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These sites offer innovative educational material or teacher workshops about the
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This site offers camps, adventures, and great research instruments. Audubon Adventures
is an environmental education program for children in grades 3-6, while Audubon
Camps such as the "Get Swamped" offers something for everyone.
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This engaging site offers teacher workshops (such as one designed for grades 3-6
about wetlands), a wide variety of wetland teacher guides, dozens of wetland-related
activities, field trip guides, and wetland animal information.
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The Wild-Lab site educates students about the Louisiana Wetlands through an online
Earth Science curriculum for 5th-7th graders. It includes streaming videos, quizzes,
and many more activities to challenge your students with.
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This web site offers educational resources for all ages. It has maps, videos, and
a photo gallery revealing Louisiana's wetlands. BTNEP also has two interactive CDs
and several workshops available to all educators.
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Louisiana Coastal Wetlands Conservation and
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This web site offers Watermarks magazines and a slide show about Louisiana's coastal
restoration, while providing a Kid's Corner for students. Requests for free educational
materials, such as CDs, can be made.
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LDWF offers many exciting educational workshops for teachers and students. One example
is "Marsh Maneuvers", a 3-day wetlands education camp for senior 4-H students
to learn hands-on about Louisiana's coastal wetlands.
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Louisiana Marine Education Resources
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LaMER's web site offers educational programs, such as "Ocean Commotion"
and "Scope-on-a-Rope," along with dozens of classroom resources. Just
click on a classroom resource link to discover endless activities!
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Find an assortment of K-12 classroom aids in virtually every school subject. Discover
something for all your curriculum needs! View the extensive library and make use
of their activity guides, educational videos, and hands-on materials.
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North Carolina Coastal Reserve
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This site offers videos about the wetlands, internet field trips, lesson plans,
resource links, and educator workshops. North Carolina has many estuarian animals
and habitats similar to that of Louisiana, so don't pass up this great site!
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The Pontchartrain Institute's Coastal Wetlands Education Program offers opportunities
to teachers and students to learn about the values and issues of our coastal wetlands.
Programs include field trips (4th - 12th), summer programs (7th -12th) students,
and teacher workshops.
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Check out this web site for great teacher resources and a wonderful kids page! The
education site offers grade-specific criteria and activity guides (wetlands activity
included), while the kids' site offers several wonderful discoveries!
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This site offers teachers several classroom activities related to wetlands such
as one titled "Mixing it Up." In this activity students study the composition
of soil and make their own soil mixtures to learn how soil helps plants grow.
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This site is dedicated to K-12 education, exploration, and life-long learning about
how biology, geology, and geography can help us understand our changing world with
project ideas, homework help, classroom projects, trivia, and more!
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Topographic and aerial maps along with satellite images of coastal Louisiana can
be found here. Each teacher supplement has resource manuals, photography, and maps
for every WETMAAP area along the Gulf Coast.
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These sites offer lesson plans or activities involving wetlands.
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CC Lockwood, a renowned Louisiana photographer, and landscape artist Rhea Gary have
joined forces to take you and your students through Louisiana's vanishing coast.
It gives an inside peek to the people of Louisiana's wetlands.
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Ducks Unlimited launched Project Webfoot, a nationwide effort to raise awareness
and appreciation of wetlands among students, teachers, parents and communities.
Project Webfoot provides teachers with learning materials that can be integrated
into the existing school curriculum to help bring the world of wetlands to life
for 4th-6th grade students. These materials encourage active participation and problem
solving using an interdisciplinary approach that can be implemented to teach reading,
science, art and other subjects.
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Kids Club offers projects, games, art, and helpful tips for Grades K-4. The Student's
Site offers club projects, fun activities, and educational resources for grades
5-8. The teacher site offers lesson plans, activities, and much more!
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This web site offers lesson plans for grades K-12, a wetland coloring book, wetland
facts for all ages, a wetland reading list, and links to online wetland resources.
A great site for any Louisiana teacher!
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Journey North is a web site dedicated to engaging students in the study of wildlife
migration. Students can track monarch butterflies, bald eagles, robins, hummingbirds,
manatees, and whooping cranes on a global scale with this wonderful web site.
