Useful Links

General Science | Oceanography |  Educational Standards | Seashells   Outdoor Experiments for Children | Wetlands | Nature Writers  | Plants

General Science Species Locator An index of species. A search that will give you the scientific name as other classification information. http://www.thegateway.org  A  U.S. Department of Education website; provides lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources. http://www.acs.org   American Chemical Society website; provides a page for teachers and students with many links to other useful sites. http://www.terrificscience.org  Center for Chemistry Education website; provides information about workshops and camps for teachers and students, resources available from the Terrific Science Bookstore, etc.  http://ice.chem.wisc.edu  Institute of Chemical Education (ICE) website; at the University of Wisconsin; provides information about new materials, research on chemistry education, workshops for teachers, hands-on activities and laboratory programs for K-12 students. http://www.lhs.berkeley.edu University of California Lawrence Hall of Science website; promotes programs, publications, workshops and professional development programs for teachers. http://www.learner.org  Annenberg/Corporation for Public Broadcasting site; provides information about multimedia educational resources available on CPB channels and video. http://www.learnnc.org University of North Carolina School of Education online teacher development program, with a database of 2700 lesson plans. http://ncsu.edu/sciencejunction/  The North Carolina State University cyber-community for teachers, students and science researchers; promotes inquiry and provides a wide range of resources consistent with the N.C. Standard Course of Study. (back to top)

Oceanography  http://www.beach-net.com  Looks at beaches from a social studies point of view; students can learn about the beaches of the mid Atlantic, plan trips, work within budgets and read maps and classified ads. http://www.coast-nopp.org Offers K-12 oceanography lessons and resources from the Consortium for Oceanographic Activities for Students and Teachers. http://www.vims.edu/bridge/ Ocean Science Education Teacher Resource Center, maintained by the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. (back to top)

Educational Standards http://www.mcrel.org/standards-benchmarks  Provides an overview of nationwide science education standards, research on standards, curriculum and instruction, professional development resources. (back to top)

Seashells http://www.enature.com/ This site, eNature.com, is provided by the National Wildlife Federation, and the information provided is taken from Audubon Society Fieldguides. It provides a great source of information about seashells and ocean life for middle-school and high-school students.  The site contains identification information including pictures for over 4,800 plants and animals. Information pertaining to common names, scientific names, complet description, habitat, range, a discussion, and regional information is provided on each animal and plant listed.  The site's weakest point is  the layout of the first page.  The information provided is very good; however, the page seems too "busy."  Information for providing sufficient  bibliography information is scarce. http://www.worldwideconchology.com/MainFrames.htm   Conchology:  The Art & Science of Nature is an excellent site for high school students and teachers.  It provides  colorful and clear photographs of all species of mollusks and shells. It is easy to navigate through and when a picture is selected, informativeinformation about the animal is available in a printable form.  http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/index.html  Animal Diversity Web is an excellent site for anyone researching taxonomy of marine life. It is suitable for students in grades 4 - 12 because a common name may be used in the search.  The information is provided by reputable authors and the web site is updated on a frequent basis.  Links to other resources are readily available for use. http://www.seashell-collector.com/cleaning.htm  Cleaning Shells is a commercial site, but it has good cleaning information and links to how to buy shells for keeping in the classroom. http://www.arches.uga.edu/~amylyne/GSC/shellmakers.html  Shells of the Barrier Islands is good site for an overview on what to expect at Ossabaw including a checklist. http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmnh/mollusk1.htm  Print Resources on Mollusks is an excellent comprehensive listing of print resources by categories. http://library.thinkquest.org/15931/hiss.html The information on this website is accurate and was well chosen for the site’s purpose and audience.  The intended audience could be children/students as well as adults.  The site had good coverage of the topic.  It included the name of each shell presented, the family name, the length of the shell, and the shell’s habitat.  There was also a picture of each shell on the site.  The texts were also well edited on the site.  There was a copyright date of 1998 on the site.  http://www.jaxshells.org/ The information contained in this website is well chosen and presented well for its audience, which includes children/students and adults.  There is good coverage of the topic.  There is a big focus placed on shells in Florida.  The site does not present its information in a redundant way. http://www.seashells.org/   The information for this website is rich, accurate, and well chosen for the purpose and audience of this site.  There is good coverage of the subject matter of this site:  common names, species, class, order, super family, family, location, size, literature on the shells, and pictures of the shell. http://www.george-shells.com This website includes many different features. There are numerous links to various pictures on the site. There is an index in which you can choose what it is that you are interested in seeing. One of the strengths I found on this website was the index, where you can locate a topic you are interested in quickly, and click on that link. A weakness a found on this website was that I felt that the colors used were not eye-catching and dull. This website would be for both adults and children, because of the wonderful pictures. (back to top)

