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Teacher Resource Materials Websites

Audubon Adventures (www.audubon.org/educate/aa/)
This environmental education program for children in grades 4 to 6 comes to you packaged as a classroom kit, which presents basic, scientifically accurate facts about birds, wildlife and their habitats.

Save Our Species (www.epa.gov/espp/poster/)
Provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, this site defines endangered species and extinct species and discusses how these animals and plants affect the ecosystem. Order a free poster for your classroom.

The Green Frog News (www.thegreenfrognews.com)
Every issue of this free science and environmental student newsletter is topic specific, not time or geographically sensitive, so you can use them year after year.

U. S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Solid Waste (www.epa.gov/osw/education/students.htm)
This site is filled with resource materials just for teachers and students, including "Planet Protector" kits and other publications.

Water Facts and Fun (www.publicaffairs.water.ca.gov/education/catalog.cfm)
The California Department of Water Resources presents this Website, filled with free water education materials for students in kindergarten through grade nine plus ordering information.

California Department of Water Resources--School Education Services (www.publicaffairs.water.ca.gov/education/)
Education services and materials are provided to schools throughout California by the Public Affairs Office. School Education Materials can be ordered from this Website or you can print out an order form and send it in by mail.

Last updated: August 24, 2009
Office of Education and the Environment http://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/Education/
Contact: EEI@calepa.ca.gov (916) 341-6769