Resource Library
BOOKS
Adopted by an Owl: The True Story of Jackson the Owl: The heartwarming
story of the relationship that forms between a man and the owl he rescues.
The Penguin Atlas of Endangered Species: A great guide that traces the
movement of endangered animals and plants across the continents as they slowly
disappear.
Goose’s Story: A true story about a one-footed goose whose courage
and determination helped it adapt and survive in the wild.
Lewis & Clark for Kids: 21 great activities bring the journey of
Lewis & Clark to life.
Friendships in Nature: Find out about the fascinating relationships between living things and how they rely on each other for survival.
CD-ROMS
Our Birds- Nebraska & Hawks, Eagles & Owls: Using photos, songs
and maps, you’ll learn about 60 hawks, eagles and owls of North America
and 270 birds found in Nebraska.
The Diversity of Animal Sounds: Animals and their calls will come alive when you experience this CD.
ACTIVITY GUIDES
Snips & Snails & Walnut Whales: Art projects that will help your students explore the relationship between natural things and the created object.
Good Earth Art: Over 200 practical, easy and open-ended art experiences provide a wealth of activities.
Nature Scope-Wild & Crafty: More than a dozen fun-to-make nature related crafts.
Nature Printing with Herbs, Fruits, Flowers: The art of applying ink or paint to plant materials to press life-sized images onto paper or fabric.
RESOURCE BOOKS
How Birds Fly: Describes field studies of birds in flight, from the lightning-fast falcon to the soaring pace of an eagle or frenetic flight of a hummingbird.
How Birds Migrate: Explains the basics of flight, effects of weather and geographical barriers, and different flight and navigational strategies.
Eyewitness Bird: A close-up look at birds - their evolution, structure, flight adaptations, nests and eggs.
ACTIVITY GUIDES
Birdwise: Fascinating facts and amazing activities to make you bird wise.
Ornithology: Brimming with adventures, projects and ideas for exploring the world of birds.
Nature Scope - Birds, Birds, Birds: Includes extensive background information followed by creative science activities and reproducible pages with games, puzzles, art and craft activities, creative writing projects, science experiments and curriculum tie-ins. Grades K-8.
VIDEOS
Eyewitness - Bird: Stunning photographs depict the diversity of bird life. Explores both facts and folklore.
Junior Zoologist - Birds: Discusses the things that make birds special; their nests, habits, history and how their beaks, feet and wings are adapted to their needs. Grades 1-4
Audubon's Animal Adventures - Eagle: For thousands of years they flourished. Now they struggle to survive in the lower 48 states. Discover how these majestic birds live and what efforts are underway to protect them.
Crane River: Features the Sandhill Crane; their biology, habits and dependence on the Platte River in Nebraska as a major stop during their cross-continent migration.
RESOURCE BOOKS
Tree Life: A Close Up Look: An entire ecology flourishes in and around trees as dramatically displayed in this colorful and informative book.
Identify Trees & Shrubs by Their Leaves: A dichotomous key to trees and shrubs native to the northeast.
Usborne First Nature-Trees: Colorful pictures accompanied by interesting facts and information about trees and their associated characteristics. Lower elementary.
Forest Life-A Close Up Look: From colorful flowers to singing birds, forests are depicted as fascinating places to visit.
1001 Questions Answered About Trees: Information and data that can be integrated into quiz games, lessons and outdoor activities involving the life and lore of trees.
A Walk in the Woods: Nebraskland Magazine's book about trees and forests in Nebraska
America's Prairies: Descriptions of the plants and animals of tallgrass, shortgrass and mixed prairies of North America.
Save Our Prairies & Grasslands: A journey through the prairies and grasslands of the United States with a close-up look at the plants and animals that make them unique.
Geography Detective Grasslands: Discusses how grasslands have been altered and presents ideas for developing a positive, sustainable future for grassland ecosystems.