Outdoor Experiments for Children Experiments with Weather http://www.ucar.edu/40th/webweather/ Web Weather for Kids.  This website contains the answers to questions such as:  How do thunderstorms build? How does lightning suddenly zap down out of a cloud? How is a tornado formed? How can you tell how far away a thunderstorm is? Along with the answers and explanations to these questions are experiments such as making convection currents and making tornadoes.  The site has a guide, which appears to be a set of raindrops.  The guide gives helpful hints and also asks questions about certain concepts.  The experiments are explained and it is told why the experiment went the way that it did.  The intended audience seems to be older children, upper elementary through high school children.  The distinctive features of the website are the graphics and real life photos of classes that have done the experiments on previous occasions.  The strengths of the website are the graphics and diagrams.  The diagrams are simple enough to understand and are still detailed.  One weakness of the website was that a specific age was not identified for the experiments; I had to read through and guess the age that I thought appropriate for each one.  I do think that a lot of the experiments can be adapted to different age groups by changing a few things.  This website is very useful for teachers, parents, or anyone interested in teaching about weather to children.  It includes a section of teacher tips and has very thorough explanations of the experiments as well as the concepts.  The information is very up to date and exciting.  It does not cover boring topics, but makes weather fun and interactive.  http://weathereye.kgan.com/ Weather Eye has a wide variety of sources for experiments and lessons about the weather.  It has four main sections, which are the cadet section, teacher’s lounge, expert section, and the parent’s center.  The cadet section is for grades 2-6 and includes four additional sections, which are meet Sunny, lessons, experiments, and the current weather.  Sunny is the site’s mascot and this section tells about clouds and the sun.  The lessons include topics such as climate, weather broadcasting, lightning, flash floods, and clouds. The lesson plans are broken down according to age groups.  There are a wide variety of experiments that cover things such as crystals, bugs, plants, and radars.  Science careers, field trips, and books are also included in this section.  The last section covers the current weather over the nation with up-to-date satellite pictures.  The site also includes a teacher’s lounge with lesson plans and resources.  An expert section if for grades 6-12 and has experiments for this age group.  It also includes a photo gallery and an exploration section.  The last section is a Parent’s center, which includes a section called "Jumpin" and talks about the best ways to teach or help children with science.  It covers information such as making science hands on, that less is more, and science is fun not just facts.  The site is intended for all age groups.  It includes many graphics and interactive images and the font and text are large enough to read.  The site was easy to look through and all of the links worked.  This site would work with just about anybody.  It covers many age groups, has information for educators and parents, and is very informative.  http://www.srh.noaa.gov/elp/kids/experiments.html  The National Weather Service Page has many weather experiments for all ages.  Some of the activities are to make a snowstorm in a can, make a barometer, make clouds in a bottle, and a humidity indicator.  There is a link back to a page called Kid’s weather.  This page has better graphics than the experiment page.  The page includes weather games, weather safety, history, and pictures and videos.  One thing I really liked about this site was the parental safety issue covered.  The experiments have symbols placed beside of them if they require adult supervision and then it also double checks and you have to click on the icon to proceed.  I think that the graphics on the experiments page were lacking and that the front page may have been too wordy.  The site covered all age groups and the experiments could mostly be adapted to fit the appropriate age.  This website is very useful for anyone interested in learning more about the weather.  I could see using this website in upper elementary to middle school for the kid’s weather page, but I think that the experiments cover all ages.  http://web2.iadfw.net/kboyle/Weatlink.htmThis site, Weatlink, covers many different topics.  The weather page has experiments and demonstrations that teach how to build a water cycle, how to measure rain drop sizes, air pressure, and water vapor.  The site has lesson plans broken down into age groups and information on books related to science.  This site is geared toward older children; the experiments could not be adapted very easily to young children.  I think you could try to do them with young children, but the concept would be lost.  The site is very informative and is very specific.  The site does not have many images or graphics and is very wordy.  I think this website would be very useful in a high school classroom.  The children could self explore and try the experiments on their own if they wanted to.  The links on the page are very helpful and interesting.  