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Links on this page are for activities and materials dealing with prairies. Prairies make up most of the grasslands in the United States. Prairies are grasslands characterized by rolling hills, plains, and sod-forming grasses.
Activities and Resources: Educational Activities
This site includes large amounts of information on Illinois prairies, restoration, and management. The URL is: http://www.museum.state.il.us./exhibits/midewin/fr...
Students will construct a pitfall trap to collect organisms found in the prairie. A data collection
form is included. The URL is: http://web.stclair.k12.il.us/splashd/pitfall.htm
This site contains lessons for grades 1-12 in the areas of language arts, social studies, science and math focusing on the prairie ecosystem.
The URL is: http://www.openlands.org/midewin/table.htm
In these activities students will identify and collect soil, plants and insects. Students will research the history of Illinois land use and development. Students will also plant prairie seeds. This is a year project. Evaluation, assessment and lesson extensions are included.
The URL is: http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEC/AEF/1996/la...
Prairie word search that is at a Middle School Reading Level.
The URL is: http://www.tallgrass.org/kids.html
What’s It Like Where You Live?”
the grassland biome – introductory information. The URL is: http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/grasslnd/index.htm
A neat CD that has the sounds of Prairie animals.
The URL is: http://people.clarityconnect.com/webpages2/natures...
Environmental Education in the Tallgrass Prairie States website created for classroom teachers and environmental educators. The
directory includes resources for the integration of EE into interdisciplinary classroom instruction, with an emphasis on the prairie biome. The URL is: http://leep.lis.uiuc.edu/publish/gruenber/EnvEd/00...
Background information on the ecology and natural history of prairie organisms, tips on prairie plant and animal identification (and ecological function), and interactive learning games ("Build a Prairie"). Developed by Minnesota IDEALS.
The URL is: http://www.bellmuseum.org/distancelearning/prairie...
Students are challenged to create a better seed than Mother Nature.
The URL is: http://www.teachers.net/lessons/posts/110.html
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