ACTIVITY GUIDES
The Tree Almanac: A year-round activity guide that includes practical how-to advice, balanced discussions of forest resources and people, and a useful glossary of plant families.
Nature Scope-Trees are Terrific: Includes extensive background information followed by creative science activities and reproducible pages with games, puzzles, art and craft activities, creative writing projects, science experiments and curriculum tie-ins. Grades K-8.
Exploring the Secrets of the Meadow Thicket: Cooperative learning activities that are readily adapted to local parks, fields, lawns, or lots.
Botany for All Ages: Activities cover a range of botanical subjects, including the parts of plants, general horticulture requirements, and plants as they relate to humans, animals, and their general environment.
Grow Lab-Activities for Growing Minds: Ideas and activities for the development of successful youth garden projects. Explorations encourage observation and record keeping.
Exploring the Forest with Grandforest Tree: Children are invited to step into the forest, either a real outdoor one or a forest that they create indoors. Ages 5-10.
Habitats: Making Homes for Animals & Plants: Easily created mini-habitats for the temporary observation of a wide range of insects, aquatic life, small animals and plants.
One Small Square Woods: Explore hollow logs, butterflies "twigs" that walk, bite marks on a leaf, and other clues to life in the woods.
VIDEOS
It's Arbor Day Charlie Brown: The Peanut's gang reveals the importance of Arbor Day and the personal satisfaction that comes with planting trees.
Man of the Trees: The story of Richard St. Barbe Baker
The Lorax: Dr. Suess classic regarding habitat preservation and biodiversity.
You Can't Grow Home Again: On site in a Costa Rican rain forest where you'll meet some of the animals that live there and find out what's being done to save rain forests.
The Importance of Plants to Our World: Explore the origin of basic foods and discover that clothes, shoes, fuel and furniture all come from plants. Grades 1-4.
RESOURCE BOOKS
America's Prairies: Describes the plants and animals of tallgrass, shortgrass and mixed prairies of North America.
Save Our Prairies & Grasslands: A journey through the prairies and grasslands of the United States with a close-up look at the plants and animals that make them unique.
Eyewitness-Seashore: Discover close-up the ecology of the plants and animals that inhabit the coastlines of our world.
ACTIVITY GUIDES
Nature Scope Activity Guides: Three separate topics. All include extensive
background information followed by creative science activities and reproducible
pages with games, puzzles, art and craft activities, creative writing projects,
science experiments and curriculum tie-ins. Grades K-8.
Scientific Encounters of the Mysterious Sea: Reading activities that explore the mysterious creatures of the deep blue sea.
VIDEOS
Eyewitness-Jungle: Demonstrates why rain forests harbor the greatest concentration of life in the world, both in terms of numbers and diversity.
Eyewitness-Ocean: Face to face encounters with some of the most bizarre creatures on earth.
Eyewitness-Desert: Visit some of the Earth's most parched habitats and find some of the greatest stories of adaptation and survival on the planet.
RESOURCE BOOKS
Atlas of Endangered Animals: Introduces readers to the varied problems that threaten the natural balance generally, and goes on from there to explore the threats to animal life around the globe, region by region.
Nebraska's Vanishing Species: Nebraskaland Magazine publication that provides a wealth of information on endangered habitats and species in Nebraska.
ACTIVITY GUIDES
Scientific Encounters of the Endangered Kind: Reading activities that explore nature's endangered species. A comprehension skills check and a related activity page follow each selection. Grades 4-7.
Who's Endangered on Noah's Ark: This tapestry of animal folklore, scientific information, news articles, classroom activities, bibliographies, and stunning wildlife illustrations will provide the K-12 classroom with a captivating introduction to conservation.
Nature Scope - Endangered Species Wild & Rare: Includes extensive background information followed by creative science activities and reproducible pages with games, puzzles, art and craft activities, creative writing projects, science experiments and curriculum tie-ins. Grades K-8.