This site is up-to-date and the information is diverse. Experiments with Insects http://insected.arizona.edu/home.htm This site, provided by the University of Arizona and CISEO (Center for Insect Science Education Outreach)  is very good for both elementary students and teachers alike. There are 20 lesson plans for teachers including special activity sheets along with all sorts of information sheets concerning insects. For the students there is a "Rearing Insects" section, explaining how to raise insects outside and inside the classrooms. This site is very credible as noted by the endorsement and funding award by the National Institutes of Health Science Education Partnership Award. The lesson plans are aligned with the National Science Education Standards. Finally, there is a button on the home page that allows a person to view this site in Spanish. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/alienempire/ Nature Alien empire is one of the best web sites for children learning about insects. This site was designed based on a PBS three-week Nature miniseries. It has everything including videos, graphics, sound and animation, and outdoors activities for children relating to insects. The only downside at all, is that you need a computer that can handle Shockwave Flash plug-in. This is required to view the Quick-Time 3 videos. But, even without the video this is a wonderful and very informative site for children to learn about insects. http://www.insectsafari.com/default_flash.asp    INSECTSAFARI.com is unique in two aspects. One it is a cooperative site between Orkin Pest Control Company and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Second, an elementary school can "book" a tour of the Safari Truck that travels all over the country. The graphic and information pertaining to insects is fair, but they do have some good experiments for children inside and outside of the classroom. Overall, the fact that the Smithsonian endorses this site and is a partner of this site lends credibility to the site. A good site to visit, but just don't expect too much. General Outdoor Experiments http://www.billnye.com/ This site, from Bill Nye the Science Guy, was fun and informative.  It had many different sections, which are Home demos, the question of the week, E-cards, U-Nye-Verse, the Nye store, episode guide, and the TV. schedule.  The home demos cover many different topics other than weather, but still covers weather topics such as making and reading barometers, tornadoes, and weather currents.  At the bottom of the screen there is a "did you know section," that has different facts that scroll across the screen and change about every 15 seconds.  This website was very interactive and included great graphics and sounds.  The words were a little small and it could have included more colors, but it was the most interactive site that I visited.  The episode guides were broken down into planetary science, physical science, and life science and included detailed descriptions on many of the different topics covered.  The U-Nye-Verse section did not work any of the times that I visited the site, but all of the other links were up-to-date and very recent information.  I think this site could be used for all ages, but I think that upper elementary and middle school children would be most interested in this site.  The show could be used along with the site to get additional information on a certain topic.  I also think this is a good site for teacher and parents to get information on a certain topic area, especially if they needed some last minute information.  http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/FR054   Kids in the Woods.  I found the content to be very helpful.  There is a description of different concepts that can be taught outside. She also includes several activities to use outside that involve the students actually doing things.  The students can measure, observe, and play games, which help them to learn the material and most importantly remember it.    Monroe is a Professor at the University of Florida and that leads me to think that the knowledge on this site is credible.  I found the information to be accurate.  As far as navigation goes, I found it fairly easy to find different things on her site.  However, I think it would have been easier if she used a navigation bar at the top where I could have clicked and the site would automatically take me to a particular section on the website.  The page is easy to read, however there were only two pages on the site.  Because of this I gave the site a three on design because I did have to scroll.  Overall I liked the site and can see myself using it in the future.  http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/kindergarden/Child/school/step.htm  Starting a School Garden.  The content is accurate, but I felt there were gaps.  There needs to be more background information and connection to teaching.  The last time updated was 1998.   The Department of Horticultural Sciences is a credible source and the information was accurate.  I liked this site because they had an endless list of activities for teachers to use in the classroom.  I chose this site because they provided directions on how to begin a garden at the school.  This site was intended for teachers to use so they will know how to grow a garden at school.  It was not an eye-catching web site.  It needed some color and pictures. http://ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/sci/cecsci/cecsci196.html  also   http://school.aol.com/teachers/index.adp   Top Teaching Tools.  The information on the site is accurate and well chosen for the audience.  There was not a lot of coverage of the topic and the last time updated was not listed.   The source of the site was posted by Academy Curricular Exchange Columbia Science Education Center and was written by a 5th grade teacher.  Contact information was available and easy to locate.  