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Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Leaf Detectives


 

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Animal Adaptation

  • Animal Adaptation: Build a Bird!
  • Bird Beak Adaptation
  • Perplexing Preying Mantids

Birds

  • Animal Adaptation: Build a Bird!
  • ASRI Bird Lessons
  • Bird Beak Adaptation
  • Bird Feeders and Winter Bird Count
  • Galapagos Finches
  • Gustav Klimt Goldfinch STEM to STEAM
  • Identifying Birds
  • Owl Detective
  • Owl Pellets - Food Chain Investigation

Climate Change

  • Trees and Climate Change

Dirt and Detritivores

  • Ant Behaviors
  • Bess Beetles
  • Bug Hunt
  • Compost Critters
  • Dirt and Compost
  • Dirt and Detrivore Books & Videos
  • Moss and Lichen
  • Pill Bugs, Plain and Small (STEM to STEAM)
  • Programs and Workshops
  • Rocks and Minerals
  • Soil Structure
  • Underground Ecosystems
  • Worms and Compost

Ecosystems

  • Compost Critters
  • Deadly Links
  • Underground Ecosystems
  • Water Pollution Model
  • Watersheds

Energy/Recycling

  • Alternative Energy
  • Problem-Solver: Wildlife Injuries
  • Recycle Relay
  • Recycling in Rhode Island

Finding Evidence: Scat, Tracks, & More

  • Animal Detective
  • "Crime Scene" Tracks

Frogs and Toads

  • Frog and Toad STEM to STEAM
  • Frog and Toad Trading Cards

Food Chains and Webs

  • Deadly Links
  • Food Chains
  • Food Chains and Food Webs
  • Food Web: WETLANDS

Habitat Creation/Restoration

  • Build a Better Buffer
  • Planting For Wildlife

Insects

  • Ant Behaviors
  • Bee Charmer
  • Bess Beetles
  • Bug Hunt
  • Build a Bug House!
  • Compost Critters
  • Dill and Swallowtail
  • Host Plants
  • Identifying Insects
  • Insect Guides and Supplies
  • Ladybug Lifecycle
  • Monarchs and Milkweed
  • Pollinators
  • Scientific Insect Study

Mammals

  • Animal Detective
  • Ecosystems
  • Food Chains and Food Webs

Plants

  • Citizen Science! The Great Pumpkin Project
  • Common Weeds
  • Companion Planting
  • Dandelions
  • Dill and Swallowtail
  • Emily Dickinson, the Botanist
  • The Five Senses
  • Galls
  • Leaf Detective
  • Measuring Seed Growth
  • Milkpot Plants
  • Photosynthesis
  • Pine Trees and Other Conifers
  • Plant I.D.
  • Plant Part Bingo
  • Pollution-Fighting Plants
  • Recipes
  • Seed Journals/Experiments
  • Seed Mobility
  • Seed Sorting and Saving
  • Seed Sort Sunflowers
  • Taterthon!
  • What to Grow

Streams and Macroinvertebrates

  • Gyotaku: Styrofoam Trays to Sting Rays! (NGSS)
  • Stream Macroinvertebrates
  • Microorganisms

Water in the Ecosystem

  • Erosion Control and Water Filtration through Plants
  • Flooding and Climate Change
  • Gyotaku: Styrofoam Trays to Sting Rays! (NGSS)
  • Menhaden Matter!
  • Shellfish
  • Watersheds
  • Water Cycle, Watersheds
  • Weather Activities
  • Water Pollution Model
  • Weather Data Sheet

Exhibits

  • Tree Power Art Exhibit

Programs

  • Blackstone Park Programs
  • Programs and Workshops

Contact Us

  • Contact and About 15 Minute Field Trips

Citizen Science and Community Action

  • Help the Herps! (Reptiles and Amphibians)
  • Trees Mitigating Climate Change

Teacher Downloads

  • Teacher Downloads

$25 Memberships and Donations

Recommended Resources

  • Audubon CT Schoolyard Curriculum
  • Big Bug Hunt - Report Pests
  • Brilliant Botany
  • Coalition Center for Environmental Sustainability
  • Community Ecology Institute
  • Environmental Groups - Collaborate?
  • Green Kids
  • Grow It, Try It, Like It
  • Leaf Pack Network
  • Learn, Grow, Eat, and Go!
  • Moshassuck Watershed
  • North American Association for Environmental Education
  • Project Wild
  • Tree-Plenish
  • Ultimate Beginner Guide to Gardening with Kids
  • URI Outreach Lesson Plans

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Field Guides

  • Make Your Own Field Guide
  • Recommended Field Guides
  • 15 Minute Field Guide

Games

  • Deadly Links
  • Plant Part Bingo
  • Recommended Games

Grants

  • Grant Opportunities

Growing Tips

  • Garden Maintenance
  • Raised Beds
  • Family Gardening

Get Connected Outside:

  • Audubon Society of RI
  • Big Backyard
  • Eco-Depot
  • Eco-Explorers
  • Environment Rhode island
  • Green Circle Design
  • Junior Master Gardeners
  • Nature Rhode Island
  • Nature Swap
  • Northwest RI Supporters of Open Space
  • RI Environmental Education Association
  • RI Families in Nature
  • RI Natural History Society
  • RISD Nature Lab
  • Rhode Island Mineral Hunters
  • URI Cooperative Extension
  • Urban Green Co-Op
  • What Grows On in RI

Healthy Eating

  • Edible Wild Plants
  • Food Deserts and Food Miles
  • Recipes
  • What to Grow

Around the World in 100 Miles

  • Recipes

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