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Birding

Cornell Lab of Ornithology homepage The URL (Uniform Resouces Locator) of this link is: http://www.ornith.cornell.edu/

Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
159 Sapsucker Woods Road Ithaca, NY 14850
607/254-2473 /607/254-2415 FAX
Membership Department
P. O. Box 11
Ithaca, New York 14850
607/254-2421

"Membership in the Lab of Ornithology begins at $30 per year. Members receive four issues of Living Bird, four issues of Birdscope," etc. The Cornell Lab organizes a FeederWatch census of birds around the country. The Lab recruits amateur bird census takers and, in fact, celebrates amateur bird watcher contributions to scientific understanding of bird populations. Data from classroom feeders is welcome. It costs $15 to participate ($12 for Lab members). Other interesting programs include Project PigeonWatch and Project Tanager. Join the network!

Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Project Classroom FeederWatch Home Page The URL (Uniform Resouces Locator) of this link is: http://teaparty.terc.edu/bird/bird.html

naturesounds
The URL (Uniform Resouces Locator) of this link is: http://www.hermeticsphere.com/naturesounds.html

Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History The URL (Uniform Resouces Locator) of this link is: http://www.rtpi.org:80/

311 Curtis Street
Jamestown,
NY 14701-9620

The Institute is devoted to collecting and disseminating the work of Roger Tory Peterson. Nature education is part of the mission of the Roger Tory Peterson Institute. Birds are an emphasis, though the Institute is interested in the broad spectrum of nature studies. The Institute has conducts a teacher training program around its Selborne Project. Membership brings you several interesting publications that may be useful in your curriculum.

Association of Field Ornithologists: Journal of Field Ornithology. The URL (Uniform Resouces Locator) of this link is: http://www.nmnh.si.edu/BIRDNET/AFO/journal.html

The Journal of Field Ornithology welcomes original articles that emphasize the descriptive or experimental study of birds in their natural habitats. Articles depicting techniques, emphasizing conservation, describing life history, or assessing published studies or existing ideas are appropriate. The Journal is especially interested in field studies conducted in the neotropics and those involving amateur participation.

Software for Birders The URL (Uniform Resouces Locator) of this link is: http://pluto.njcc.com/~llarson/listsoftw.html
Information on Listing Software for Birders received from subscribers to BirdChat.

BirdChat listserve.
To subscribe, send an e-mail message to listserv@listserv.arizona.edu containing the message SUBSCRIBE. A greeting letter is sent to subscribers specifying list commands.

This national list delivered, while I subscribed to it, approximately 15 to 40 messages per day. Requests for information posted on this list will yield responses about birding sites around the country and in many parts of the words. One follows interesting discussion threads about birding guides, equipment, offensive commercial advertising, etc. I subscribe to this list periodically while I seek information about particular birding sites in other states.

NYS Birds listserve. To subscribe, send an e-mail message to listproc@Cornell.edu containing the message SUBSCRIBE. A greeting letter is sent to subscribers specifying list commands.

This New York State list usually delivers a few messages per week, particularly, Rare Bird Alerts -- lists of rare bird sightings from five or six regions around the state. Two key lists for New York Metropolitan Area residents, are "NYC Area Rare Bird Alert" and "Lower Hudson Valley Bird Line."

Butterflies

Alice Yarborough on butterfly gardening

MonarchWatch The URL (Uniform Resouces Locator) of this link is: http://129.237.246.134/

c/o O. R. Taylor, Dept. of Entomology
University of Kansas, Haworth Hall
Lawrence KS 66045-2106
888/TAGGING
e-mail: monarch@falcon.cc.ukans.edu

The Monarch Watch is a network of teachers and scientists particularly interested in the Monarch butterfly. The MonarchWatch listserv connects all these people, enabling the network to monitor the Spring and Fall migrations of Monarch butterflies, between central Mexico and the United States and Canada.
Classes around the country count, tag, and report observations to Monarch Watch. In this important way, children can contribute to scientific environmental monitoring and conservation efforts.
The $10 annual membership fee brings you a tagging kit, season summaries, and a pre-migration newsletter. You can also obtain milkweed seeds, larvae and, of course, T-shirts.
In early Spring, 1997, Tiorati plans to plant milkweed in a Midtown West's [NYC District #2] Environmental Yard and a garden at the Dodson School in Yonkers. If all goes well, Tiorati will introduce Monarch caterpillars to some Midtown West and Dodson classrooms in September. The children will raise them and release the adults.
If you are interested in carrying out your own butterfly study, join now so you will receive the August mailings.

Gardening

Alice Yarborough on butterfly gardening

Garden Forum: Woodlands The URL (Uniform Resouces Locator) of this link is: http://www.gardenweb.com/forums/woodland/

National Gardening Association The URL (Uniform Resouces Locator) of this link is: http://www.gardenweb.com:80/cyberplt/society/nga.html

Burlington, VT
802/863-1308
Distributor of Grow Lab: A Complete Guide to Gardening in the Classroom by

Nature Forum: The Wildlife Garden The URL (Uniform Resouces Locator) of this link is: http://www.nature.net/forums/garden/

Natural Dyes

"Lessons to Dye For"
Growing Ideas: A Journal of Garden-Based Learning, April 1995
This page lists natural dye materials, describes how to prepare the dye, and how to treat the fabric. The page describes how two classes, second and fifth grades, began their studies of dye.

River Studies & Stream Studies

Some classrooms studying rivers have posted information and addresses on a bulletin board at this site. In addition, the site includes a short bibliography on river studies and links to sites with information about rivers.

Library sites

New York Public Library The URL (Uniform Resouces Locator) of this link is: http://www.nypl.org/

Museum sites

Membership brings a subscription to Natural History, a monthly magazine with interesting articles on natural history, celestial events, anthropology, folklore, and so forth, as well as free admission to this stupendous natural history collection.

Science Education

Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education The URL (Uniform Resouces Locator) of this link is: http://www.enc.org

Problem with the web site? Call the site's Technical Help Desk for assistance (800)621-5785 or (614) 292-9590

Essay on Cooperative Learning The URL (Uniform Resouces Locator) of this link is: http://tigerched.clemson.edu/cooplearn/paper.html

Eric Clearinghouse The URL (Uniform Resouces Locator) of this link is: http://www.ericse.org/

Science Education Associations homepage The URL (Uniform Resouces Locator) of this link is: http://science.coe.uwf.edu/default.html

CSU Bio Web The URL (Uniform Resouces Locator) of this link is: http://arnica.csustan.edu/index.html

Chemistry Teaching Resources The URL (Uniform Resouces Locator) of this link is: http://www.anachem.umu.se/eks/pointers.htm

Chemistry Teaching Resources -- curriculum materials The URL (Uniform Resouces Locator) of this link is: http://www.anachem.umu.se/cgi-bin/pointer.exe?Curriculum

Frank Potter's Science Gem -- Earth Science The URL (Uniform Resouces Locator) of this link is: http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/SEP/earth.html

Physics Around the World -- Education The URL (Uniform Resouces Locator) of this link is: http://www.physics.mcgill.ca:8081/physics-services/physics_education.html

If you notice that any of these links fail, please e-mail Tiorati care of Don Cook

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Last Update: February 12th, 1999
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