Book Suggestions

First Grade and Up:
“At Home with the Gopher Tortoise” by Madeleine Dunphy
“Be a Friend to Trees” by Patricia Lauber
“Bird Songs” by Les Beletsky
“Do You Know Where Sea Turtles Go?” by Paul Lowery
“How Gimble Gopher Tortoise Found a New Home” by Kay Thorpe Bannon
“Recycle” by Gail Gibbons
“Where Does the Garbage Go?” by Paul Showers

Fourth Grade:
“Longleaf” by Roger Reid
“My Side of the Mountain” by Jean Craighead George
“The Girl of the Sea of Cortez” by Peter Benchley
“The Salamander Room” by Anne Mazer

Education

Forestry Degrees http://forestrydegree.net/top-100-resources/
Nature Works Everywhere for grades 6-8 http://www.natureworkseverywhere.org/
Biological Diversity is for 1st-4th grade (http://kids.cbd.int/index.htm)
Birds of the Longleaf Pine Forest Ecosystem (http://www.wild-bird-watching.com)
Earth Day Ideas (http://www.onlineschools.org/resources/earth-day-ideas/)
Education k-12 material from Waste Management
( http://www.wm.com/enterprise/k-12-education/index.jsp)
Energy Star is for 1st-4th grade (http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=kids.kids_index)
Environmentally Friendly Cars – http://www.cheapcarinsurance.net/the-environmentally-friendly-car/
Environmentally Friendly Resource Library (http://www.naturalenviro.com/Environmentally-Friendly-Resource-Library.php)
Greening Schools – http://istc013.istc.illinois.edu/
Identifying a tree (http://www.oplin.org/tree/)
Seepage Bog Field Guide (http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/nwfla/bog.htm)
Videos and Classroom Materials from Waste Management (http://www.thinkgreen.com)
Who Lives in the Pine Forest? (http://www.bio-graphix.com/pine.htm)

Conservation

1000 Friends of Florida (http://www.1000friendsofflorida.org)
Audubon (http://www.audubon.org)
Choctawhatchee Basin Alliance (http://www.basinalliance.org)
Clean Water Network (http://www.cwn-se.org)
Defenders of Wildlife (http://www.defenders.org)
Gopher Tortoise Council (http://www.gophertortoisecouncil.org)
Longleaf Alliance (http://www.longleafalliance.org)
Nokuse (http://www.nokuse.org)
The Nature Conservancy (http://www.nature.org)
The Trust for Public Land (http://www.tpl.org)

Recycling/Eco-friendly Products

Bay County Recycling (http://www.co.bay.fl.us/waste/dropoff.php)
Earth 911 (http://earth911.com)
Holmes County Recycling (http://www.holmescountyfl.org/Recycling.htm)
KleanKanteen (http://www.KleanKanteen.com)
Leon County Recycling (http://www.leoncountyfl.gov/recycling/index.asp)
Okaloosa County Recycling (http://www.co.okaloosa.fl.us/dept_pw_resources_recycle.html)
Reuseit/Reusable Bags (http://www.Reuseablebags.com)
SoWal Recycle (http://sowalrecycle.blogspot.com/)
Walton County Recycling (http://www.co.walton.fl.us/index.aspx?nid=200)
Washington County Recycling (http://www.washingtonfl.com/recyclingcenter/recycling.htm)
Waste Management Home Page (http://www.wm.com/index.jsp)
Waste Management Recycling
(http://www.wm.com/products-and-services/residential-recycling/index.jsp)

Other Local Groups

Alaqua Animal Refuge (http://www.alaquaanimalrefuge.org)
Choctawhatchee Audubon Society (http://www.choctawhatcheeaudubon.org/)
Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge (http://www.ecwildliferefuge.com)
Nonies Ark (http://www.noniesark.com)
Twin Oaks (http://www.twinoaksfarm.net)
Walton Outdoors (http://www.waltonoutdoors.com)

 

 

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