For teaching made easy! This page provides resources that will make teaching about the Everglades easy and fun! You can download the Teacher's Guide with lesson plans for The Journey of Wayne Drop to the Everglades, sign-up for educator updates or share lesson plans. Please note the movies may take a few moments to load.
How can we support you? Please let us know what we can do to help you bring the Everglades into your classroom. E-mail Erica Robbins with your ideas and requests.
Everglades Reading List The new Everglades Reading List is a great place to learn about the Greater
Everglades Ecosystem and related topics. You can filter searches by genre, reading level or language.
Decorate your classroom with Everglades Bulletin Board Characters! Introduce
new Everglades lessons with bulletin board characters featured in U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers educational materials. Download, print and put them up!
Download and take it with you! Download the interactive storybook to your computer, then save it anywhere else you want. Put it on a flash drive, burn it to CD, put it on your laptop or load onto student computers. This is a stand-alone file, that doesn't require Internet access or other programs to run.
Teach with Technology
Enrich your Journey of Wayne Drop to the Everglades lessons by linking to an awesome resource for exploring your world: Google Earth Download Google Earth for free at http://earth.google.com/
Fly from space to your school or home, using satellite imagery. Then follow The Journey of Wayne Drop to the Everglades using Google Earth.
1) Click on Florida or search for Kissimmee, Florida and travel south through the Kissimmee Chain of Lakes, following the Kissimmee River to Lake Okeechobee.
2) Head west on the Caloosahatchee River to the Gulf of Mexico, East on the St. Lucie River to the Atlantic Ocean, or south through the patchwork of farms in the Everglades Agricultural Area.
3) Continue south through the unique ridge and slough landscape of the Everglades, and follow the flow pattern southwest to the estuary of Florida Bay, where your journey ends.
Teacher's Guide & Lesson Plans The Journey of Wayne Drop to the Everglades (Elementary Level)
Download and print the PDF version(2.3 mb) - Copy and paste from the PDF directly into your lesson plans!
Florida Sunshine State Standard Benchmark Correlations in PDF format (757 kb) - Copy and paste from the PDF directly into your lesson plans!
Download and take it with you! Download the interactive teacher's guide to your computer, then save it anywhere else you want. Put it on a flash drive, burn it to CD, put it on your laptop or any computer. This is a stand-alone file, that doesn't require Internet access or other programs to run.
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(Pre-K through College Level) Do you have a fantastic lesson plan you would like to share? E-mail Erica Robbins at erica.a.robbins@usace.army.mil
Poster: Journey Through the KOE Watershed This beautiful, two-sided poster, is part of the Everglades: An American Treasure program packet for middle and high school teachers. It explores the journey of water through the Kissimmee - Okeechobee - Everglades (KOE) Watershed.
Everglades Mobile Collector's Edition No. 1 Bulletin Board
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