For Teachers

Looking for Photos? USCA Forest Service's "Find-A-Photo" Web site allows access to thousands of copyright-free wildlife, fish, wildflower and EE photgraphs available for nonprofit use. Butterfly photo by Berlin Heck.

Nationally recognized standards-based science education in the forest. Increase your understanding and appreciation of California's forest ecosystems, learn about environmental education concepts and curriculum materials. Offered during June and July. For more information visit: www.forestryinstitute.org

Project-based environmental competition for 4th, 5th and 6th grade classrooms. Also offers a free environmentally based program with curriculum developed by leading educators and scientists. For more information go to http://disney.go.com/planetchallenge/

This program provides education and materials to bring Monarch Butterflies into the classroom. Current extreme weather has eliminated early milkweed growth...your participation is critical. Current funds will be allocated to the first 4,600 registrants; additional registrants will be added inorder to the wait list to await additional funds. Register today and start whenever your schedule permits.

Combine the power of radio, the Internet, and Project Learning Tree activities to enhance learning in the classroom. Earth & Sky produces short daily radio shows on a range of environmental topics. These 90-second shows can also be downloaded for free from the Internet and many are correlated to Project Learning Tree (PLT) activities.

Both Web sites provide a wealth of additional resources for educators and students for each radio show and PLT activity:

By Jane Kirkland, author and publisher of the award-winning Take A Walk® series of nature adventure books. No Student Left Indoors: Creating a Field Guide to Your Schoolyard, is a guide for K-8 grade teachers to create an interdisciplinary nature-study in any schoolyard. Stillwater Publishing, June 2007.
http://www.takeawalk.com

California Aquarium Education Project (CAEP) - Salmon in the Schools
Through a classroom experience of hatching live fish, CAEP will introduce students to the value of aquatic environments, the balance that must be met to maintain, protect and enhance California fisheries and aquatic habitats and enable students to understand how their actions affect these valuable resources. http://www.dfg.ca.gov/oceo/caep/