Boston Schoolyard Initiative
The Boston Schoolyard Initiative is a nonprofit/government partnership
to transform Boston's degraded schoolyards into active centers of learning
and community use. A web site is in the planning stages.
The Butterfly
Zone [http://www.butterflies.com]
The Butterfly Zone is one of quite a few sites devoted to butterfly
culture and butterfly gardening. This site offers advice on designing gardens
to attract butterflies; information about many of the butterfly species
found in North America; and a Florida butterfly gardener's personal month-by-month
journal. The site also offers for sale seeds, plants and other items related
to butterfly gardening.
The Evergreen Foundation
[http://www.evergreen.ca/]
The Evergreen Foundation is a Canadian nonprofit organization dedicated
to preserving and restoring natural areas in urban environments through
education and community action groups. Their School Ground Naturalization
program is designed to give teachers, parents, communities and students
the tools to transform their school grounds into healthier learning environments.
This is an extremely well-developed and useful web site, and provides a
great deal of information that will be useful to individuals outside of
Canada as well as those in Canada. The Evergreen Foundation also sponsors
the Outdoor Classroom list_serv.
Georgia Wildlife Federation
[http://www.gwf.org/]
The Georgia Wildlife Federation is an American nonprofit organization
and is associated with the National Wildlife Federation. The Georgia chapter
has put together many resources relating to their Schoolyard Habitat and
Backyard Habitat programs, including design information and teacher kits.
Their web site is under construction, but it already contains a helpful
"Backyard Wildlife Habitat Planning Guide", as well as information
about how to order some other resources, including the schoolyard habitats
video they produced, a habitat newsletter, and "National Wildlife
Week" teacher kits (much of this information is also available on
the National Wildlife Federation web
site at [http://www.nwf.org/], which
is described below. Their Schoolyard Habitat Planning
Guide is being reformatted, apparently for inclusion in the web site
as well, although as of 1/10/97 it is not yet online.
National Wildlife Federation
[http://www.nwf.org/]
The National Wildlife Federation is an American nonprofit organization
that sponsors backyard wildlife and schoolyard habitat programs, in addition
to a wide array of other environmental programs. The page for their habitat
programs [http://www.nwf.org/nwf/prog/habitats/] provides some general
informaion about elements that should be included in the design of wildlife
habitats, and links to other resources that can provide more information
about how to construct (or where to buy) specific elements (such as ponds,
birdhouses, etc.). You can also access on-line applications for certification
of your backyard or schoolyard habitat (complete with personalized certificate).
The page also accesses articles from NWF publications that discuss habitat
elements and offer some how-to information.
Seeds
of Change Garden [http://horizon.nmsu.edu/garden/welcome.html]
The Seeds of Change site is a partnership between the Smithsonian Institution's
Natural Partners Initiative and New Mexico State University's College of
Agriculture and Home Economics. This page is a tremendous resource for
linking social studies, science and multicultural education through hands-on
activities in a discovery garden or outdoor classroom. The site offers
many hands-on activities for a Seeds of Change Garden that emphasizes the
rich diversity that can result from cultural exchange. The site uses garden
activities to explore how the world changed after Columbus sailed to the
New World. It offers advice on planting a garden with Old World, New World,
and "Exchange" plants. Through the garden-making and other [wonderful]
activities, children will learn about cultural and biological diversity,
agriculture, commerce and world history.
Rolodex
information is available for this entry. Go to Addresses.
discoverygardens@mindspring.com
http://www.mindspring.com/~discoverygardens/resource/online2.html
Last updated: March 21, 1997