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Habitat Network: Explore

For Students 9th - 10th
View images of a variety of habitats, check-out custom local resources, and get inspired by featured habitat sites.
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Habitat Network: Seeds, Glorious Native Seeds

For Students 9th - 10th
A guide to finding the right seeds for a particular backyard habitat.
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Habitat Network: 8 Reasons to Plant Something New

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about eight habitat-enhancing reasons to expand the plant diversity in a backyard.
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Habitat Network: Native Landscaping Makes Sense

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn why planting native plants helps any backyard habitat and increases biodiversity.
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Habitat Network: Native Flowerbeds

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out why flowering plants are foundational in the understory of a structurally diverse habitat.
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Habitat Network: Installing and Maintaining a Native Lawn

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how the native approach can improve a yard to provide habitat for birds and other wildlife while keeping a grassy open area for recreation.
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Habitat Network: At a Brand New Home

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out what to do with the habitat of a blank canvas at a new home landscape.
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Habitat Network: On a Median

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about the habitat along the sides and medians of millions of miles of roads.
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Habitat Network: Woodland Edges

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about the higher bird diversity at the boundary of two habitat types than in either type individually.
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Habitat Network: Wetlands

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how to support wetland plants and animals in a backyard habitat.
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Habitat Network: Meadows and Grasslands

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how to create a backyard habitat which provides a more meadow-like environment for birds.
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Habitat Network: In Your Yard

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this guide to create a habitat that attracts and sustains various bird species.
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Habitat Network: Don't Be an Ecological Trap

For Students 9th - 10th
With the help of some economics metaphors, Habitat Network delves into the scary-sounding "ecological trap" and helps bring it to light.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: The Prairie Project [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th
"The Prairie Project" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about students who learn about the prairie, take a field trip to see one, and then plant one on the school grounds. It is followed by constructed-response questions which...
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Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology

Ciese Collaborative Projects: Bucket Buddies: Environmental Study

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Bucket Buddies is an opportunity for students to participate in a world-wide environmental study. By identifying organisms in pond water, participating classes can compare their findings, and look for relationships in data. In addition...
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Project Wild: Wildlife Is Everywhere! [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Teach students to be more aware of the wildlife in their surroundings, inside or outside. Includes lesson, extension activities, and evaluation ideas.
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World Bank Group: Vietnam Coastal Wetlands Protection and Development Project

For Students 9th - 10th
Understanding the culture of an area before giving aid is crucial. A slideshow and written explanation of mangrove replanting and other schemes designed to prevent severe coastal erosion in the Mekong provinces of Vietnam demonstrate the...
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Habitat Network: Support Birds: A Goal for Your Site?

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out what citizen scientists can do to provide appropriate habitats for native birds.
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El Education: Local Habitat Survey and Animal Research

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students observe animals in several habitats and then choose one animal to research. Students learn about physical adaptations that help each animal live successfully in its habitat and then draw a picture of their animal which is later...
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Your Local Resources

For Students 9th - 10th
Enter your zip code, and find out about your ecoregion, a unique combination of living and nonliving factors that set your landscape apart and determine what will flourish there.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Bug Vacuums: Sucking Up Biodiversity

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this science fair project you can take on the role of a wildlife biologist by examining the biodiversity of insects in your own backyard. To do this, you will follow the directions to create a homemade bug vacuum.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Antlion Pits in Open Sand or Under Leaf Cover

For Students 5th - 8th
Antlion larvae are known for their predatory ways. In sandy areas, they dig pits to trap ants or other crawling insects that happen to stumble in. This project shows you how to create a mini-environment for antlion larvae to test their...
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Habitat Network: An Introduction to Habitat Connectivity

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about the idea that landscape connectivity is a critical concept in ecology.
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Habitat Network: Habitat Feature: Bat Houses

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how providing bat houses can be beneficial to a habaitat.

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