Discovering Endangered Species: Fun and stimulating activities designed to develop an awareness of biological diversity, values of habitats, habitat loss, and ways you can help.
VIDEOS
Galapagos - My Fragile World: An extraordinary journey to a magical, almost prehistoric, world where exotic beauty and unique wildlife are uncovered.
Where Have All the Animals Gone?: Designed to help students understand the concepts of endangered and extinct species. Covers concepts related to food webs, habitat loss, poaching, and human population growth. Grades 4-8.
Going, Going, Almost Gone: Presents the plight of endangered species and their connection to other organisms and to the habitats they're part of. Includes activity guide.
CD-ROM
Encyclopedia of U.S. Endangered Species: A wealth of facts, figures and general information about endangered species in the United States. (Mac/Windows Compatible)
ACTIVITY GUIDES
Nature Scope: Pollution Problems & Solutions: Includes extensive background information followed by creative science activities and reproducible pages with games, puzzles, art and craft activities, creative writing projects, science experiments and curriculum tie-ins. Grades K-8.
VIDEOS
Down the Drain: Takes a close look at something that's easy to take for granted - water. Covers water sources and the causes of water pollution.
Someone's Gonna Use it After You: Designed to instill a sense of responsibility in the viewer to take care of our water, land, and air resources. Grades 3-6
Acid Rain-A North American Challenge: Looks at the cause and effects of acid rain in our environment.
Ozone: Double Trouble: Identifies the sources of this common pollutant and looks at the impact it has on humans and nature.
The Environment Series: Young detectives teach the viewer how the ecosystem
works, and the importance of each element in the environment. (Grades 2-5)
RESOURCE BOOKS
How Nature Works: Exceptional photographs and diagrams introduce you to experiments and projects designed to figure out the answers to intriguing questions about the natural world.
The Curious Naturalist: A handbook of crafts, games, activities and ideas for teaching children about the magical world of nature. Arranged by seasons and includes excellent references.
ACTIVITY GUIDES
Learning Under the Sun: A series of science discovery labs involving common plants, animals and environmental issues. They can be easily completed in one class period or extended over several days and are arranged according to seasons. Grades 5-12.
Hands On Nature: Easy to develop field and classroom activities that incorporate a multi-disciplinary approach, linking science with the visual and performing arts. Grades K-6.
The Nature Specialist: Over 70 fun outdoor activities, all indexed according to type, age appropriateness, and degree of leader preparation necessary.
Ecology Discovery Activity Kit: Unique collection of 49 high-interest, hands-on activities for students in grades 4-8. Designed to help you teach important ecology concepts and science process skills.
Environmental Science Activities: Ready to use lessons, labs and workshops for grades 7-12. Focus areas include land, wildlife, water, atmosphere, energy and human issues.
Ecology Green Pages: Information and fact sheets on topics ranging from endangered species to pollution and recycling.
175 Amazing Nature Experiments: Easy to prepare yet highly instructive investigations for ages 6-12. Includes sections on How Things Grow; Minibeasts; Trees and Leaves; and The Seasons.
Education Goes Outdoors: Learning experiences for outside the classroom that incorporate the natural environment into math, language arts, social studies, science and the human community.
Water, Stones & Fossil Bones: Earth science activities for elementary and middle level grades.
Investigating Nature Through Outdoor Projects: Simple activities and projects that encourage young naturalists to explore their own backyard and local environment.
Discovering Nature Close to Home: Activities designed to help you discover the plants and animals of urban trees, open fields and vacant lots.
Beyond the Classroom: Field trip explorations of school grounds and backyards that require neither special equipment nor buses.
Scientific Encounters of the Curious Kind: Reading activities that explore nature's most intriguing life forms. A comprehension skills check and a related activity page follow each selection. Grades 4-7.
Bottle Biology: Explore science and the environment using plastic soda bottles and other recyclable materials. Twenty projects for all levels, K-12.
