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http://www.laforestry.com

http://www.enn.com/
Environmental News Network:  offers daily environmental news, feature reports, audio files and special reports section for issues such as climate change.

http://www.epa.gov/epahome/search.html
EPA’s website and search tool.

http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt/eco.html
Busy Teacher Website with lessons and links to sites on a variety of topics including ecology and the environment.

http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/
Great site that has good activities and background information that complement PLT activities.

http://www.commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/letsnet/NoFrames/
BigIdeas/b10/index.html

Ten Big Ideas About Teaching:  has many good connections to other sites of interest.

http://www.heatersworld.com/bugworld/
Antboy’s Bugworld:  Everything you ever wanted to know about bugs and has great pictures.

http://www.leeric.lsu.edu/leeric/ee_education/
LEERIC’s resourcesite for teachers.

http://www.capecod.net/Wixon.wixon.htm
Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators:  offers listing to many other websites and lesson plans.

http://www.rff.org/
Resources for the Future:  looks at use of natural resources, waste management and risk assessment.

http://www.1stresource.com/t/treedoc/
Lesson plans about trees.

http://www.nj.com:8080/yucky/index.html
The Yuckiest Site on the Internet:  this site gives background on topics such as roaches and earthworms;  great graphics.

http://www.starfish.org
Environmental Education materials by Second Nature:  has a variety of materials for teachers.

http://www.ed.gov/pubs/triedandtrue/index.html
Tried and True Ideas for Teaching and Learning

http://www.catalinas.net/seer/er/tnc/toc.htm
America’s Least Wanted:  Alien Species Invasion of US Ecosystems;  site maintained by the Nature Conservancy.

http://www.uga.edu/~soforext/
The Electronic Forest Resource Library.

http://www.microsoft.com/k-12/
Microsoft’s k-12 Education Focus area:  offers suggestions on ways to integrate technology into a wide variety of lessons.

http://www.zapme.net/net/class/sitemap.html
ZapMe! Netspace:  a good source of lesson plans and links.

http://www.zip.com.au/~elanora/trees.html
Elanora Heights Primary School International Trees and Forest Projects on the Internet: offers a forum for sharing data collecting in many PLT activities.

http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~coalitn/sciedoutreach/funexperiments/
agesubject/subject.html
Southeastern Michigan Math-Science Learning Coalition:  A diverse group of contributors provides a wide range f resources for children and teachers ranging from lesson plans to web links.

http://member.aol.com.donnandlee/SiteIndex.html
Mr. Donn’s Pages:  This excellent site offers many links to other sites and provides tips on using internet information in the classroom.

http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/snackinto.html
San Francisco Exploratorium:  These Exploratorium Science Snacks are physical science activities that are modeled after exhibits at the exploratorium.  These activities use easily accessible items for teaching.

http://www.deq.state.la.us/assistance/earthday/habitat.htm
The DEQ website offers suggestions for creating and maintaining habitats for wildlife and describes Earthday 1999 projects.

http://www.saveourlake.org/lessons/
Lessons on the Lake:  An Educator’s Guide to the Ponchartrain Basin.