We hope that these materials will help you and your students learn more about endangered and threatened species.

• Why save endangered species? (teaching themes and text of our brochure)
• Biodiversity glossary for kids [PDF]
• Participate in the Junior Duck Stamp Program
• Endangered Species Information from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Hundreds of threatened and endangered species, each with its own "mini-home page" with biological information, graphics, and links to other locations! Just click on the asterisk after each species' name to reach its individual home page.
• The Endangered Species Act [PDF]. Also, History and Evolution of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, including its relationship to CITES, and how the Endangered Species Act is administered.
• What's happening in the recovery of endangered and threatened species?
• Feature articles from the Endangered Species Bulletin
• Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) "Save Our Species" Picture Book
• Wildlife Fact Sheets or "Biologues" of mammals, birds, and reptiles.
• "Plants in Peril" lesson plans and activities from the Center For Plant Conservation.

Endangered Species
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

• The Endangered Species Act
• Endangered Species Info
• Endangered & Threatened Species List
• Habitat Conservation Plans
• Conservation Agreements
• Species Recovery
  

Other Organizations

• North American Association for Environmental Education Internet Resources (comprehensive resources and information on endangered species)
• National Wildlife Federation—Keep The Wild Alive (program focus on U.S. endangered species)
• Project Wild–Science and Civics 9–12 curriculum (partial focus on The Endangered Species Act)
• 4-H: National 4-H Council
• Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service
• North American Pollinator Protection Campaign—Nature's Partners -- Pollinators, Plants, and You A comprehensive pollinator curriculum for grades 3-6
  

Biodiversity

• World Wildlife Fund–Windows on the Wild: Biodiversity Basics Curriculum
• The Biodiversity Project

Student Projects

• Partners for Fish and Wildlife Schoolyard Habitats (list of state contacts)
• National Wildlife Federation Schoolyard Habitat Program
• Junior Duck Stamp Program
• The Nature of Learning (community-based education program)
• Shorebird Sister Schools Program (through technology links students along shorebird flyways)

Student Information

• Educating for Convervation
• Kid’s Corner

Curriculum Resources and Activities

• North American Pollinator Protection Campaign
• Web Resources for Environmental Education
• Hands on the Land
• National Wetlands Inventory
• Shorebird Sister Schools
• Piping Plover, Atlantic Coast Population
• Fairbanks Fishery Resources Office - Cyber Salmon
• The Keystone Center - The Nature of Learning
• International Migratory Birds Day
• Division of Migratory Bird Management - Educational
• Prairie Wetlands Learning Center
• Waubay National Wildlife Refuge and Wetland Management District
• Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Complex