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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Irrigation Conservation for Trees, Shrubs, Gardens, and Lawn

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how to provide the proper amount of water for optimal growth and biodiversity in a backyard habitat.
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Tips for Photographing Landscaping Beautifully

For Students 9th - 10th
Habitat Network encourages members to get in the habit of regularly photographing their sites, often yards, twice a year.
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Freedom From Danger

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how minimizing pesticide-use can maximize diversity in a backyard habitat.
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Article
Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Support Dragonflies: A Goal for Your Site?

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out why dragonflies are beneficial to a backyard habitat.
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Manage Water: A Goal for Your Site?

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how to set goals and manage water for a local backyard habitat.
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: The Great Backyard Bird Count Group

For Students 9th - 10th
Show off a local wonderful habitat by joining the Great-Backyard-Bird-Count group, and put the bird count data on your map.
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Planning Tool: Understanding How Actions Are Awarded

For Students 9th - 10th
With this Habitat Network planning tool, set goals, complete action steps, and reach community outcomes for a more diverse ecosystem.
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: 11 Times Photographers Who Share Totally Made Our Work Better

For Students 9th - 10th
Habitat Network celebrates the amazing photography shared throughout the project by various photographers.
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Explore

For Students 9th - 10th
View images of a variety of habitats, check-out custom local resources, and get inspired by featured habitat sites.
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Seeds, Glorious Native Seeds

For Students 9th - 10th
A guide to finding the right seeds for a particular backyard habitat.
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Article
Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: 8 Reasons to Plant Something New

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about eight habitat-enhancing reasons to expand the plant diversity in a backyard.
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Native Landscaping Makes Sense

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn why planting native plants helps any backyard habitat and increases biodiversity.
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Native Flowerbeds

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out why flowering plants are foundational in the understory of a structurally diverse habitat.
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Installing and Maintaining a Native Lawn

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how the native approach can improve a yard to provide habitat for birds and other wildlife while keeping a grassy open area for recreation.
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: At a Brand New Home

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out what to do with the habitat of a blank canvas at a new home landscape.
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: On a Median

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about the habitat along the sides and medians of millions of miles of roads.
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Woodland Edges

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about the higher bird diversity at the boundary of two habitat types than in either type individually.
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Wetlands

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how to support wetland plants and animals in a backyard habitat.
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Article
Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Meadows and Grasslands

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how to create a backyard habitat which provides a more meadow-like environment for birds.
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: In Your Yard

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this guide to create a habitat that attracts and sustains various bird species.
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Don't Be an Ecological Trap

For Students 9th - 10th
With the help of some economics metaphors, Habitat Network delves into the scary-sounding "ecological trap" and helps bring it to light.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: The Prairie Project [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th
"The Prairie Project" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about students who learn about the prairie, take a field trip to see one, and then plant one on the school grounds. It is followed by constructed-response questions which...
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Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology

Ciese Collaborative Projects: Bucket Buddies: Environmental Study

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Bucket Buddies is an opportunity for young scholars to participate in a world-wide environmental study. By identifying organisms in pond water, participating classes can compare their findings, and look for relationships in data. In...
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Project Wild: Wildlife Is Everywhere! [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Teach students to be more aware of the wildlife in their surroundings, inside or outside. Includes lesson, extension activities, and evaluation ideas.

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