Expand the boundaries of your kit study. Encourage your students' curiosity with these outlets for extending engagement in research.

Online Schoolyard Experiments and Activities
        This site offers online projects that allow students to conduct scientific and mathematical investigations in their schoolyards and then submit their collected data using an online form.

The Global Water Sampling Project
        Students can join others all over the world to test the water quality of local rivers, streams, and ponds. Sponsored by the Stevens Institute of Technology, this site offers resources for teachers and students, online experts, reference materials, and lesson ideas.

Earth Science Enterprise: For Kids Only
        This NASA-produced site for kids explains how NASA uses its information to study the state of the planet, and how kids can use their skills--now and in the future careers--to get involved. Some games require Shockwave.

DragonflyNet
        DragonflyNet is the first project to publish children's investigations on equal footing with adult researchers'. You can use this site profitably without having a subscription to the magazine, but it's useful to know that Dragonfly editors are looking for third- to sixth-grade student authors nationwide.

Give Water a Hand
        Give Water A Hand is national watershed education program designed to involve young people in local environmental service projects. Illustrated guides that demonstrate methods to organize and implement effective projects, and are freely available to download from the site.

Environmental Student Award and Grant Programs
        This site offers dozens of links to environmentally oriented student competitions, awards, and grant programs.

Service-Learning: Education Beyond the Classroom
        The EPA provides examples of service-learning projects for solid waste management by students in grades K-12 across the country.

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School Gardens
        Find information about starting a school garden, with access to topic-specific sites, books, and other resources.

Kinder GARDEN
        This easy site provides straightforward information and tips about starting a school garden.

Composting for Kids
        Though a slide show format, kids can learn how to compost and are exposed to a lot of friendly information about the science the makes composting work.

KidsGardening.com
        An offshoot of the National Gardening Association, this site has resources for teachers and families to spur kids' interest in gardening, including projects, a newsletter, FAQs, and classroom stories.

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Conservation Ecology
        Conservation Ecology is an electronic, peer-reviewed, scientific journal featuring current research. While the articles are dense and scholarly, it could be useful to reference some real-life research being performed by scientists.

Environmental Publications
        EE Link (a project of the North American Association for Environmental Education) provides an excellent annotated list of environmental publications.

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Wildlife Web Sounds
        This site offers dozens of links to knowledgeable sites with sounds and facts about many animal species.

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World Resources Institute Internet Resources
        To aid in research, this site provides a rich resource of links to many general science, nature, and environment resources, organizations, and publications.

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Pioneering New Frontiers in Environmental Learning
        Center for Global Environmental Education specializes in combining environmental education with distance learning technology, while integrating hands-on learning to build community among students and teachers world-wide. It has three K-12 programs--Rivers of Life, Friends of Frogs, and Self-Expressing Earth--which deal with environmental education and service-learning.

Project Learning Tree
        Project Learning Tree is an interdisciplinary environmental education program for students in pre-K through grade 12 that uses the forest to help students gain an awareness and knowledge of the natural and built environments. Teachers can obtain Project Learning Tree's Pre-K-8 Activity Guide or Secondary Modules by attending a training workshop.

Project WILD
        The Project WILD site: "Through a national network of state coordinators and facilitators Project WILD has provided workshops and materials (Project WILD K-12 Activity Guide and Project WILD Aquatic Education Activity Guide) focusing on hands-on, activity-based, environmental education."

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 9819641.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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