Stop, Look and Learn About Our Natural World: Easy and practical environmental education activities with Nebraska adaptations. Grades K-6.
Science Teachers Almanac: Science activities and background information for every month of the school year. Includes reproducible activity sheets, monthly and weekly calendars, and useful appendixes.
Earth Child: Games, stories, activities and ideas about living lightly on planet Earth.
Project Seasons: Using the seasons this book integrates science, agriculture and environmental science themes into hands-on activities for elementary students.
Environmental Science Activities Kit: A collection of lessons and lab exercises suitable for Earth, Life or Physical Science classes. Topics cover issues ranging from land use to wildlife, water and air. Grades 6-12.
Explorations in Backyard Biology, Drawing on Nature in the Classroom:
While developing their drawing and writing skills, students record their observations
and experiences in a naturalist's notebook.
CD-ROM
The World of Nature: Through colorful maps, diagrams, and pictures, learn about animal's natural habitats, from the arid desert to the polar ice caps. Grades 3-8. (Mac Compatible)
Eyewitness Encyclopedia of Nature: A highly visual, interactive encyclopedia that explores the fascinating lives of hundreds of species of animals and plants and the habitats in which they live. (IBM/Windows Compatible)
Earth's Natural Resources: Interactive program introduces students to natural resources; what they are, where they are found, how they are used, and how we can protect them for the future. (Mac/Windows Compatible)
RESOURCE BOOKS
The Butterfly Book: The complete guide to butterfly gardening, identification and behavior.
Butterfly Gardening: Provides the inspiration as well as the practical information necessary to create handsome, imaginative gardens designed to attract butterflies.
Butterflies Abound: A teacher resource book for a theme study about butterflies. Students engage in learning experiences in various curriculum areas.
The Practical Entomologist: Provides information on the basics of entomology. Complete with over 200 photos portraying several different insect groups.
Do Bees Sneeze?: This fascinating book answers more than 200 questions asked by elementary students. It's entertaining, technically accurate and full of activities for further investigations.
ACTIVITY GUIDES
Scientific Encounters of the Insect World: Reading activities that explore nature's fascinating insects. A comprehension skills check and a related activity page follow each selection. Grades 4-7.
The Insect Almanac: A year-round activity guide full of information and ideas to help you meet all the tiny creatures that share your backyard.
Nature Scope - Incredible Insects: Includes extensive background information followed by creative science activities and reproducible pages with games, puzzles, art and craft activities, creative writing projects, science experiments and curriculum tie-ins. Grades K-8.
Bugwise: Fascinating facts and amazing activities to make you bug wise.
Entomology: Thirty chapters of experiments, investigations, discoveries and color photos detailing the fascinating world of insects.
Pet Bugs: Teaches you how to collect, house, feed, study and release invertebrates.
Adventures With Insects: Hands-on adventures and interesting stories about remarkable insects.
Creepy Crawlies & the Scientific Method: Over 100 hands-on science experiments to introduce students to anthropods and the science methods.
The Butterfly Book: A kid's guide to attracting butterflies as well as techniques for observing and raising them from eggs or caterpillars.
VIDEOS
Audubon Society's Butterflies for Beginners: An informative and easy-to-understand introduction to butterfly biology, and up-close looks at 32 of the most common and wide-ranging North American butterflies.
Attracting Butterflies to Your Yard: Learn from experts about the plants and flowers irresistible to butterflies and tour some of the premier butterfly gardens across America.
Eyewitness Insects: A close-up look at the incredible diversity, beauty and drama presented by this amazing group of invertebrates.
See How They Grow - Insects & Spiders: See how plants provide the secret world that insects and spiders need to hatch, find food and survive to young adulthood. Ages 2 and up.
ACTIVITY GUIDES
Keepers of the Earth: A fine collection of Native American stories and inspirational, interdisciplinary hands-on activities.
