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Additional Websites
  • Adventures of Herman
    Squirmin' Herman the Worm teaches students all about worms and how to make their own worm bin in this interactive curriculum.
  • Animals Past and Present
    Lessons for elementary students about what happened to dinosaurs, and what animals lived in Illinois 65 million years ago, 10 million years ago, and today.
  • Let's Party
    Tips for having safe, drug free parties for 5th-8th graders including a hosting checklist, tasty recipes, and fun party games.
  • 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.
  • Secret Life of Trees
    Learn all about the parts of a tree and why trees are important to us!
  • Fresh From the World...Where Your Food Comes From
    This site looks at 15 different popular foods and explores their histories and origins to help kids understand that their food comes from all over the world.
  • Riding the Winds with Kalani: A Weather Adventure
    This website is for K-2 students and teaches the concepts of temperature, clouds, precipitation and basic earth movements.
  • Adventures of Herman
    Squirmin' Herman the Worm teaches students all about worms and how to make their own worm bin in this interactive curriculum.
  • Trees Are Terrific
    Travel with Pierre as you learn all about how trees are important to us!

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For more information about these programs, please contact:

Susan Hayden
Unit Educator, Youth Development
Monroe County Unit
901 Illinois Avenue
PO Box 117
Waterloo, IL 62298
Phone: 618-939-3434
FAX: 618-939-7708
shayden@illinois.edu

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