Hudson River Park provides this curated list of resources for educators to explore topics related to our programming.
Hudson River Park
- STEM Lessons and Activities
- Life in the Piles poster
- Fish in Hudson River Park poster
- Our Living Estuary presentation (also available in Google Slides)
- 2026 Fish Calendar
General
- Aldo Leopold Foundation
- NY DEC, Hudson River Lesson Plans
- Cary Institute, Education
- Clearwater, Teacher Resources
- NYC DEP, Environmental Education
- NYC Audubon
- Project Wet
- Project Learning Tree
- Project Wild
- HRECOS, Lesson Plans
Estuary Basics
- USGS, Water quality
- NY DEC, Meet the Hudson River
- Cary Institute, Watersheds
- Cary Institute, Tides
- NY DEC, Tracking the Salt Front
- HRECOS
- Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Snap Shot Day
Wildlife
- Sea Grant NY, Fish Lesson Plans
- Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Fish Anatomy
- HRP E&E, Fish in Hudson River Park
- National Park Service, Catch and Release Fishing
- NY Department of Health, Fish Consumption Guidelines
- NY DEC, Growing up as a Striped Bass
- Trout Unlimited, Trout in the Classroom
- Two Claws Up, Horseshoe Crabs in NYC
Plankton
- NASA Earth Observatory, Plankton Overview
- Cary Institute, Plankton and Foodweb
- Clearwater, Food Webs
- Cary Institute, Fish food web
- University of Arizona, In class plankton lessons
- National Geographic, Phytoplankton and Oxygen Production
- NOAA, Plankton Data and Resource
Terrestrial
- University of Illinois
- Cornell Lab of Ornithology K-12
- PestWorld for Kids K-8
- USDA Forest Service, Urban Forestry Laboratory
- NY Tree Field Guide App
- USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
- Trees are Good
Maritime History
- Lake Champlain Maritime Museum
- Lilac History
- Frying Pan History
- Nauticus
- Scholastic
- The Mariner’s Museum
Oyster
Compost
- Grow NYC, Compost Food Scraps
- Eartheasy, Guide to Composting at Home
- NYC, Compost Project
- Personal Creations, Home Compost Guide
