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Backyard Jungle is designed to be challenging, rewarding, fun and safe for kids. It is a powerful web system to enable users, individually and collectively, to explore the outdoors around them and around the USA. It is fun, and as much as it draws users to their computers, it also sends them away to investigate the things that live in the natural environment around them. In doing so it is educational and challenging, and it is building an amazing and powerful set of data from people's neighborhoods around the country.

April Update

Spring has finally sprung and Earth Day is on the way! Backyard Jungle would like to welcome those two important events with our own Worm Safari challenge. Worm Safari encourages kids to explore the amazing life of earth worms and provides educational information about how they contribute to the wellbeing of our soils. Fun, fun, fun!

Email Updates

We send periodic email updates to our adult audience (parents, teachers, press, others) about how the website is working for kids, and new features we add. Register your email here to receive these Backyard Jungle updates; see our Privacy Statement if you have any questions.

Lesson Plans

These lessons are designed to help teachers integrate the Backyard Jungle website into the classroom and introduce concepts related to exploring the outdoors.

• Be an Outdoor Photojournalist (NEW)
• Nature Journaling
• Plant Survey: Native and Exotic Plants

Write to Us

In the future we will be adding various new features, including more lesson plans and a more structured Challenges section. If you have ideas for new activities, lessons or experiments, please send your suggestions to listenup@backyardjungle.org!

Backyard Jungle was funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and is designed and operated by staff from Forum One Communications.

For more about the project and these organizations, go to the About Us section of this website.

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To understand how the website operates, read the Where do I Start? section, or join as a member and try it out!

We are keenly interested in the perspectives and ideas of parents and teachers. Please send us your additional thoughts to listenup@backyardjungle.org.