Keepers of the Animals: Twenty-four stories teach children about Native American culture, wildlife ecology and environmental issues.
Keepers of Life: Blends traditional scientific methodologies with Native American cultural perspectives in the study of botany, plant ecology and natural history.
Keepers of the Night: Native American stories are coupled with activities focusing on stargazing, nighttime weather, nocturnal animals, sensory awareness games and campfire activities.
RESOURCE BOOKS
Pond Life: A close-up look at the natural world of a pond. Features spectacular photographs and intriguing text.
One Small Square Pond: Based on the biological study of quadrants, readers will learn how to build an underwater observation viewer, study microscopic aquatic life, document seasonal changes or create your own pond.
Eyewitness Books: Pond and River: Excellent photographs, drawings, and
text give a close-up look at the plant and animal life of aquatic habitats.
Save Our Wetlands: Explores the wide variety of wetlands and how they and other habitats are connected.
Wetlands: Explains their function and their value to the natural world.
Squishy, Misty, Damp & Muddy: Introduces young readers to the many kinds of wetlands and the wide variety of life they support.
Pond & Brook: A reference guide to nature in freshwater environments. Sections on the ecology of still (pond) and flowing (brook) waters. Also discusses contemporary wetland issues.
Webs of Life, Pond: Highlights pond plant and animal life cycles as they change with the seasons.
America's Wetlands: Describes the incredible variety of plants and animals that live in wetlands.
Through the Looking Glass-A Field Guide to Aquatic Plants: Contains sketches and complete descriptions of many common North American aquatic plants.
ACTIVITY GUIDES
Discover Wetlands: A collection of information and activities that focus on wetlands. Grades 4-8
Project W.U.L.P.-Wetland Understanding Leading to Protection: A comprehensive, multidisciplinary, progressive wetland unit for middle schools.
WOW-The Wonder of Wetlands: Multidisciplinary curriculum and activity guide with over 40 hands-on activities for grades K-12. Includes excellent background information and appendices.
Nature Scope: Wading Into Wetlands: Includes extensive background information followed by creative science activities and reproducible pages with games, puzzles, art and craft activities, creative writing projects, science experiments and curriculum tie-ins. Grades K-8.
Adventures with Freshwater Animals: Learn how to find, observe, and identify the diverse denizens of stream, pond, and puddle.
Pond & Stream Safari-Ecology of Aquatic Invertebrates: Includes comprehensive project manual, reference guide, activity cards with superb graphics, work sheets and a checklist for recording data. Grades 4-9.
Aquatic Habitats: Activities teach students how to create aquatic habitats, raise tubifex worms and water snails, fish, mosquito larvae and go on aquatic field trips. Covers concepts of habitat, food web, life cycle, adaptation, interdependence, behavior, biological control and the environment. Grades 2-6.
VIDEOS
Our Wonderful Wetlands: Explores three different wetland environments; bogs, swamps and marshes. Discusses some of the specialized adaptations that species living in them exhibit.
Conserving America-The Wetlands: Meet the ordinary people who are waging extraordinary campaigns to save the richest and least understood of America's landscapes - its swamps and marshes.
The Wealth in Wetlands: Personal visits to the farms of five landowners
who believe there is a place for wetlands on their land. Looks at wetland conservation
and restoration methods.
Last of the Rainwater Basins: An in depth look at the characteristics, plants and wildlife of the wetlands in central Nebraska.
Discover the Rainwater Basin: Discover the beauty and uniqueness of the central Nebraska wetlands.
A World in Our Backyard: Suggests ways of studying wetland characteristics, why wetlands are important, and how students and teachers can help to protect a local wetland resource.
Wetland Wildlife: Encounter the wild creatures that inhabit wetland environments.
Crane River: The story of the magnificent migrations of sandhill cranes and their dependence on the Platte River and associated wetlands in Nebraska.