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This web site offers activities, fact sheets, and lesson plans about water quality
and its effect on wetlands, along with general environmental issues and other wetland
links for teachers and students.
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Louisiana eight-graders can learn about an extraordinary wet and wild area in the
very heart of our state--- the Atchafalaya Basin. DNR's Atchafalaya Basin Program
offers a five-part learning tool to help students know more about this remarkable
and most productive habitat for fish and wildlife. Check out additional teacher
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This web site supplies educators with several activities for all grade levels, such
as: learning where wetlands are located, how they form, what the functions of wetlands
are, and how they are being lost everyday.
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NWF's site allows you to create and certify a schoolyard habitat, access educator
resources, or invite a NWF representative to your school for a teacher workshop.
Incorporate habitat and nature topics into your curriculum today!
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Click on "Backyard Conservation," then on "Backyard Wetland"
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With 26 National reserves providing K-12 education programs, this site is not one
to pass up! Activities include: hands-on field experience during full-day or half-day
field trips, teacher training programs and more.
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The Northwest Fisheries Science Center has established a strong level of community
Involvement, outreach, and education. The organization hosts teacher workshops and
brings touch tanks to schools.
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DOI's teacher site lists links for Life Science, Ecology, and Earth Science. Make
sure you click on the link "Classroom Activities" and pick the activity
titled "All Shapes and Sizes." For some even greater wetland fun, chose
the link "Frogweb."
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This web site offers links for kids, older students, and teachers. Each web page
contains appropriate information and activities such as "Woodsy Owl" for
kids, "Classroom Earth" for students, and curriculum ideas for teachers.
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These sites offer specific wetlands information directed toward educators and students.
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American Rivers is a nonprofit organization that has been dedicated to protecting
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This web site offers coloring books, videos, and quizzes about Louisiana's wetlands
for kids of all ages. You can take a wetland tour with Mr. Bill, order a free Estuarian
Activity Book, or download a wetland education matrix.
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Learn what an estuary is, watch streaming videos of wetland activities, and visit
links to other estuary sites such as the North Carolina National Estuarine Research
Reserve and the Albemarle Pamlico National Estuary Program.
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This web site describes wetlands and explains their functions to students and teachers.
Several fact sheets on wetlands are displayed along with information on how wetlands
are protected. This is a great resource for teachers!
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The DNR web site provides facts about population, marsh acreage, commerce, fishing,
and the Christmas tree program in Louisiana. Also, Kermit the Frog helps DNR spread
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The coloring pages for the kids on this site include many wetland animals such as
crawfish, brown pelicans, white perch, and many more. It also allows students to
learn about the state symbols, history, and Governor Kathleen Blanco.
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This site offers games, activities, lesson plans, and so much more. Make sure you
check out the Environmental Biology section and find the downloadable booklet for
grades K-5 titled, "The Young Scientist's Introduction to the Wetlands."
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The educator's page offers curriculum resources, activities, and community service
projects, while the student's site invites kids to explore and learn about fish,
wildlife, and plants and how they can help conserve and protect them.
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Ducks Unlimited is a world leader in wetlands conservation and this site offers
invaluable facts about wetlands. For example, "A recent study estimated that
1 acre of wetland can store over 1.5 million gallons of flood water."
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Learn more about the wetlands through this highly informative web site. Subjects
discussed include: "Where the Wetlands Are," "Not all Wetlands are
Alike," "Wetlands are Busy Places," "Plant Life," "Wildlife,"
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This web site gives a personal look at the immediacy of Louisiana's eroding coast
from the perspective of the people that live there. Restore or Retreat (ROR) is
a non-profit group created to help save the Barataria and Terrebonne basins.
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Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana
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This site offers a resource guide for teachers who want more information on Louisiana's
coastal wetlands. This is a great site from which to download publications and receive
updates on activities about coastal wetlands in your area.
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This site offers dozens of links about the wetlands in Louisiana, or if you chose
to venture even further in, the site offers links to other habitat and wetland activities
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