
Some Cool Links For School Sponsored Science Projects
- EnviroNet-
a collection of some excellent on-line school sponsored science projects and project
opportunities
(http://whale.simmons.edu/EnviroNet.html)
- EPA HomePage - excellent student/teacher information
regarding resources for environmental projects
(http://www.epa.gov/)
- EPA Watershed Home Page - Use a clickable
map of the United States to surf for your local watershed, register your watershed
project.
(http://www.epa.gov/surf/)
- Water Quality and Land Treatment Assessment
Pages - evaluation of key abiotic factors influencing productivity of aquatic
habitats
- Watershed
Exemplar - project sponsored by Santa Cruz Department of education working toward
protection and monitoring of local creeks and streams (http://www.santacruz.k12.ca.us/~jpost/projects/Watershed/watershed.html)
- CWPI
- California Watershed Projects Inventory; lists and attempts to organize state wide
watershed project information (http://ice.ucdavis.edu/California_Watershed_Projects_Inventory/about_CWPI.html)
- MBReEf
- Monterey Bay Watershed project; K-12 watershed monitoring project sponsored by
department of education (http://www.santacruz.k12.ca.us/~jpost/projects/Watershed/mbwat1.html)
- Water Pollution
- a list of Internet addresses with information regarding specific types of water
pollution, listed alphabetically (http://www.loc.gov/lexico/liv/w/Water_pollution.html)
- Monday Creek
Restoration Project - project started in 1994 to restore a local creek to fishable
conditions (http://www.ilgard.ohiou.edu/projects/monday-creek.html)
- COVIS - learning through collaborative
visualization
(http://www.covis.nwu.edu/)
- Think Quest - contest for educators
developing web pages
(http://io.advanced.org/thinkquest/)
- Bureau of Land Management
- Interesting look at some species of plants that pose a threat to natural environments
(http://www.blm.gov/education/weed/weed.html)
- Global School Net - a resoource of school sponsored
Internet activities
(http://www.gsn.org/)
- Maya Quest - participate in
exploring the land of the Maya via the Internet
(http://www.mecc.com/mayaquest.html)
- International Wolf Center - participate in
wolf population studies via the Internet
(http://www.wolf.org/)
- Journey North - participate
in Monarch Butterfly population studies via the Internet
(http://www.ties.k12.mn.us/~jnorth/)
- Running the Nile
- participate in a Kayak adventure down the Nile via the Internet
(http://www.adventureonline.com/nile/index.html)
- Eco-Adventures -
online adventures in Belize, Costa Rica, and Ecuador
(http://www.adventureonline.com/eco/index.html)
- Educational Technology -
use the Internet to learn about the latest in educational technology
(http://www.fwl.org/edtech/welcome.html)
- Environment
and Nature - Yahoo's list of on-line environmental resources (http://www.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Environment_and_Nature/Online_Resources/)
- Classroom resources for Environmental
Education - a gopher site with environmental education resource materials (gopher://nceet.snre.umich.edu/11/classres)
- Busy Teachers Web Site (K-12)
- Resources listed by subject area
(http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/BusyT/)
- National Fish & Wildlife Foundation -
information about native, endangered, and exotic species
(http://www.nfwf.org/)
- Lower Wheeling Creek
- Student Based Water Quality Study
(http://cotf.edu/ETE/scen/waterq/wqline.html)
- Stream Team
Project - Prince George's County Maryland
(http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/stream_team/stream_team.html)
- Crooked
River Project - Northeast Ohio
(http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/Other_Groups/K-12/fenlewis/Cuyahoga_River.html)
- Stream
Research Project - Calloway County Schools, Kentucky
(http://www.state.ky.us/agencies/nrepc/water/sip/cchs/10cchs.htm)
- San Francisco's Estuarine
Institute - (SFEI)
(http://jaguar.sfei.org/rip_proto/index.html)
- Stream Health - determined
by on-line macro invertebrate test
(http://www.state.ky.us:80/nrepc/water/vm.htm)
- On-line macroinvertebrate
classification key.
(http://monticello.avenue.gen.va.us/Community/Environ/EnvironEdCenter/Habitat/StreamStudy/Key/Key1.HTML)
- Ohio's Scenic Rivers
Stream Quality Monitoring Project.
(http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/odnr/dnap/sqm.html)
- Volunteer Water Quality
Monitoring Projects On-Line
(http://www.state.ky.us:80/nrepc/water/vm.htm)
- Illinois River Watch Critical
Trends Assesment (CTAP)
(http://dnr.state.il.us/river/intro.htm)
- Ducks Unlimited
- Canada's Nature Watch Program
(http://www.wetlands.ca:80/wi-a/whsrn/ducsas.html)
- Nomini
Creek Watershed Project - Virginia
(http://rcwpsun.cas.psu.edu:80/ncsu/casestudies/nominicreek/NominiMenu.html)
- Institute of Watershed
Studies - Western Washington University
(http://sanjuan.cs.wwu.edu:80/IWS/Welcome.html)
- The Volunteer Monitor
- how to start a stream monitoring project
(http://www.epa.gov/volunteer/spring93/school05.htm)
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For more information about the Creek Project contact:
ethiel @ pleasanton.k12.ca.us
-- Eric Thiel