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LESSON PLAN REFERENCES
http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/gen_act/earth/trees.html - Lesson: Thirty good reasons for trees from Houghton Mifflin Education Place - Main Page http://www.eduplace.com/index.html
http://www.askeric.org/ - Ask Eric Lesson Plans
http://www.teachervision.com/
http://www.accessexcellence.org/
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/
http://faldo.atmos.uiuc.edu/CLA/ - University of Illiois, Collaborative Lesson Archive
http://www.edhelper.com/
http://www.ed.gov/free/index.html - Federal Resources for Educational Excellence.
http://www.watson.org/rivendell/index.shtml
http://www.teachers.net/lessons/
http://www.education-world.com/

PLANT INFORMATION, CONSERVATION AND ECOLOGY SITES

http://www.evergreen.ca/en/lg/lg-toolshed.html - Good source of guide to designing and creating natural schools grounds - All Hands in the Dirt. Printable pdf file of success stories in Canadian schools.

http://www.aces.edu/department/extcomm/publications/ - Alabama Extension System - factsheets online

http://www.watersorb.com/benefits.htm - An online company selling the superabsorbent polymers that we used in planting the demo garden at the Environmental Studies center. There are other companies with details on the internet, but this was the only site I found that had online ordering facilities.

http://www.ghorganics.com/page2.html - Golden Harvest Organics page has a useful list of companion plants, and how they could be used to deter pests etc.

http://www.gardenguides.com/TipsandTechniques/vcomp.htm - A good information site. This link is for the companion plants for vegetables.

http://www.kidsgardening.org/ - A Teacher's Resource page plus details of Youth Gardening grant.

http://www.bpcweb.net/activ/garden/ - BLACK PINE CIRCLE SCHOOL "The garden project plays a key role in providing a hands-on practical laboratory for many subjects in science as well as an important nexus for the integration of many different subjects. Because all students participate in garden projects, kindergarteners to eighth graders, they lend continuity to the science curriculum."

http://www.botanical.com/ - A Modern Herbal

http://www.botany.com/Common~1.html - Encyclopedia by Common Name

http://www.herbnet.com/ - Everything Herbal

http://www.communitygarden.org/ - American community gardening association.

http://www.familygardening.com/

http://www.ces.uga.edu/news/99garden/gardenin.htm - University of Georgia Resource

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ - University of Florida Extension Publications

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/kindergarden/kinder.htm - Kinder Garden

http://www.garden.org/ - National Gardening

http://www.organicgardening.com/ - Organic Gardening Information

http://www.americanforests.org/global_releaf/benefits/index.html - Global Releaf - Trees

http://www.aloe-vera.org/ - the Aloe Vera Page

http://www.foredbc.org/main.cfm - FORED BC is an educational non-profit association that brings the environment to the classroom in British Columbia

http://www.cityfarmer.org/schgard15.html#School - Vegetable gardening in schools.

SCIENCE REFERENCE SITES including plant, conservation, ecology matters

http://www.accessexcellence.org/Access Excellence, launched in 1993, is a national educational program that provides high school biology and life science teachers access to their colleagues, scientists, and critical sources of new scientific information via the World Wide Web. CORN (Maize) LINKS
http://www.ontariocorn.org/citc.html - Corn from Ontario. Facts and links.

http://www.cornfieldmaze.com/ - They build mazes .. out of maize, or as we usually call it, corn. There is a useful teacher's guide and student worksheet that you can print out - full of corny facts and activities in Planting Seeds of Knowledge.

www.ohiocorn.org/kids - Three activity pages for kids plus a teachers guide. If your kids have access to computers at school this is a good interactive site. Good cross-curricular activites.

http://www.jollytime.com/library/poppinlibrary.asp - Jolly Time Popcorn has this page of teacher resources about using popcorn in the classroom. Also a kids page.

http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson082.shtml - This site has a lot of lesson plans for all subjects. This one is called "Popcorn isn't just for movies anymore."

http://www.teachers.net/lessons/posts/91.html - Another site where teachers share lesson plans. This one uses popcorn to demonstrate Kinetic Molecular Theory.

http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/Interdisciplinary/INT0015.html - Another lesson plan sharing site, AskEric. This is A Day full of Popcorn.

http://home3.inet.tele.dk/starch/isi/starch/maize.htm - Corn facts from the International Starch Institute.



NATIVE AMERICANS AND COLONIALS

http://members.aol.com/circofire/ - First American Forefathers A constantly evolving site related to prominent Native Americans leaders of days gone by.

http://www.americanwest.com/pages/indians.htm - Some history of Native Americans, plus links to many other pages. Main page includes development and settlement of the American West including a section on medicinal techniques at http://www.americanwest.com/
http://tazewell.k12.il.us/dist102/MIC.home.html - See what another school did with a Native American project. Rogers Elementary 5th grade students researched "How the Native Americans interacted closely with their environment." Special focus was on the plants of Illinois and how the Native Americans used them to enhance their lives.

http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/teachers/teachpag/nagarden.html#grade - Some great ideas here !! Check out the making garden tools the Native American way. Aimed at Primary/Intermediate students the goals and objectives are:
To learn, and put in to practice, the methods of cultivating plants used by Native Americans including the prehistoric Middle and Late Woodland Indians while comparing and contrasting them with the Historic Indians, such as the Shawnee or modern methods. To keep a detailed journal of the growing cycle. These foods would then be used in the preparation of Native American dishes.

http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/indices/NAknowledge.html - Lots of Native American links from this site.

http://www.hfmgv.org/smartfun/ - SmartFun Online is an interactive classroom resource for teachers, media specialists, and students using images, objects, and documents from the collections of Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. Includes a section on "Be a history detective. Investigate the daily lives of the Daggetts, a colonial family from northeastern Connecticut"

http://www.execpc.com/~dboals/ - History and Social Studies links. "The major purpose of this home page is to encourage the use of the World Wide Web as a tool for learning and teaching and to provide some help for K-12 classroom teachers in locating and using the resources of the Internet in the classroom."

http://www.pressenter.com/~breck/index.htm - A teacher's resource for investigating medical plant use by indigenous people of the Americas.


INSECT RESOURCES

http://www.antlionpit.com/welcome.html - All about Antlions

http://bluehen.ags.udel.edu/deces/hyg/hyg-14.htm - Beneficial Insects, from Delaware Cooperative System

http://www.biohaven.com/ - Some information on insects

http://entweb.clemson.edu/index.htm - Entomology pages from Clemson University

http://www.ento.vt.edu/ - Entomology pages from Virgina Tech

http://www.ent.iastate.edu/list/k-12_educator_resources.html - Entomology Links for K - 12 Educators

http://www.ent.iastate.edu/list/k-12_educator_resources.html - All about insects from Florida State University

http://www.iit.edu/~smile/bi9601.html - an insect lesson plan

http://www.isis.vt.edu/~fanjun/text/Links.html - Links to Insects and pollination

http://www.denniskunkel.com/PublicHtml/Education05.asp? - The Federal Bug Intelligence Agency - great miscroscopic photography and bug facts.

http://www.earthlife.net/insects/ - Wonderful World of Insects

http://www.pollinator.com/ - All about pollination and the need to preserve pollinating insects. A GREAT gallery of pictures of pollinating insects!!! http://www.pollinator.com/Identify/whatsbuzzin.htm

http://members.aol.com/YESedu/teacmenu.html - Teachers Tower - lessons, quizzes, and link on insects.