Field & Forest Academy

Learn outside. Grow inside.

Nature-based learning for ages 4–14, designed to help children get outside, follow their questions, and learn from the places they know.

Choose your next step

Families and educators can request a tailored learning path or curriculum project. We discuss scope, timing, and a quote through inquiry, then arrange invoicing for the agreed project.

Children and caregivers make field-journal observations with adult guidance on a forest trail.
Outdoor learning, held close to home

Browse programs by age

Start with the learner.

Start exploring

Take a real question outdoors.

Explore learning topics for a walk, garden, or nearby patch of nature, then ask us to shape a path for your learners.

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Field curriculum

Little Explorers: Needs of Living Things

For ages 4–6. Use this topic as a starting point for a tailored learning path or curriculum project. Tell us about your learners, setting, and goals to discuss the scope and materials.

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Begin with an inquiry. We discuss a quote and arrange invoicing for the agreed project.

Field curriculum

Little Explorers: Plants, Gardens & Growing Things

For ages 4–6. Use this topic as a starting point for a tailored learning path or curriculum project. Tell us about your learners, setting, and goals to discuss the scope and materials.

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Begin with an inquiry. We discuss a quote and arrange invoicing for the agreed project.

Field curriculum

Little Explorers: Pacific Northwest Plants, Gardens & Growing Things (Ages 4–6)

For ages 4–6. Use this topic as a starting point for a tailored learning path or curriculum project. Tell us about your learners, setting, and goals to discuss the scope and materials.

Request a learning path

Begin with an inquiry. We discuss a quote and arrange invoicing for the agreed project.

Follow the questions

Learning that notices connections.

Each topic creates room to observe, wonder, make, and share—without asking children to leave their own places behind.

Explore by topic

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Living things & survival needs

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Plants, gardens & seasonal change

03

Food, farms & livestock

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Wildlife & habitats

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Field skills & nature journaling

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Children collaborate over field journals in a meadow with educators nearby.
Learning values grow through shared observation, care, and belonging.

Learn by place

The region around you is part of the curriculum.

Regional field companions are structured for the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, and West, with locally reviewed editions planned for American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Children and adults walk together along a broad forest path.

Bring the outdoors into the learning week.

Explore the growing program collection, or tell us where your learners are beginning.