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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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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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
