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Nature Notes
Birds & Butterflies Habitat Powerpoint
These resources can help you in creating outdoor learning environments,identifying wildlife and natural phenomena and in linking your nature and science curriculum to NJ Preschool Teaching & Learning Expectations : Standards of Quality
Creating Outdoor Habitats Create a certified schoolyard habitat SEEDS The NJ coalition for schoolyard habitats Animal Planet/Backyard Habitat School Gardening Resources Herbs and Butterflies Cooperative Extension at Rutgers U. Learn the truth about bats and how to create a habitat for them. MissHope.com ( Our Monarch page) BatConservation.org
Monarch Butterfly Workshop Resources
Professional Development and Classroom Materials: Monarch Teacher Network/Global Connections NEW JERSEY COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION National Wildlife Federation/Outside in Nature Nature Action Colaborative Developmentally Appropriate Nature Education for Young Children Video on Nature Education EDUtopia Earth Day Network Peterson Field Guides NAEYC Wild Places in New Jersey Science Songs and Poems at CanTeach Emints: TONS of online resources in variuos subject areas The EPA Environmental Kids Club
Monarch Teacher Network/Global Connections NEW JERSEY COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION National Wildlife Federation/Outside in Nature Nature Action Colaborative Developmentally Appropriate Nature Education for Young Children Video on Nature Education EDUtopia Earth Day Network Peterson Field Guides
Peterson Field Guides
Children's Books/Nature
Animal Track Matching Game to print
Outdoor Science & Discovery Activities and Questions
Get Outdoors!
Log Hotel/out of print..buy it used..cheap.
Projects Project Feeder Watch,The Great Backyard Bird Count and The Christmas Bird Count at BirdSource Journey North! A Global Study of Wildlife Migration and Seasonal Change "Unpave The Way For Wildlife" at Journey North Monarch Butterfly Waystation Project at Monarch Watch Journey North: The Symbolic Migration Our classroom Monarch Project Keeping Track Project Bud Burst Urban Bird Studies Project Ruby Throat (Hummingbird) Children's Nature Sites Cool Science KidWings Your Big Backyard USGS Kids Corner A Walk in the Woods EcoKids Play & Learn Bird Sounds Bug Games! Jigsaw Puzzles for everyone to enjoy! Fantastic Forest Find Monty ( The caterpillar) Shopping ( as well as great information and resourses) Acorn Naturalists Online Store Insect Lore Wild Birds Unlimited Kids Gardening Digital Microscope Grant Opportunities Outdoor Classrooms Kids Gardening Operation Green Plant ~*~Freebies~*~ Life of the Forest posters and materials Free Milkweed Seeds Free tomato seeds National Arbor Day Foundation materials Best Friends : The American Kennel Clubs teaching kit Vernal Pool Poster
Bird Sounds
Bug Games!
Jigsaw Puzzles for everyone to enjoy!
Fantastic Forest
Find Monty ( The caterpillar)
Shopping ( as well as great information and resourses)
Articles related to Science and Nature from the NAEYC: Celebrating a Young learner at Work: Marcus the Scientist To RUN, STOMP, or STUDY Hissing Cockroaches in the Classroom Rewards of gardening with children "Science in the Preschool Classroom: Capitalizing on Children's Fascination with the Everyday World to Foster Language and Literacy Development," "Science at the Center of the Integrated Curriculum: Ten Benefits Noted by Head Start Teachers" "Using Language During Science Activities" "Quick Recipe Science Unit" "Familiar Children's Books Related to Science Topics" Starting Children on Science
Celebrating a Young learner at Work: Marcus the Scientist To RUN, STOMP, or STUDY Hissing Cockroaches in the Classroom Rewards of gardening with children "Science in the Preschool Classroom: Capitalizing on Children's Fascination with the Everyday World to Foster Language and Literacy Development," "Science at the Center of the Integrated Curriculum: Ten Benefits Noted by Head Start Teachers" "Using Language During Science Activities" "Quick Recipe Science Unit" "Familiar Children's Books Related to Science Topics" Starting Children on Science
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