 March
2005
Earth's Birthday
Project
Good hands-on approach to celebrating Earth Day year-round!
Grade Level: Pre-K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
http://www.earthsbirthday.org/
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CONTENT:
Earth’s Birthday Project provides teachers with effective Earth
Day related learning resources that are fun, free, or inexpensive
and easy to implement in the classroom. |
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SITE DESIGN:
The site’s design is simple and uncluttered. Links are listed
on the main page as a table of contents and subsequent pages have
a top navigation menu. A few of the links in the body of the Hands
on Science section were inoperable but links in the top navigation
bar (leading to the same pages) do work. |
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REVIEW:
The Earth’s Birthday Project provides lots of resources for
teachers to plan their Earth Day activities for their classroom
as well as hands-on science activities that can be used throughout
the year. Teachers will find the resources necessary to prepare
their class and participate in the “Big Gift”, a program
to help save the rain forests. Included in this section are Amazon
Activities for grades preK-8 and Rainforest Exploration lessons
for grades K-12 as well as a virtual tour of the Rainforest with
photos and poetry. By clicking on the Hands-on Science link and
following the links in the navigation menu at the top of the page,
users will find information and activities on all kinds of bugs
and butterflies such as antlions, luna moths, ladybugs, and praying
mantis, as well as how to build a butterfly garden, and enrichment
activities that include spiders, insects and more. There are three
(grades 2-3, 4-5, 6-7) Ant Web hunts available for download in .pdf
format. Rounding out the site are sets of links to more information
and resources.
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