Eyewitness Pond & River: Travel down the great rivers of the world with side trips into pond environments where strange and wonderful creatures are depicted. Creates a deeper understanding of the role ponds and rivers play on this water-based planet.
Eyewitness Fish: Dive into the water and discover some of nature's most exotic creatures. Find out how they are adapted to survival in their watery world.
Grandpa, Can We Go Fishing?: Learn the basics of fishing while discovering important information about fish habitat and biology.
CD-ROM
The Wetlands Explorer: An interactive look at freshwater habitats and organisms. (Mac/Windows Compatible)
ACTIVITY GUIDES
Waste Away: Information and activities for investigating trash problems and solutions. Upper elementary and junior high students.
Let's Reduce & Recycle: A series of activities intended to increase student's awareness of the impacts of garbage on the environment, and to teach them about waste prevention and recycling techniques. Grades K-12.
Kids C.A.R.E.-Activities to Reduce Solid Waste: Reproducible work sheets focusing on solid waste issues and personal action. Grades 4-6.
Understanding Garbage and Our Environment: Investigates solid waste solutions such as recycling, composting and source reduction while exploring management and engineering issues at classroom "town meetings." Grades 5-8.
Revise, Recycle and Recover: Students address resource issues, explore recycling technologies, and develop models for recovering resources in new, creative, cost effective ways.
Earth Book for Kids: Fascinating facts and creative ideas for activities to help kids become better acquainted with their environment and learn to care for the earth.
Worms Eat Our Garbage: Exciting, classroom activities that utilize worms for lessons on habitat, composting and solid waste issues.
50 Simple Things Kids Can Do To Save the Earth: Ideas for empowering kids to do their part to protect natural resources.
The Recycler's Handbook: Practical ideas for recycling everything from paper to plastic and tires to toxins.
How to Make Our World A Better Place: Specific actions that you can take that will make a difference, from recycling tips and conservation techniques to ideas on where you can invest your money so it will do the most good.
VIDEOS
The Rotten Truth: A look at solid waste issues including landfills, incineration, recycling and packaging.
The Garbage Story: Introduces viewers to the huge amounts of garbage, or "municipal solid waste" our society produces. It describes what our garbage is composed of and the role landfills, incineration and composting play in modern waste disposal programs. Grades 5-12.
The Lost Book Report Caper: Young detectives learn that trash disposal is a vital element in our environment. Teaches an important lesson in waste disposal and its effect on our environment and way of life. Grades 2-5.
RESOURCE BOOKS
Town Life: A safari through the urban landscape. Readers become explorers of the environment, both inside the home and out, and examine how all life adapts to it.
Your Wild Neighborhood: This exciting guide takes you on an exploration of nature in your neighborhood where you'll find both familiar and strange neighbors.
Activity Guides
City Science: Shows you how to carry out meaningful investigations in earth, life, physical, environmental, and survey sciences using materials found just outside your city or suburban door. Grades 3-6.
Sidewalk Field Trips: Adventures designed to take the basic science
concepts beyond the textbook and outside to the sidewalk, vacant lot, local
park, or other community area. Grades 5-6.
Schoolground Science: Discover the natural phenomena taking place in your schoolyard with these easy to do activities and experiments. Grades K-8.
City Kids & City Critters: Activities for teaching children in populated areas about the value of protecting wildlife habitats.
VIDEOS
Wild In the City: Easy to create fragrant, colorful wildlife habitats so songbirds, hummingbirds, butterflies and others will find your yard irresistible.
Attracting Butterflies to Your Backyard: Learn from experts about the plants and flowers irresistible to butterflies and tour some of the premier butterfly gardens across America.
Life In the City Habitat: Discover some of the wildlife that lives in the city. Animals such as chimney swifts, squirrels, mice, bats and others share the urban habitat with people.
RESOURCE BOOKS
Flat Water - A History of Nebraska & It's Water: From the early 1900s to the present this book gives a pictorial of the state and this empowering natural resource.
