Teacher's Resource Guide - Biodiversity

Greening School Grounds: Creating Habitats for Learning (144 pages, 8 1/2" x 11", for grades K-12). In this new anthology from Green Teacher Magazine, readers will find step-by-step instructions for numerous schoolyard projects, from tree nurseries to school composting to
native-plant gardens, along with ideas for enhancing learning by addressing the diverse needs of students. Among more than a dozen schoolyard habitat options presented, the guide includes detailed articles on rooftop gardens, multicultural gardens, far-north gardens, desert gardens, butterfly gardens, ponds and prairie restorations.

Join in Explore Your World! Biodiversity Month, May 2002.

Explore Your World! Biodiversity Month is a time to celebrate America's rich diversity of life through educational activities and scientific exploration. Anyone can take part! Scientists, educators and citizen groups are organizing events. It's a great time to teach about biodiversity!

You can involve your students in Explore Your World! Biodiversity Month by organizing an activity to explore biodiversity for May 2002. Simply by registering your event with Biodiversity Month you can link your effort to those of others and contribute to a broader understanding of biodiversity.The Biodiversity Month webpage (biodiversitymonth.org) offers suggestions, resources to help you plan an event and teach about biodiversity, and forms to register with Biodiversity Month and report your results in May. Ideas include:

a) Organize a Backyard BioBlitz - an activity to get students outside, using what they have learned in the classroom to carry out a biological inventory of an area. By sending their findings to Biodiversity Month your students can participate in a national count and competition.
b) Organize a Biodiversity Fair or Festival - may include biodiversity projects and displays, or an outdoor nature activity.
c) Participate in many of the events taking place at museums and nature centers around the country to celebrate Biodiversity Month.

Biodiversity Month is part of the International Biodiversity Observation Year (IBOY) 2001-2002, in which scientists around the world are sharing information about Earth's biodiversity. Activities as part of Explore Your World! Biodiversity Month will also celebrate the United Nations International Day for Biological Diversity on May 22.

If you're looking for other Model EE programs or reference material, the links below may be helpful to you. These links to information by the U.S.EPA Web site is provided as a service to visitors to the EPA Mid-Atlantic States Environmental Education Web site. The U.S. EPA is not necessarily associated with or responsible for the content of these sites.

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