How much does a manatee weigh--in a way that children will understand? Check here for activities to support this kind of instruction.

Teachers may write for a free educator's guide or a free coloring and activity guide. If you teach in Florida, you can also participate in a free in-service program. See details here.

School classes can adopt a manatee for $10.  With this program, they will get photos of their manatee sent to them, including individual scar patterns to help them recognize their manatee; a manatee information book; and a quarterly
club newsletter, with updates on their manatee.

Dive and Explore! Daily updates and quizzes are available from this research project, sponsored by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The current journey is exploring a mid-ocean ridge projection along the East Pacific Rise off the western coast of Central America. See Plate Techtonics in action! More trips scheduled in 2001.

The Aviary is a resource center for bird lovers. Information included is bird health, food, nutrition, watching wild birds. You can even ask a vet questions if you have birds of your own.

Bird Extremes! If you're looking for the biggest, smalles, highest, fastest, ost unusual bird facts, this is a good place to start!

Virtual Birding! Complete with students lesson and teacher's lesson plan.

Birding by ear-Spring tune up. Here, you can listen to different birds to be able to identify them by ear.

 Here, you can find bird feeder cams and nesting cams. You can peek into a bald eagle's nest in Massachusetts, storks in Germany, falcons in Montreal, or squirrels in the US.

Here you can learn all about different homes for birds. You can even find directions on building bird houses!

I just thought I'd pass this along incase anyone might be interested. This is from the Institute for Creation Research, and they have put up several articles on botany. Check out the one about pop-corn! I think we're going to have to try and grow some :) Sue

This site site is a live cam of Canadian Geese. The mother has 8 eggs and they have begun to hatch. I thought I'd share it since your kids might enjoy this. We have some that nest under our window at my office each year. Ours our gone but there are a few pics on my webpage that we took with an internal web camduring Easter weekend.  Marti