After the search you are allowed to click on different lesson plans.  When doing so a new window pops up for you and access from the page to the home page was not easy.  The pages did load quickly.  Design was simple with a limited number of fonts and colors, but does require the user to scroll.  When printing it was in a printable format.  I liked this site because it was easy to search for different lesson plans under different subject areas.  The site was intended for teacher use.  This site gets the students outside all year around observing changes in different sites.  I think students would love doing this project. www.tpwd.state.tx.us This website is a great site for educators, kids, and the general public.  The general public can find information about classes, such as hunter safety, and information about parks, etc in Texas.  Educators have a special place to find lesson plans and webcasts.  The lesson plans include lessons on ecological concepts, terrestrial ecology, and aquatic activities.  Kids have a Kid’s Page with activities, facts and birdwatching information. http://www.geoec.org  GEOEC stands for Global Environment and Outdoor Education Council.  This website has information for members of the organization, but also, free access to lesson plans and links. It is easy to use and worth looking at for needed information. http://www.riverofwords.org This website is affiliated with the Library of Congress Center for the Book.  Its main focus is using art and poetry in connection with environment and features a contest for students.  Educator’s Corner includes information about upcoming events, workshops, links to science, art, and poetry, plus a listing of other resources.   Teachers who want to integrate art and poetry with science will find this a very helpful website.  http://teams.lacoe.edu   This website is a Los Angeles County Office of Education website.  It has lesson plans on all subjects, but what is interesting are the multi-subject lesson plans links.  One particularly interesting link is to classroom projects.  It includes links to other good sites.  It is easy to use and very informational.  http://www.ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/sci/elem.html There are best for middle school teachers. Not all are outdoor activities but several are.  This is one of the best sites for outdoor activities. Several of the lesson plans are actually to be done outdoors.  They have not frills of pictures or graphics but well done.  There are 199 lesson plans. http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/archives/science.shtml These lessons are for elementary and middle school teachers mainly.  It has several lesson plans with additional sites at the end of the site.  Several are for outdoors or can be adapted to be outdoors. http://henson.austin.apple.com/edres/ccenter/enviro/env_activity_k3.shtml These are suggested activities for Earth Day for small children.  There are 365 activities. http://www.awesomelibrary.org/scienceg.html This site has an awesome number of lesson plans.  It is well categorized to find your topic.  Not many outdoor activities but a few.  Site lists activities for k-12 grades. http://familyfun.go.com This site has lots of activities for kids for occasions, as well as, indoors and outdoors.  Just takes a little time to find what you are looking for http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1992/5/92.05.07.x.html#h Pond ecology is studied on this website. http://www.lessonplanz.com A to Z Teacher Stuff, Pre-K level network has lesson plans and teaching resources. 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Wetlands http://www.miamisci.org/ecolinks/everglades/animals.html Everglades- Animals and Habitats. This site was created by elementary students, but it provides quality information.  The site is set up around five basic habitats of the everglades, the hammock, mangrove, pinelands, sawgrass, and slough.  There are also around forty different animals listed, grouped as mammals, reptiles, birds, and others.  Each animal can be clicked on to provide detailed information on the animal, including which of the five habitats it belongs to.  Each animal also has a real picture and a drawn picture of the animal.  The site does a great job of providing a variety of animals, but some of the animals have more information listed than the others.  This is a great way for students to associate the animals with their particular habitat.  http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/wetlands.html This site, from Kennesaw  State University’s Educational Technology Center,  can be useful for both students and educators.  It provides a long list of additional websites on wetlands to choose from.  The sites are merely listed, some with descriptors, others not.  There are additional sections for online lesson plans, online activities, and online quizzes, all relating to wetlands.  This site could use more descriptions as to what each site is about.  http://www.nationalgeographic.com/refuges/index.html This is the site of the U.S. National Wildlife Refuges Sanctuary.   