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Favorite Links

The National PLANTS Database
www.plants.usda.gov/

Midwest Landscape plants (University of Wisconsin)
http://www.midwestlandscapeplants.org/plantdetails.cfm?speciesid=656

Missouri Botanical Gardenshttp://www.mobot.org/gardeninghelp/plantfinder/Plant.asp?code=A163

Boston School Forest - BSF Curriculum Files
www.wisp.k12.wi.us/education/components/docmgr/default.php?sectiondetailid=151
    * children
    * nature

Leave No Trace
www.lnt.org/programs/principles.php  
    * LNT
    * hiking

Dallas County Conservation Department www.co.dallas.ia.us/conservation/Maps/Maps.html
    * Iowa
    * parks

Dallas County State DNR wildlife management areas
www.iowadnr.gov/wildlife/wmamaps/wma_d_j.html#dallas
    * Iowa
    * Parks

Polk County Conservation Board
www.conservationboard.org/Pages/podcasts.aspx
    * Iowa
    * parks

Project BudBurst
www.windows.ucar.edu/citizen_science/budburst/
    * phenology
    * plants

Outside In March 2007
Missouri children's publication
www.mdc.mo.gov/kids/out-in/
    * children
    * nature
Make A Milkweed Bracelet
Using plants for cordage. Easy directions with not a lot of special treatment.

The Nature Journal as a Tool for Learning
www.newhorizons.org/strategies/environmental/matsumoto.htm
    * nature
    * journal

Nature journaling
www.familyfun.go.com/parenting/learn/activities/feature/famf78nature/famf78nature.html
    * nature
    * journaling
    * trees
    * natureplay

Education World® How Does Your Tree Measure Up?
www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/03/lp309-01.shtml
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    * children
    * curriculum

Iowa Core Curriculum - ..Earth and Space
www.corecurriculum.iowa.gov/Discipline.aspx?C=Science&D=Earth%20and%20Space
    * Children
    * curriculum

Quia - Monarch Mysteries
www.quia.com/cb/5679.html
    * butterflies

How to draw trees
 http://www.how-to-draw-funny-cartoons.com/image-files/cartoon-trees-3.gif
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Arnold Arboretum -Tree Basics online
www.arboretum.harvard.edu/programs/tree_basics.html
    * trees
    * identification

RNR: "Dendrology Scavenger Hunt" Lesson Plan
www.sftrc.cas.psu.edu/LessonPlans/Forestry/Dendrology.html
lesson plan for 9 - 12 graders
    * Children

Pruning - Landscape plants - Edward F. Gilman
www.hort.ufl.edu/woody/treestructuremain.html
    * trees
    * pruning

The Nature Conservancy - JWN - Winter Tree Identification
www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/indiana/misc/art23595.html
    * trees
    * identify

ISUE Publications Store - Home
www.extension.iastate.edu/store/Default.aspx
    * trees
    * plants

Leaf Collection Lesson -- Illinois State Museum
www.museum.state.il.us/ismdepts/botany/herbarium/LeafCollection_Lesson.html
leaf collection curriculum   
    * herbarium

Living Prairie Herbarium
www.livingprairie.ca/herbarium/browse.html#skip2
An online herbarium of scanned pressed plants
    * herbarium
    * prairie

Virtual Hikes Through The Prairie [Landscape Change/Landscape Loss]
www.livingprairie.ca/livinglandscape/hikes/clouds.html
A virtual tour of the prairie near Winnipeg.
    * clouds
    * weather

Tree Identification and Anatomy
www.forestry.about.com/od/thecompletetree/u/tree_anatomy.htm#s2   
    * trees
    * identify

Identify Butterflies
www.wisconsinbutterflies.org/
    * butterflies
    * identify

Bug guide
www.bugguide.net/
    * bugs
    * identify
Aquatic invertrabrate guide
www.bsu.edu/web/mpyron/484info/Insects/List.html
    * Aquatic
    * invertrabrates

Illinois Wildflowers
www.illinoiswildflowers.info/
with uses by birds and insects
    * identify
    * prairie
    * plants

Journey North: A Global Study of Wildlife Migration: Monarch Butterfly
www.journeynorth.org/
Still the best phrenology site
    * phenology
    * nature

Handbook of Nature Study
www.handbookofnaturestudy.blogspot.com/
The best nature journal blog I have found.
    * children
    * nature
    * blog

 

 

The Brenton Arboretum
Open 9:00 AM until Sunset
Closed Mondays, open holidays
Phone: (515)-992-4211
Email: info@thebrentonarboretum.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Brenton Arboretum
Open 9:00 AM until Sunset
Closed Mondays, open holidays
Phone: (515)-992-4211
Email: info@thebrentonarboretum.org