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
Who's My Local Contact?
Find local MDC conservation agents, consultants, education specialists or your MDC regional office with our quick lookup system.
- 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 Missouri classroom, home-school class or youth group.
- 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 Missouri classroom, home-school class or youth group.
- 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.
- 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.
- About MoNASPWhether you’re a parent, educator or school administrator, the Missouri National Archery in the Schools Program can help you build stronger, more confident and accomplished kids.
- Planting 120,000 Trees for Missouri Arbor DayPlant a Tree! Friday April 4 is Missouri Arbor Day.
- Rods, Guns and Wild RosesWhen I started working for the Conservation Department, I felt a sense of being at home with people who deeply enjoyed nature and the outdoors as much as I did.
- Help Toddlers Discover NatureAnyone who wants to have an impact on keeping a healthy natural world can begin at home by introducing young children or grandchildren to the outdoors.
- Drought and deer diseaseThe coincidence of this blog and what I found on a walk along a creek where we live is quite bizarre.
- Time to Plant Native ShrubsSpring is here!
- Planet OzarksYou don't have to wait for the television series. You can check out some of the most beautiful and wildest places right here in the Ozarks.
- Here Comes the Neo-tropicalsYou don't have to know all the names of birds to enjoy them but if learning the names is a goal, taking them three at a time makes the task much more manageable.
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