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Arrest That Pest! - Emerald Ash Borer in Indiana
This free, online set of five lesson plans seeks to improve understanding about what invasive species are and why they represent a serious environmental threat. The program focuses on the Emerald Ash Borer and the threat...
This Community Soundscape Planning Guide is to be used by communities in the United States and other places, to focus land use planning within the context of the sonic spaces of built and natural
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Enriching the Hoosier Farm Family: A Photo History of Indiana's Early County Extension Agents
Today, Purdue Extension delivers practical, research-based information that transforms lives and livelihoods. Tailored to the needs of Indiana, its programs include: Agriculture and Natural Resources, Health and Human...
This publication provides information regarding many benefits that we enjoy from our forests. Did you know that trees reduce air temperature, improve air quality, produce oxygen, and suppress loud sounds. These are a ...
Teachers and students in lower elementary grades will love our Half-Pint Economics curriculum publication. This curriculum has 20 lessons covering 11 KEP concepts as well as 7 other concepts focusing on helping kids m...
Healthy Water, Happy Home - Lesson Plan
Water is a vital natural resource. We need clean water for drinking, swimming, irrigating crops, and sustaining healthy fish and wildlife populations. The goal of this print-your-own boardgame is to help people unders...
Herschel Goes into Business - Super Combo
With the new DVD you get the 22 Original KidsEcon Posters as well as the new 12-inch Herschel puppet, which you can use to follow up and expand on concepts learned in the DVD. Your students will really enjoy learning ...
Herschel Goes into Business DVD (second in a series)
Herschel Goes into Business - A New Herschel's World of Economics DVD!
In this new DVD, Herschel the dog puppet - with lots of help from Dr. Day - learns about the challenges of running his own doggie treat bus...
Herschel Goes into Business DVD / Poster Combo
This combo set contains both the new Herschel Goes into Business DVD and the 22 Original KidsEcon Posters.
In the DVD, Herschel the dog puppet--with lots of help from Dr. Day--learns about the challenges of run...
Your students will love seeing you use this new 12" hand puppet of Herschel to reinforce the lessons in both of the Hersc...
Herschel's World - Complete Combo
This is a terrific deal! You get both DVDs--the original Herschel DVD and the new Herschel Goes into Business DVD. You also get the 22 Original KidsEcon Posters and the new Herschel 12-inch hand puppet for follow up ...
Herschel's World of Economics - Super Combo
With Herschel's World of Economics DVD you get the 22 Original KidsEcon Posters as well as the new 12-inch Herschel puppet, which you can use to follow up and expand on concepts learned in the DVD. Your students will ...
Herschel's World of Economics DVD
Elementary-age students will be charmed by Herschel, a feisty little puppet dog who thinks he knows a lot about economics, but still has a lot to learn. Dr. Day comes to the rescue and helps Herschel learn about impor...
Herschel's World of Economics DVD / KEP Poster Combo
This combo set contains both the Herschel's World of Economics DVD (11 posters covering econ...
Herschel's World-Double DVD and Poster Combo
You get both Herschel DVDs--the original Herschel's World of Economics plus the new Herschel Goes into Business. In addition, you get the 22 Original KidsEcon Posters.
In the DVD, Herschel the dog puppet--with ...
iListen.org Guide: Skills and Missions
Explore a jungle, a coral reef and a grassland along with listening to recordings around the world. This iListen.org guide gives students the opportunity to enter the soundscape lab and learn about soundscape ecology and...
KidsEcon Posters: 6 Core Economic Principles Poster
This poster represents six powerful ideas that explain the economic behavior of people. You and your students will discover new insights as you apply these principles to the choices people make in the study of: Civics...
KidsEcon Posters: Activity Cards
If you are looking for an effective and motivating way to reinforce the 22 KidsEcon Posters economic concepts, then the KidsEcon Posters Activity Cards are for you! Each deck consists of 88 sturdy economic concept car...
Reinforce poster concepts using the KidsEcon Posters Bingo Game. Each Bingo Game comes with teacher instructions, 23 colorful poster concept cards, 30 student Bingo cards, 800 markers, and one blank student card that ...
