Welcome to OBIS

Outdoor Biology Instructional Strategies

Welcome to OBIS


What was OBIS? What will OBIS become?

OBIS is an outdoor program that offers young people fun and challenging opportunities to investigate ecological relationships in their local environment. The 97 OBIS activities, which take youngsters outdoors to investigate biology and to increase their enviornmental awareness can be used together or individually.

On this website you'll find outdoor education resources from the OBIS project.

On the OBIS website, you can download all of the original activities for free, keep track of your favorite activities, participate in the online OBIS community, and give us your feedback as you use OBIS. Your insight is invaluable as we update this precious curriculum for the 21st century.

To get started reviewing OBIS resources, log inwith your username and password on the right, or sign upfor a username and password.


OBIS is a project of Lawrence Hall of Science.