Help Your Students Find Aim
Start a Missouri National Archery in the Schools program at your school and watch your students find aim like never before. We offer teacher training and equipment grants to help get your program going.
Tools For Teachers, Fun For Students
Get your classroom buzzing about nature. Our Discover Nature Schools instructional units feature full-color student guides, a teacher guide, teacher training and grant guidelines. See which unit is right for your class.
Discover Nature Programs
Designed to help families and women gain the knowledge, skills and confidence to know more about nature and enjoy more outdoor adventures. Find a Discover Nature Families or Discover Nature Women program near you.
Discover Nature Places
Looking for a great field trip? Bring your students, youth group or family to one of our nature centers, shooting range and outdoor education centers, or fish hatcheries. Find one near you.
Education
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- Education Grants Our education grants support Discover Nature Schools instructional units, Missouri National Archery in the Schools Program and field trips for K-3 students. We also offer the United Sportsman's League grant for Missouri FFA chapters.
- Inside the Classroom Discover Nature Schools and Missouri National Archery in the Schools are MDC's leading classroom programs. Use them to inspire students of all ages and abilities. Other classroom resources cover a wide range of topics, including Arbor Day and endangered species.
- Outside the Classroom The best place to learn about nature is in nature. Our places and programs help get your class or youth group outside and into Missouri's world-class nature. Opportunities include hundreds of conservation areas, including staffed nature centers, and star MDC programs such as Discover Nature Families and Discover Nature Women.
- Training Get training to improve conservation education in your classroom, home-school class or youth group. Offerings include MDC's Discover Nature Schools instructional units, Missouri National Archery in the Schools Program and national curriculum programs such as Project Learning Tree and Project WILD.
- Discover Nature SchoolsGet your students excited about nature now, and they’ll be conservationists for life. Discover Nature Schools is a conservation education program designed to help students get outside to experience fun, hands-on learning in nature close to home. The program includes student and teacher guides that meet state education standards, as well as grants for field trips and instructional materials.
- TrainingGet training to improve conservation education in your classroom, home-school class or youth group. Offerings include MDC's Discover Nature Schools instructional units, Missouri National Archery in the Schools Program and national curriculum programs such as Project Learning Tree and Project WILD.
- Inside the ClassroomDiscover Nature Schools and Missouri National Archery in the Schools are MDC's leading classroom programs. Use them to inspire students of all ages and abilities. Other classroom resources cover a wide range of topics, including Arbor Day and endangered species.
- Missouri National Archery in the Schools ProgramStart an archery program at your school and watch your students find aim like never before. We offer teacher training and equipment grants to help you get your program going. Use this minisite to learn more about MoNASP, find training opportunities and catch the excitement of state and national student archery tournaments.
- Nature UnleashedFun is in your students’ nature, and Nature Unleashed helps them get outside and explore it. Our new education unit for third- to fifth-graders has colorful, engaging student books and teacher guides. Field-tested activities are aligned to Missouri’s grade-level expectations, so you can use them with confidence.
- Outside the ClassroomThe best place to learn about nature is in nature. Our places and programs help get your class or youth group outside and into Missouri's world-class nature. Opportunities include hundreds of conservation areas, including staffed nature centers, and star MDC programs such as Discover Nature Families and Discover Nature Women.
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