KidsEcon Posters: Financial Literacy Poster Set (5 different posters)
These poster's are just what a teacher needs to help students become better savers and investors. The five large colorful posters illustrate fundamental principles of sound money management. This set includes: Basic P...
KidsEcon Posters: Interest Can Work For You or Against You Posters (set of 2)
This colorful 18" x 24" two-poster set shows students how interest—with regular saving and investing—can help them earn a sizable amount of money for retirement. The posters also show how excessive, hig...
Learning About Leaves: A Forestry and Natural Resources Coloring Book
This coloring book introduces children to basic concepts of leaf shapes and tree identification....
Monsters Love Native Blooms: Exploring Indiana Native Plants and Their Habitat
This 22-page childrens book by Purdue University students helps young readers learn about 12 plants native to Indiana, focusing on where they live and thrive (prairie, forest, forest edge, water edge) and the role of lan...
Original KidsEcon Posters (22 different posters)
The KidsEcon Poster set has 22 colorful, professional quality posters that are 12.5 X 18 inches. The set includes: Goods and Services, Economic Wants, Productive Resources, Natural Resources, Human Resources, Capital...
Personal Finance Posters (11 posters)
The Personal Finance Posters are just what is needed to teach critical personal finance skills to our young people-or anyone! Each colorful, professional-quality poster is 12.5 x 18 inches and will liven up any classr...
Pint-Size Economics (24 different lessons)
Pint-Size Economics is the perfect curriculum for teaching your elementary students about basic economics, saving and investing, and being a wise consumer. Many of these concepts are now addressed in most state Stand...
Scattering the Seeds of Knowledge
Today, Purdue Extension delivers practical, research-based information that transforms lives and livelihoods. Tailored to the needs of Indiana, its current programs include Agriculture and Natural Resources, Health an...
Snakes of the Central and Northeastern United States
Snakes of the Central and Northeastern United States is a 126 page four-color book that helps readers identify, correct misconceptions, and increase awareness of snake conservation and biology.
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This audio tour guides you through a 150-tree trail while teaching you tree identification and forest ecology. It has the distinct advantage of demonstrating trees in a semi-natural setting and highlights all the m...
The Making of...Effective Extension Presentations
Successful extension programs and presentations allow you to shine and to enlighten your audience. This publication offers tips from experienced extension professionals to help you become a powerful extension presenter w...
The Nature of Teaching: Food Waste and the Environment
This unit of three lessons highlights the effects of food waste on water quality, climate change, and wildlife. In addition to a lesson overview and rundown of teacher materials, the unit includes three lessons: ''Foo...
The Nature of Teaching: Food Waste Solutions
This unit of two lessons teaches students reasons and solutions for food waste at school and home. In addition to a lesson overview and rundown of teacher materials, the unit includes two lessons: ''Food Waste Solutio...
The Trees of Indiana CD-ROM was designed for the student of dendrology who has some fundamental knowledge of taxonomic groupings of trees. Although this knowledge is not essential, it is helpful. An introductory secti...
Why Leaves Change Color--The Physiological Basis
This two-page publication discusses why leaves change color. This is due to leaf pigments and seasonal changes. Hardwood trees and conifer species are also covered. Information on the abscission layer and the best w...
Wildlife Habitat Evaluation Program: Wildlife ID and Equipment Flash Cards
These 5x3-inch flash cards feature color pictures of wildlife specimens and provide identification characteristics for each animal. The cards are used by participants in the Wildlife Habitat Evaluation Program (WHEP) ...
The world around us is full of amazing sounds that are often ignored by humans. Unfortunately, many of the sources of these sounds are actually in danger of being destroyed by human activities. The activities contained i...
Your Ecosystem Listening Labs (YELLS): The Science of Soundscape Ecology Student's Guide, Grades 5-8
This curriculum will walk students through the physics of sound, animal communication, listening to the soundscapes around us while analyzing and exploring sound. The activities contained in this package take students t...
