolkit/ The main page here has three basic getting started documents and then you can choose a grade band that's appropriate for you and find a list of 3-4 activities with descriptions (time, preparation, NGSS standards, etc.).

I mentioned this one from ESA during the training: http://www.esa.org/tiee/vol/v14/experiments/clement/abstract.html It's called "Exploring how climate will impact plant-insect distributions and interactions using open data and informatics"

Here is a general Citizen Science Toolkit from California Academy of Sciences: https://www.calacademy.org/educators/citizen-science-toolkit

A lot of our 2018 success can be credited to our great partners who organized and held events all over the five boroughs. We're looking to have even more events and partners this year! If you are interested in joining us, I'm gathering some information now to start planning. Please visit this page for more info and to register your interest: Information for Potential Partner Organizations.

If you'd like to get an idea of what kinds of public events happened last year, visit this post from our 2018 NYC City Nature Challenge journal.