After clicking on  "wetlands," the site gives more subtitles about various things pertaining to wetlands. These include topics such as Alaska, issues, and endangered species. This site was very useful especially for the Ossabaw trip because it let you explore a wetland and find out information on the Great Blue Heron, Fiddler Crab, Blue Crab, Great Egret, and Spartina Grass. It also describes a bog, prairie pothole, riverine bottomland, and a cypress dome. This website would be excellent for children to use to gain information on wetlands. http://www.ajkids.com/ This website from the Evergreen Project, Inc, would be useful for kids to find out general information about wetlands. It does not give very much information but covers the freshwater wetlands. This website tells why wetlands are important, lists wetlands in danger and shows some pictures of wetland creatures. There is not much here. http://www.epa.gov/water/kids/waterforkids.html This Environmental Protection Agency- Water For Kids website offers information about water. If you click on "wetlands" when on the site you can choose from information on science, education, and information resources for kids. I chose wetland education and found some useful information for teachers and students. The website offers some interactive activities, curriculum guides, education programs, teaching tools, and other valuable links related to wetlands education. http://www.wetland.org/   This website is kid friendly and useful for educating children about wetlands. It gives information on what a wetland is, what wetlands do for you, and what you can do to protect wetlands. It also allows you to click to find a wetland near you. There are activities for children and wetland words. This site is colorful and seems like it would appeal to a younger audience. The organization that put this website together is non-profit and has been dedicated to wetland restoration, education, and research since 1972. http://www.ag.iastate.edu/centers/iawetlands/Kidshome.html The Iowa Wetlands Riparian Areas Conservation Plan Kids’ Page is a good website for kids to use. It offers links to learn about wetlands, games, and activities. The one thing I liked best about this website is that it offers a link called cool kids that introduces kids who have helped wetlands. It also offers a library, which lists books according to grade that would be useful to learn about wetlands.  http://www.ducks.ca/edu/resource.html This website is great if one has money to spend on lesson plans and wetlands units. The lessons meet the Canadian education requirements for grades 4-12. There are links to research and conservation efforts, but there are not many. This website is really just a part of a bigger one. The  lessons are in English as well as French. So, if a teacher needed a French-language lesson plan, this would be a great resource. There is no real information on wetlands, if a teacher were trying to research them. The site is attractive and well laid out. The links are current and prompt to respond. http://www.jacksonbottom.org/educationcenter.htm What a wonderful website! The Jackson Bottom Wetlands Preserve is the site of a Wetlands Education Center that is growing by leaps and bounds. A main focus is education and awareness, which is evident in the programs and links available. There are clear links and the website parts are connected and marked well. There is a bird of the week section that highlights a bird found in wetlands; this would be a great way to start class on Mondays ? check for the new bird of the week. There are excellent resources available for all ages and grades.The resources are available online and are easy (and free) to print off. There are cheap field trips to this wonderful center of all kinds. A teacher would just pick the one that best suited the class and current unit of study. If one cannot take field trips, then there are a ton of excellent traveling programs that will come to the classroom instead. The only drawback about this wonderful site is that I would like to use this preserve as a resource and it is located in Oregon! What a loss for Tennessee teachers. However, there are still great resources available through this site that Tennessee teachers can access and use in their classrooms. http://wetlandspro.com/wetland_education.html  Wetlands Pro ? Wetlands Education in Science Field Trips.  The attention grabber at the top of the home page of this website says it all: "Attention teachers! Are you looking for new and inventive educational material for your class? Look no further! WetlandsPro has field trip material, curriculum guides, and advice for planning a nature field trip!" Usually, this would just be a lot of hype, but the website actually meets all of these promises pretty well. It is an excellent website resource for educators! The "Wetlands Value" part is one of the highlights. For educators who donot have a strong background in science and are unfamiliar with wetlands, this lays it all out. It defines wetlands and gives all of the specific reasons for why they are important. There are photographs to illustrate each part of "why wetlands are important." This site has great links and is of excellent quality. The credibility is high ? these are professionals. They are all available by email (or post) to answer any questions. This is not a website for educators to pass over! http://www.wetland.org Environmental Concern, Inc is another excellent website on wetlands for educators. There are resources to buy, resources to print, teacher support, lesson plans, pictures, and lots of information on wetlands. There are links to research, consulting, and constructing. Not only does this non-profit organization educate, it actually goes out and constructs wetlands. The organization is dedicated to "wetland restoration, research, and education since 1972." The professionals who run it are highly qualified and experienced. This organization also has its own publications and nursery for educators to use. (They both involve purchasing items, but the money goes toward wetland preservation, so it is a worthy cause.) The design of the page is great. Put the arrow over each icon and it will tell you what is available in that part of the site. This is not one to be missed! http://www.epa.gov/OWOW/wetlands/vital/toc.html  This U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Wetlands site has tons of information on wetlands! Some of the topics listed on the web site are: definition(s) of wetlands, protection of wetlands, current status, and how people interact with wetlands. The web site is geared not only to the general public, but also to educators & children. The most distinctive feature of this site is that it contains in