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Earth Day isn’t just a celebration, it’s an invitation. An invitation to step outside. To slow down. To look closer at the world around us. This week, as classrooms across the country open their doors to the outdoors, we’re encouraging teachers, students, and families to pause and wonder: What can we learn from the bees buzzing by? The wildflowers blooming? The systems quietly at work beneath our feet?

Pollinators...bees, butterflies, birds, and even bats, are some of nature’s most fascinating teachers. They show us how interconnected life really is. How something as small as a bee can have an enormous impact on food, ecosystems, and our everyday lives. And how small actions like planting a native flower, skipping the pesticides, or building a bee hotel can make a real difference.

That’s the spirit of Earth Week at Out Teach. It’s about sparking curiosity. It's about real-world learning that starts with a question and grows into something more.

To support that spark, we’ve created a new, free activity guide, "Pollinator Power!" It's full of ideas for outdoor journaling, comic strip storytelling, vocabulary exploration, and actions students can take to protect pollinators. But more importantly, we’re inviting you to make this your own.

Use our Earth Day Padlet wall to share what your students are discovering outdoors. Whether it’s a drawing of a flower, a map of a pollinator system, a nature journal or a photo of a student-built bee hotel, we’d love to celebrate and uplift their learning.

Here are a few ways to contribute:

1. Share student drawings or nature journal pages
2. Create and upload “Pollinator Protection Posters” with one action your school can take to help pollinators
3. Post photos of outdoor investigations or your pollinator patch
4. Tell us: What impact do pollinators have in your schoolyard?

We’ll highlight your posts throughout the week to inspire others across the country. This Earth Day, let’s reconnect with the wonder right outside our doors, and give students the chance to be scientists in the field, right where they are. Because the best way to care for the Earth…is to fall in love with it first.