Nature Vision, Inc.

Connecting Kids to Nature

Nature Vision fosters appreciation and stewardship of our environment by educating and connecting community to the world around us.

About

We give students the science and tools to take action and be good stewards.

As an environmental education nonprofit, Nature Vision brings place-based, experiential nature programming to over 70,000 Pre-K through 12th grade students each year in King and Snohomish Counties.  By bringing our programs directly to schools and local greenspaces, we work to ensure that all students receive quality nature connections where they need them the most. 

What makes our programs so impactful?  They are:

• aligned with Washington State K-12 learning standards to support students on their STEM education journeys 
• integrate the latest scientific information
• anchored in details about local ecosystem for maximal relevancy
• often include environmental stewardship and community science projects
• help students discover every-day actions they can take in their homes and communities to connect with and preserve nature

Our Impact

The students we serve come from diverse backgrounds: one in three are eligible for free or reduced price meals and one in five are English-language learners. Nature Vision’s programming results in significant student gains in scientific knowledge, including every-day actions students and their communities can take to help our local ecosystems. We are proud to be educating and inspiring a new generation of environmental stewards and community scientists.

Read our latest annual report to learn more about how Nature Vision is supporting science learning and connecting students to nature.

Please donate to help us continue to connect students to the nature in their communities.

Our Programming

Nature Vision provides free in-person and remote programming to King and Snohomish County Schools throughout the school year in classrooms and outdoors: https://naturevision.org/free-programs-for-schools.

Nature Vision runs the Nature Preschool at Farrel-McWhirter Park in Redmond. Nature Vision Preschool’s emergent and play-based curriculum fosters social emotional learning, creative play, and connections to the natural world for 3.5 to 5 year-olds: https://naturevision.org/preschool.

Nature Vision offers Blue Teams, longer term learning opportunities that include an action project, such as native plant restoration, and community science https://naturevision.org/blue-teams.

Nature Vision hosts eights weeks of outdoor summer day camps in the following cities: Redmond, Sammamish, and Shoreline: https://naturevision.org/day-camp-programs-and-summer-programs.