Helping Kids Succeed in School Helping children enjoy learning and being successful in school is an important goal for parents, other family members, and schools.
Incubation & Embryology Teacher's guide for the 4-H Incubation and Embryology project including lesson plans, activities, and background resources.
All-Star River Explorers Join famous North American river explorers as you learn about what rivers are, how they form, and why they are so important to us.
Let's Party Tips for having safe, drug free parties for 5th-8th graders including a hosting checklist, tasty recipes, and fun party games.
Secret Life of Trees Learn all about the parts of a tree and why trees are important to us!
Tree House Weather Kids Helps young people understand such things as why the weather changes, how we predict the weather, and how weather causes great destruction.
Walk in My Shoes Learn what it feels like to be older and what happens to our bodies as we age.
Groundwater Adventures The National Groundwater Association has just opened a new educational website for teachers and students in the K through 12 grade levels. This webite offers Brain Ticklers, Fun Facts, Water Experiments, Pictures, Stories, MTV videos, and an actual groundwater observation well online. Check it out at http://www.groundwateradventurers.org
So, what lurks deep within the earth, moving slowly through spaces and cracks, often in search of an escape to the surface? Yikes! Don't worry – It's groundwater! This is a tremendous website for science teachers, students looking for unique ideas for a science project, or to generate interactive classroom discussion – share this website with your teachers!
Illinois Forestry Website Trees are Illinois' most valuable renewable natural resource. A new Illinois Forestry website has been developed by Jay Hayek, our new Forestry Extension Specialist. Visit the site at: http://web.extension.uiuc.edu/forestry/
Illinois Forestry contains a wealth of information on tree planting, forest management, urban and community forestry issues, Illinois forest facts and much more. An interesting section is the Illinois Big Tree Register that lists the largest trees in Illinois and their locations.
New Educational Website on Watersheds This website is very interactive – contains numerous games, quizzes, and facts for 4-12 grade students on topics such as water quantity, watersheds, floods, water quality, water sources, drought. http://meted.comet.ucar.edu/broadcastmet/watershed/ This website is developed by COMET - a joint venture between the National Weather Service and the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR).
New Website Features the Many Face of Agriculture What do you think of when you hear the word "agriculture"? The image of crops growing in a field or a barnyard full of animals may come to mind. But even if you don't live on a farm, agriculture is all around us. Learn more about where we get our food!
Teachers and students should check out the Illinois Department of Agriculture's Kid's Page http://www.agr.state.il.us/kidspage/index.html to see Farm Animals & their Babies; Food & Other Things you every day that come from the Farm; The Story of Milk, Plants, animals and more to see on the Farm; Word Puzzles; and Hidden Word Searches.
