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A Sampling of Schoolyard Habitat Web Sites

National Gardening Association has a wealth of information at www.kidsgardening.com.

Contains a school garden registry, KidsGarden news and activities, classroom success

stories, online teachers course, frequently asked questions.

The National Wildlife Federation sponsors a Schoolyard Habitats program at

www.nwf.org/schoolyard Site provides resources, free e-mail newsletter, and basic tips on creating habitat.

The Evergreen Foundation is a Canadian web site at www.evergreen.ca/en On the home page click on

Learning Grounds, which takes you to a page of links for curriculum connections, resources and a Teachers

Corner that provides access to a database of lesson plans and more tips about outdoor classrooms.

Schoolyard Habitat Project Guide, a downloadable publication from the U. S. Fish & Wildlife Services

Chesapeake Bay Field Office, at www.fws.gov/chesapeakebay/ (click on Schoolyard Habitat on home page).

American Horticultural Societywww.ahs.org Click on Youth Gardening for resources, Q&A, articles

about plant-based learning, and a database of childrens gardens. The AHS also hosts an annual symposium.

Garden-Based Learning at Cornell Universitys Department of Horticulture provides a model for creating aChildrens Garden Consultant program, whereby youth participants compare a wide variety of childrens

gardens, at www.hort.cornell.edu/gbl The site also includes lesson plans and publications.

Schoolgrounds Transformation, a project of the Canadian Biodiversity Institute which offers guidance on

how to plan an outdoor classroom, at http://www.schoolgrounds.ca/schoolgrounds/home.html

Learning Through Landscapeswww.ltl.org.uk/ The schoolyard movement began in the UK in 1990.

Boston Schoolyard Initiativewww.schoolyards.org/ lists success stories and models how this city supports

schoolyard projects throughout the design and development process.

School Garden Wizard, a project of the Chicago Botanic Garden, provides step-by-step guidelines for

planning and creating school gardens for plant-based learning, at www.gardenwizard.org

Project WILD www.projectwild.org Under Curriculum & Resources click on WILD School Sites, where

you can order theExploring School Nature Areas video.

Visit these VIRGINIA SCHOOLS web sites to see how they use their outdoor classroom:

Christiansburg Elementarywww.mcps.org/ces/(click on SOL Links, then Cathy Neys link at bottomof page for teaching and learning, and then WildlifeMapping to see their Garden Project)

Waddell Elementarywww.rootsnshoots.info Tuckahoe Elementarywww.apsva.us/tuckahoe/site/default.asp (click on Discovery Schoolyard) Greenbrier Intermediatehttp://eclipse.cps.k12.va.us/Schools/GRI/schoolyard_habitats_site.htm St. Paul High Schoolwww.estonoa.org (Wetlands Estonoa Learning Center) Strasburg High School www.shenandoah.k12.va.us/shs/ (Strasburg FFA" then "River's Edge Project")

MORE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION RESOURCES: EE-Linkhttp://eelink.net/;

SEERwww.seer.org (using the Environment as an Integrating Context, or the EIC model);

Virginia Naturallywww.vanaturally.com ; or Classroom Earth www.classroomearth.org

Virginia WILD School Sites (C. Heiser; updated 1/3/08)

http://www.garden.org/http://www.nwf.org/schoolyardhttp://www.evergreen.ca/enhttp://www.fws.gov/chesapeakebay/http://www.ahs.org/http://www.hort.cornell.edu/gblhttp://www.schoolgrounds.ca/schoolgrounds/home.htmlhttp://www.ltl.org.uk/http://www.schoolyards.org/http://www.gardenwizard.org/http://www.projectwild.org/http://www.mcps.org/ces/http://www.rootsnshoots.info/http://www.apsva.us/tuckahoe/site/default.asphttp://eclipse.cps.k12.va.us/Schools/GRI/schoolyard_habitats_site.htmhttp://www.estonoa.org/http://www.shenandoah.k12.va.us/shs/http://eelink.net/http://www.seer.org/http://www.vanaturally.com/http://www.classroomearth.org/http://www.classroomearth.org/http://www.vanaturally.com/http://www.seer.org/http://eelink.net/http://www.shenandoah.k12.va.us/shs/http://www.estonoa.org/http://eclipse.cps.k12.va.us/Schools/GRI/schoolyard_habitats_site.htmhttp://www.apsva.us/tuckahoe/site/default.asphttp://www.rootsnshoots.info/http://www.mcps.org/ces/http://www.projectwild.org/http://www.gardenwizard.org/http://www.schoolyards.org/http://www.ltl.org.uk/http://www.schoolgrounds.ca/schoolgrounds/home.htmlhttp://www.hort.cornell.edu/gblhttp://www.ahs.org/http://www.fws.gov/chesapeakebay/http://www.evergreen.ca/enhttp://www.nwf.org/schoolyardhttp://www.garden.org/