Water Up, Water Down: Follows the path of water from initial cloud formation through the hydrological cycle. Superb use of color plates.
Clean Water, A Citizens Guide to Water Quality: Techniques and principles of water quality monitoring.
Drinking Water: Easy to understand, clear answers to over 100 questions about the water you drink.
Our Endangered Planet-Groundwater: Management, pollution and depletion of the water beneath the earth.
How to Get Water Smart: Water saving products and practices for your home, school and office.
ACTIVITY GUIDES
Hands on Save Our Streams: Interdisciplinary approach blends water quality monitoring with sociology, planning, government and history. Grades 1-12.
The Indoor River Book: Involve students in the community as they create a working model of their watershed. Includes related activities for science, social studies, language arts, creative arts and technology. Grades 4-8.
Field Manual for Water Quality Monitoring: Incorporating data collection and problem solving this manual provides background information and procedures for monitoring surface water and identifying relevant issues concerning quality and quantity of the resource.
Water Magic: An innovative teacher's resource full of educational and lively water activities for grades K-3.
Water Activities to Encourage Responsibility: Covers a range of topics including geology, contaminants, nutrients, human impact and government's role.
Groundwater-A Vital Resource: A wide selection of activities under the topics of the water cycle, distribution in soil, quality, and community impacts.
Two H's and an O: Integrated activities designed to provide learners with experiences in the hydrological cycle and to explore the human interaction with that cycle.
Earth, The Water Planet: Investigate how water shapes our planet.
Experiment With Water: Simple and fun experiments for raising awareness of how life revolves around water. Grades 1-5.
Water, Stones & Fossil Bones: Earth science activities for elementary and middle level grades.
River Cutters: Students construct a model watershed and demonstrate the concepts of erosion, geological sequencing, watershed concepts and human effects. Grades 6-9.
Water Science: A collection of easy, unique, and creative water-related science projects.
All the Rivers Run: A comprehensive model for the study of watersheds.
The Water Sourcebook: Provides a thorough introduction to water topics
including drinking and wastewater treatment, surface water resources, ground
water systems, wetlands and coastal waters. Detailed information, charts, and
activities provide a wealth of information about water. The series is divided
into four age appropriate volumes.
VIDEOS
The Adventures of Ethel Mermaid and Tad Pole: They're explorers. Investigators. Amphibians. Ethel Mermaid and Tad Pole live in Ezra Pond, but their adventures take them around the globe. In this five-part series, students learn and laugh along with this splashy duo as they set out to discover everything they can about water. Grades 4-6.
The Hydrological Cycle: Water storage, evaporation, cloud storage, transpiration, and precipitation.
Water Treatment: The elements of water treatment, from pretreatment through distribution.
Source to Tap: Follow a water drop from its source to the tap and learn how safe drinking water is delivered to people's homes.
Source Water Protection: Shows how different types of pollution can impact drinking water supplies.
Fun Facts About Water Conservation: Tap into your knowledge about water with this guessing game that covers everything from dinosaurs to dishwashers.
Water-Gift of Life: Nature Company production combines breathtaking video, original musical score, and eloquent narration in this exploration of water in its myriad forms.
What Do You Know About H2O?: Find out the answers to all your questions
about this precious natural resource.
The Hydrologic Cycle: Water in Motion: Live action video and computer graphics demonstrate how water moves through the hydrologic cycle. Discover how natural events affect evaporation, condensation, precipitation, runoff, and storage. Grades 6-12.
Waterhog Haven: When no one practices water conservation, time and water run out. A comic cautionary tale. Grades 4-9.
The River of Life: Examines the world of fresh water and the effects of various pollutants on living things. Grades 6-12.
The Water Cycle: Dramatically presents water; its commonness, importance and uses. The abundance of water, but the relative scarcity of usable water, is emphasized. The water cycle, its efficiency and importance are presented. Grades 5-9.
