| The Department of
Youth Development and Agricultural Education has a number of activities
that can be used for classroom enrichment. This page has links to
natural resource, environmental, and science curriculum that Dr.
Natalie Carroll has developed or collaborated on.
Lesson
Plans and Activities,
Activities for classroom enrichment, many using 4-H manuals
Indiana Academic Standards
addressed in the 4-H natural resource manuals
Other natural resource programs & information
- Insects as Bioindicators of Water Quality
- Proper Disposal of Unwanted Medicines - Educational activities for high school students. Manual, Website
- Energy Investigators, hard copy available (Student Guide, Facilitator's Guide)
- Watershed Connections - Water
- Quality & Quantity. (for middle & high school students) selected county publications, youth activities: drinking
water, floods, pollution
sources, terminology,
Watershed Connections booklet, teacher key
- Wetland Protection - Biological Control of Purple Loosestrife Project (for middle
& high school students); website. Contact Dr. N. Carroll for a publication.
- Water: Indiana's Water Riches (4-H
882, curriculum for
upper elementary students) is no longer available for purchase. Many county offices have copies. This publication includes Water, how we use it, where
it comes from, where it goes, Above and Below ground, pollution,
and Conservation. Demonstrations and student experiments are included
(114 pages). The newsletters have a new look and are now available online: Unit 1, Unit 2, Unit 3, Unit 4, Unit 5.
- Indiana Master Naturalist Program
- Indiana DNR Natural
Resources Education Center news and programs: Go FishIN, Hoosier
Riverwatch, Project Learning Tree, Project WET and Project WILD.
- Schoolyard Habitats program. Resources and programs for formal and informal K-12 educators.
- Butterfly
and Nature Alphabet posters.
An attractive classroom poster or gift, including an alphabet
made naturally by butterflies and moths (wing patterns).
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