Many of us don’t realize that while we are stomping, separating, and bundling our recyclables, other creatures are also busy recycling. Nature’s recyclers are responsible for turning dead plants and animals back into usable nutrients for new plants and animals.
Play Recycler-opoly, an online quiz game from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to test your [...]
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Recycler-opoly
11-May-08Freebies at Wal-Mart on Earth Day
03-Apr-08As part of Earth Month 2008, Wal-Mart will be giving away a million custom-made reusable shopping bags on Saturday, April 19, 2008 at 8:00am Local Time.*
Plastic bags can take as long as 1,000 years to degrade. If you miss out on the free reusable shopping bag, don’t panic. Wal-Mart sells their reusable shopping bags made [...]
Earth Day - April 22
21-Mar-08Celebrate Earth Day EPA’s Earth Day Web site offers you many tips and fun ways to protect the environment and your health every day. Check out the Earth Day Take Home Kit.
Earth Day Network find all the information you need to plan your event, get involved, and help protect the environment.
Planetpals Greatest Earth Day Pages [...]
Butterfly Unit Ideas
31-Jan-08Food Idea: An easy item for lunch (or even breakfast sandwiches) is after the sandwich is made, cut it diagonally. Separate the two pieces (the butterfly’s wings) and put in the middle a baby carrot or gherkin.
Bugs for Your Belly kind of looks like a butterfly.
A butterfly unit by Barbara Pratt.
Symmetry - Find patterns in [...]
Explore Your Public Lands
04-Jan-08Walk on the Wild Side: Explore Your Public Lands Activity Book
Learn more about the fish, wildlife, and plants that inhabit America’s public lands. Caves, archaeology, wild horses, minerals and more. Viewable online and downloadable in pdf.
Federal Citizen Information Center has many pamphlets available to order or download.
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Denver Museum of Nature & Science
04-Jan-08Please join in for their new Home School Days! These special days offer flexibly structured, open-ended discovery opportunities designed to help home school students investigate natural and cultural history, and space and health sciences. Add your name to their Home School Days mailing list by calling 303.370.8225 or make reservations (required) at 303.322.7009.
While you plan [...]
Life of the Forest
01-Jan-08Due to the large demand for International Paper Company’s free to order Life of the Forest, the materials are now out of stock for ordering via their website. They are updating their free printed materials and hope to make them available this year. You can download the posters with teacher’s guides and booklets.See how paper [...]
EPA Learning
01-Jan-08EPA’s Student Center lists an A to Z Index that has lots of resources. View the EPA Kids Site and Teaching resources for lesson plans and activities from EPA and many other sources, grouped by topic. Order EPA publications free materials for you and your students such as the Planet Protector Kit and lots more.
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2008 Wildflower Reference Guide
31-Dec-072008 Wildflower Reference Guide and Seed Catalog. Free to US. You can also download this over 7MB version in pdf.
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