depth information about wetlands restoration. The site has many strengths and no obvious weaknesses. The site is easy to use. You can navigate the site by using icons or by scanning the list of topics on the main page. The site includes an extensive list of legal documents and issues that deal with wetland usage, destruction, protection, etc. Science educators and students can find a plethora of information on wetlands as well as specific information on completing a restoration project. http://www.audubon.org/campaign/wetland/ecosystem.html  This site, titled What Is A Wetland Anyway and Why Are They So Important?, contains general information about wetlands while focusing on the conservation aspect. The intended audience is the general public, as well as educators & students. The site is very "kid friendly', with lots of graphics & content which is informative yet easy to read. One of the distinctive features of the site is that it contains a list of "nicknames" for wetlands. The only weakness or lack of information on the site is the fact that it does not contain a map which shows wetland coverage. I think that this is a great site for educators and students due to the large number of education links and the general ease of use of the site. (back to top)

Nature Writers http://eserver.org/thoreau/   This site includes lesson plans, readings notes from journals, a biography and links to many other sites on Thoreau.  I particularly liked reading about what Thoreau advised people to wear while enjoying nature. http://www.nasw.org/users/philipjo/ This site of a modern environmentalists, gives links to many sites that Philip Johansson either belongs to or writes for.  There are links to his articles on specific wildlife as well as personal entries on backpacking trips and skiing.  His research about fish on coral reefs was quite interesting.  This site is small, but interesting. http://www.ecotopia.org/ehof/ This web site is a quick review of major players in the environmental movement.  Sites for the six original inductees, as well as those that followed give succinct information and links to other sites for the authors.  I also enjoyed the newer link to living legends including Pete Seeger.  A great place to begin a unit on the environmental movement.  http://pages.cthome.net/rwinkler/ This is a contemporary nature writer’s own website.  It contains a collection of essays on birds and wildlife in new England.  The site was last updated June 24, 2002, so it is very well maintained.  This is a wonderful site and I really enjoyed reading Mr. Winkler’s personal philosophy of what a nature writer is and is not.  http://gloriamundipress.com/index.htm An excellent site "Dedicated to the appreciation and preservation of the natural world through the preservation of art." Beautiful photos, paintings, essays, fiction poetry and special exhibits.  There is a link to contact them, however, I did not find anything about how recently the site was updated. http://www.dickinson.edu/~nicholsa/Romnat/ index.html  This website is designed to survey the relationships between literary works and natural history in the century before Charles Darwin.  This could be a good site for students to get a feel for the ideas that were developing prior to Charles Darwin’s.  Texts are very good and have been updated recently. http://www.amnh.org/nationalcenter/youngnaturalistawards/ This is a very up to date website that has a primary mission of finding the nation’s top young naturalist through their writing.  The contest is sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History.  This is a very unique and well maintained site. http://www.jdhooker.org.uk/writings.htm This is a great website that highlights the works of Joseph Hooker, who wrote about the flora on the Galapagos Island.  This site contains not only things that he collected while on the Galapagos Island, but his personal story.  This is a very well maintained website the author writes about his openness to receive emails and make the site better through information that anyone else might want to share.  http://www.bartramtrail.org/ This site is dedicated to one of the most beloved nature writes in the world ? William Bartram.  This site was updated on March 23, 2002.  It contains speeches, discoveries as we as writings he has done about the southeast. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~PUBLIC/wilson/front.html This site contains information about an American Ornithologist writer named Alexander Wilson.  The site contains a collection of Mr. Wilson’s bird drawings and descriptions, which are very good.  The site also contains a biography of Mr. Wilson and a resources link that has a listing of all the works that Mr. Wilson has ever done.  This is a small site but has a very good solid information scheme.  http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/JMC/Olson This is a very good site about Sigurd F. Olson who was a very prolific and influential nature writer.  The author does a very good job at being as prolific as Mr. Olson because the author chronicles Mr. Olson’s life very well, and he does the same as far as Mr. Olson’s works.  This site is relatively old but the information that it presents is timeless. (back to top)

Plants   http://www.amfor.org.  The American Forests Association site is for all audiences, kids to adults. Sections included kids (lessons for kids); Your Effects on Global Warming; Urban Ecosystem Analysis and the National Register of Big Trees. I've used the site for years, and have even made nominations to the big trees list. It's a reasonably easy site to use. http://www.awesomelibrary.org/Classroom/Science/Science.html This site has numerous lesson possibilities and is worth a longer look.  http://www.proteacher.com/ This site was not as "well-stocked" as some, but many offerings were, at least, a different slant on teaching the plants. (back to top)