                   |
        |
|||||
|
|
||||||
EDUCATION RESOURCES Publications Oregon State University Wildlife, Forestry and Garden Publications The following publications are now available on the OSU Extension website: EC 1571, The Wildlife Garden: Western Bluebird: Sialia mexicana Authors: Laura Schumacher and Sarah Sells New May 2005, 4 pages, $1.00 http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog/pdf/EC/EC1571. EC 1601, The Wildlife Garden: Dragonfly (Anax junius) EC 1602, The Wildlife Garden: Common Garter Snake (Thamnophis sirtalis) EC 1603, The Wildlife Garden: Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis) New May 2007, 4 pages, $1.00 http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog/pdf/ec/ec1603.pdf EC 1604, The Wildlife Garden: Lady Beetle (Hippodamia convergens) EC 1605, The Wildlife Garden: Praying Mantis (Stagmomantis californica) EC 1606, The Wildlife Garden: Wood Duck (Aix sponsa) EC 1541, The Wildlife Garden: Attract Hummingbirds to Your Garden January 2002, 8 pages, $1.50 EC 1542, The Wildlife Garden: Attract Reptiles and Amphibians to Your Yard July 2002, 12 pages, $2.00 EC 1548, The Wildlife Garden: Create a Garden Pond for Wildlife April 2002, 8 pages, $1.50 EC 1549, The Wildlife Garden: Create a Butterfly Garden January 2002, 8 pages, $1.50 EC 1554, The Wildlife Garden: Feed Wild Birds May 2003, 8 pages, $1.50 EC 1556, The Wildlife Garden: Create Roosts for Bats in Your Yard May 2003, 8 pages, $1.50 EC 1557, The Wildlife Garden: Reduce Deer Damage in Your Yard November 2002, 8 pages, $1.50 EC 1566, The Wildlife Garden: Raccoon (Procyon Lotor) September 2004, 4 pages, $1.00 EC 1567, The Wildlife Garden: California Quail (Callipepla Californica) September, 4 pages, $1.00 EC 1568, The Wildlife Garden: American Robin (Turdus migratorius) October 2004, 4 pages, $1.00 EC 1569, The Wildlife Garden: Pacific Chorus Frog (Pseudacris regilla) November 2004, 4 pages, $1.00 EC 1570, The Wildlife Garden: Rufous Hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus) May 2005 , 4 pages, $1.00 EC 1572, The Wildlife Garden: Western Gray Squirrel (Sciurus griseus) November 2004, 4 pages, $1.00 EC 1577, Gardening with Oregon Native Plants West of the Cascades November 2006, 36 pages, $10.00 EC 1578, The Wildlife Garden: American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) December 2005 , 4 pages, $1.00 EC 1580,
The Wildlife Garden: Townsend’s Chipmunk (Tamias townsendii) December 2005 , 4 pages, $1.00 EC 1583,
The Wildlife Garden: Chickadee (Poecile atricapilla) September 2006, 4 pages, $1.00 EC 1584,
The Wildlife Garden: Little Brown Bat (Myotis lucifugus) September 2006, 4 pages, $1.00 EM 8885-E, Selecting Native Plant Materials for Restoration Projects (by B. Withrow-Robinson and R. Johnson), New November 2006, 10 pages (available only online) http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog/pdf/em/em8885-e.pdf EM 8889, Blueberry Gall Midge: A Possible New Pest in the Northwest (Identification, Life Cycle, and Plant Injury) (by Wei Yang), new May 2005, 4 pages, $2.00 http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog/html/EM/EM8889 FG 36-E, Tall Fescue Grown for Seed: Western Oregon--West of Cascades Fertilizer Guide (by John Hart, et al.), revised May 2005, 3 pages, no charge (available only online) http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog/pdf/FG/FG36-E.pdf FG 46-E, Perennial Ryegrass Grown for Seed: Western Oregon--West of Cascades Fertilizer Guide (by John Hart, et al.), revised May 2005, 3 pages, no charge (available only online) http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog/pdf/FG/FG46-E.pdf
EC 871, Vegetable Gardening in Oregon, Deborah Keane et al., revised August 2005, 16 pages, $3.00 http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog/pdf/EC/EC871.pdf
Manual 12, Ecology and Management of Eastern Oregon Forests: A Comprehensive Manual for Forest Managers. Preview document for new May 2005, 220 pages, $25.00 Authors: William H. Emmingham, Paul T. Oester, