Resources

Recording the Seasons

Citizen science, stewardship and government programs in Canada, For information: http://www.stewardshipcanada.ca/stewardshipcanada/home/scnIndex.asp#

Thousand Eyes Project is about the observation and recording of certain natural history events such as plants flowering, http://www.thousandeyes.ca/english_en/whatis.php

The Children and Nature Network, building on Richard Louv’s book on children and lack of nature experience, http://www.cnaturenet.org/movement

Birds Give Us Clues

Flute’s Journey: The Life of A Wood Thrush written and illustrated by Lynne Cherry

Robins and Climate Change—find connections through Journey North,

http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/robin/sl/5_ClimAlt/0.html

Cornell Lab of Ornithology Citizen Science Programs:

• BirdSleuth You can observe birds, collect data, ask your own questions and discover answers—and publish your results. See what it means to be a scientist,

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/birdsleuth

•Celebrate Urban Birds allows kids and their parents to record the presence or absence of birds and see how birds are using green spaces, http://www.urbanbirds.org

•Nestwatch find out whether birds are nesting earlier, http://watch.birds.cornell.edu/nest/
•Project Feeder Watch Kids and adults count their backyard birds every day and send their data to scientists to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, http://www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw/
•The Birdhouse Network Put up a birdhouse or nest box in your yard and observe the birds that live there, http://www.birds.cornell.edu/birdhouse

“Migratory Birds Severely Impacted by Climate Change” a report by the UNEP --United Nations Environmental Program 2007,

http://ww.unep.org/themes/biodiversity/docs/WMBD_pressrelease.pdf

Clues from Flowers

Project Budbreak Helps monitor how climate change affects native plants in Central NY,http://budbreak.tc.cornell.edu

Project Budburst Join children all over North American and help scientists learn about regional climate by helping Project Budburst collect important climate change data on the timing of leafing and flowering of trees and flowers in your area.

This is part of The National Phenology Network, http://ww.uwm.edu/Dept/Geography/npn/ a national citizen science project that targets native tree and flower species across the country.http://www.windows.ucar.edu/citizen_science/budburst/

Plantwatch, Canada part of Canadian NatureWatch, http://www.naturewatch.ca/english/select_province.html

Butterflies Change their Range

Where Butterflies Grow by Joanne Ryder and illustrated by Lynne Cherry

My Monarch Journal by Connie Muther, photography by Anita Bibeau

Journey North and Climate Change Year after year, Journey North students carefully observe and chart the timing of plant growth, animal migrations, and other seasonal events that are affected by day length and climate. They explore how living things are adapted to their environments and interdependent with other organisms, http://www.learner.org/jnorth/

North American Pollinators Protection Campaign works to protect all kinds of pollinators from mammals to mosquitos, http://ww.nappc.org/

Monarch Larva Monitoring Project researches and collects long-term data on larval monarch populations (eggs & caterpillars) and milkweed habitat, http://www.mlmp.org

Lincoln Brower’s website, http://www.biology.sbc.edu/faculty/HomePageLPB.html

Clues from the Tropical Rainforest

The Great Kapok Tree written & illustrated by Lynne Cherry

The Forever Forest: Kids Save a Tropical Treasure by Kristin Joy Pratt-Serafini and Rachel Crandel

Frogwatch USA You can help monitor numbers and locations of frogs, toads, and amphibians through this project sponsored by the National Wildlife Federation and the U.S. Geological Survey, http://www.nwf.org/frogwatchUSA

Frogwatch Canada is part of the Canadian volunteer monitoring program, a joint program of the Canadian Nature Federation and Environment Canada’s Ecological Monitoring Assessment Network, http://www.naturewatch.ca/english/select_province.html

Monteverde Conservation League/Bosque Eterno de los Niños Oversees a rainforest preserve created, supported, and continuing to expand from contributions from children all all over the world, http://www.acmcr.org and http://www.mclus.org

Rainforest Action Network’s “Seven Things You Can Do to Save The Rainforest”,

http://ran.org/fileadmin/materials/education/factsheets/RAN_SevenThings.pdf

Nature Conservancy Adopt an Acre,

http://www.nature.org/joinanddonate/adoptanacre/about/

Tree Rings And the Northern Forests

Ultimate Tree Ring Web Pages http://web.utk.edu/~grissino/default.html

Urban Forests an educational site about trees, http://www.coloradotrees.org/benefits.htm

Schoolyard Long-Term Ecological Research, http://www.lternet.edu/news/article55.html

Tundra, Arctic, and the Antarctic

Gus Shaver’s website, http://courses.mbl.edu/SES/faculty/shaver.html

Lessons from the Arctic from the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory,

http://www.mbl.edu/publications/catalyst/pdf/catalyst_spring07.pdf

“Not Too Late to Save the Polar Bear” a report from the Center for Biological Diversity can be found at, http://www.biologicaldiversity.org

Kids Do Ecology has information about the tundra and other biomes, http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/nceas-web/kids/biomes/index.html

Tiki the Penguin, a cartoon character, has energy ideas, http://tiki.oneworld.net

Global Warming 101 has Arctic adventures with Explorer Will Steger, http://www.globalwarming101.com

Students on Ice enables students to join expeditions to the Antarctic and the Arctic, http://www.studentsonice.com

Student Partners Project brings together students, teachers and scientists exploring the Arctic, http://www.studentpartnersproject.org/about.html

Make a simulated ice core, http://www.ku-prism.org/resources/polar/icelessons.html and see other polar ice measurements and activities from PRISM for students and teachers,

http://www.ku-prism.org

Native Knowledge is a National Science Foundation program that brings native hunters and elders together with scientists, http://www.nativeknowledge.org

The National Snow and Ice Data Center has lots of “cool” information, http://www.nsidc.org/cryosphere.

Mud Cores, Ice Cores, Oceans and More

Mud Cores and Dinosaurs: the article by Dr. Richard Norris appeared in Currents, Fall 1997, and is available through the WHOI store, http://www.whoi.edu

Greenland Ice Cores, the official site, http://www.agu.org/revgeophys/mayews01/mayews01.html

Ice Cores: A National Science Foundation article, http://www.nsf.gov/about/history/nsf0050/arctic/climate.htm

Oldest Core from Antarctica, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/06/040611080100.htm

Earth Observatory, NASA’s excellent site for climate, geological and space news. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/Paleoclimatology_IceCores/

Oceanus is an online magazine of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution that explores the ocean depths, http://www.whoi.edu/oceanus

Scripps CO₂ Program: The official site for Charles David Keeling’s CO₂ measurements and the Keeling curve, http://www.scrippsco2.ucsd.edu/introduction/introduction.html

The 1000-year Temperature Chart: background can be found, http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature_record_of_the_past_1000_years

“Ocean Circulation and a Clam Far From Home” by Dr. Lloyd Keigwin, http://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/viewArticle.do?id=16126

“Fresher Ocean, Cooler Climate,” about Ruth Curry’s research, http://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/viewArticle.do?id=7115

Web of Life

The Reason for a Flower by Ruth Heller

Kids’ Planet, by Defenders of Wildlife, has a fun story about the web of life and a spider web, http:/www.kidsplanet.org/wol/index.html

Build a Bee Condo for native bees! Instructions, http://ww.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/kids/activities/beebox.shtml

North American Pollinator Protection Campaign has plans for teachers, http://www.nappc.org/curriculum/

National Geographic’s film is a must see: “Strange Days on Planet Earth: Predators”

(2005, 58 minutes)

What You Can Do

Five Reasons Why, a film about climate change and the involvement of youth, http://www.fivereasonswhythefilm.com

Calculate the impact of specific behavior on carbon emissions at the EPA’s site, http://www.usctcgateway.gov/tool or at Nature Consevancy’s http://www.nature.org/

The cheeseburger footprint: it takes 20 to 40 times more energy to feed cattle and process meat than other foods. See websites by Open the Future http://www.openthefuture.com/cheeseburger_CF.html,

I Buy Different, http://www.ibuydifferent.org

Earthstorm, a model weather science site, http://earthstorm.mesonet.org/

Oregon Walk + Bike to School, http://www.walknbike.org

Alaska Youth for Environmental Action (AYEA) is an environmental education and leadership program, the Alaska arm of National Wildlife Federation’s national high school program, Earth Tomorrow. Read about their 3-2-1 pledge, http://www.ayea.org/aboutus.html

Anti-idling: calculate the CO₂ impact of your school buses, or look up your state’s laws,http://www.epa.gov/otaq or http://www.thehcf.org/antiidlingprimer.html

Fatal Light Awareness Project works to have city lights turned off, in part because they affect night-flying migrating birds, http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/NightLights.html

Northwest Sustainable Energy Association has information about green buildings and green schools, http://www.nesea.org/buildings

Bottled water-estimate how many bottles your town throws away, and look at the Pacifici Institute’shttp://www.pacinst.org/topics/water_and_sustainability/bottled_water/bottled_water_and_energy.html and take the pledge, http://c3.newdream.org

Eat locally, and the National Sustainable Agriculture Service tells you why, http://www.attra.ncat.org/farm_energy/food_miles.html

Looking for a green car? http://www.greenercars.org/highlights.htm

Learn about energy-saving appliances from the National Geographic’s The Green Guide,http://www.thegreenguide.com

Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts offer Climate Patch for doing something about climate change,http://www.thehcf.org/antiidlingprimer.html

Great ways to reduce carbon from the carbon from the Clean Water Action Council,

http://www.cwac.net/energy/energy_saving_tips.html

Atlantic Center & The Quebec Labrador Foundation create models of Earth stewardship,http://www.qlf.org

Chesapeake Climate Action Network, http://www.chesapeakeclimate.org

Kids Vs. Global Warming empowering youth to cool down the Earth, http://kids-vs-global-warming.com/about/

Government and You

U.S. Cities are taking steps, http://www.usmayors.org/climateprotection/about.htm

A government site especially for kids, http://epa.gov/climatechange/kids/index.html

Earth Observatory is NASA’s site for climate, geological, and space news, http://www.earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/Paleoclimatology_IceCores/

How to Reach Decisionmakers- action from Step It Up, http://www.stepitup2007.org

Meet the Scientists

Jim Hansen’s NASA website, http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1, The story of Jim Hansen’s work at NASA, http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/features/temptracker/

Meet Susan Solomon and see her Teacher’s Guide,http://www.chemheritage.org/EducationalServices/FACES/teacher/env/readings/solomon.htm

Endangered Species and the Center for Biodiversity, http://biologicaldiversity.org

Climate change in the Northeast U.S.: a scientific report, http://www.northeastclimateimpacts.org has graphics to visualize what your state’s climate could be.

Some Other Great Resources

“You need a thneed” says Dr. Seuss in The Lorax. A thneed is something you THINK you need but you don’t really need.

A River Ran Wild, written and illustrated by Lynne Cherry is a wonderful New England success story.

The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming by Laurie David and Cambria Gordon

Global Warming by Laurence Pringle

The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook by David de Rochschild includes the energy savings in buying local.

Teaching About Climate by Tim Grant and Gail Littlejohn, is a children’s book and teacher’s guide.

TREC is all about teachers and researchers exploring and collaborating, http://www.arcus.org/TREC

World Wildlife Fund’s website has 12 great suggestions, including information about compact fluorescent bulbs, http://www.worldwildlife.org/climate/involved/individuals.cfm

Create Your Future site has all kinds of ideas for improving the environment, like “Ways to Create an Eco-Friendly Lifestyle,” and “How to Create a City Without Automobiles”, http://www.kidsforfuture.net/index.php

New American Dream: live more simply and find time to do the things that connect you to friends, family, community and the world, http://www.newdream.org

How to answer the claims of a climate skeptic from World Wildlife Fund and Grist magazine,http://gristmill.grist.org/skeptics

Climate Change Education has many resources for teaching about climate change,

http://www.climatechangeeducation.org

The most valuable resource of all is your creativity, energy, and inventiveness! At some point everything was only an idea in the mind of some human being. Maybe you will be one of many people whose idea helps keep the Earth healthy.

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