Earth Aid: Water Conservation: Demonstrates a wealth of innovative tips on water conservation that cost us nothing but can save up to 50% of the water each of us uses.
Down the Drain: Takes a close look at something that's easy to take
for granted - water.
Covers water sources, use and protection measures.
Holmes Lake Watershed: Looks at the effects of land use and nonpoint source pollution on the water quality of Holmes Lake in Lincoln. Outlines current efforts to protect the lake.
The Case of the Mysterious Neighbor: Young detectives discover the importance of water conservation and suggest several common-sense ways to save water.
CD-ROM
Adventures with Olso: World of Water: Interactive, fast-paced game with plenty of surprises and comical characters that will take you on an adventure into the world of water. (Mac/Windows Compatible)
Desdemona's Splash!: Runoff from the Farm, the Neighborhood, and the City can pollute streams, lakes, rivers, and wetlands. In this game it's your job to keep the lake clean. Your choices will make a difference. (Mac/Windows Compatible)
RESOURCE BOOKS
One Small Square Backyard: An array of biological diversity can be found in even the smallest patch of turf or "weeds". Activities provide hands-on introduction to "nature at your doorstep."
The Backyard Naturalists: Information and ideas for creating a haven for animals as well as people.
Eyewitness - Dinosaur: Discover the world of dinosaurs - their behavior, habitats, and the mystery of their sudden disappearance.
America's Neighborhood Bats: Defines the ecological role of bats and their importance to the environment. Useful information on bat behavior and species identification.
Animal Homes: See, explore and discover how animal homes are constructed and how they work, from the inside out.
Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States: Descriptions
of 20 different habitats including geological and ecological histories, special
features and wildlife profiles.
ACTIVITY GUIDES
Basic Projects in Wildlife Watching: Easy to do projects designed to increase your enjoyment and proficiency in wildlife watching.
Habitats: Making Homes for Animals & Plants: Easily created mini-habitats for the temporary observation of a wide range of insects, aquatic life, small animals and plants.
Wild About Elk: A Project Wild Educator's Guide that provides a summary of the biology and ecology of elk. Includes student activities.
Nature Scope Activity Guides: Three separate topics. All include extensive
background information followed by creative science activities and reproducible
pages with games, puzzles, art and craft activities, creative writing projects,
science experiments and curriculum tie-ins. Grades K-8.
VIDEOS
Landscaping For Wildlife: How to create wildlife habitat in any yard. Specific ways to give food, water and cover for wild species.
A Home for Pearl: Students learn about wildlife habitats as they take on the challenge of finding a wild home for a rehabilitated bald eagle. Includes several familiar wildlife species.
Creature Features: A series of seven 5-minute programs that focus on the delicate balance of ecosystems. Concepts include interdependence of life forms, animal habitats and communities, adaptation and human intervention.
A World Alive: Profiles the myriad of creatures of the planet, their
activities and interactions.
Prairie Wildlife: Discover the vast array of wildlife, mammals, reptiles,
birds, and insects that make the prairie their home.
Wetland Wildlife: Encounter the wild creatures that inhabit wetland environments.
Bats the True Story: Portrays bats in their beneficial roles as essential pollinators and insect control agents.
Audubon's Animal Adventures: Students are fascinated as they learn what
it's like to run with wolves, soar with eagles or sonar with bats in these exciting,
educational programs. Each video covers the natural history, biology and preservation
programs for the selected species. Three separate, 30-minute episodes.
Eyewitness Videos: Utilizing spectacular footage and dramatic photography
these videos provide a close-up look at the biology and characteristics of selected
animal groups. Six different titles, perfect for all ages.
Life Habitat Science Series: Discovering different ecological habitats.
(Grades K-3)
Junior Zoologist Series: An introduction to the animal kingdom. Covers
life cycles, adaptations, unique characteristics and associated terminology.
(Grades 1-4)
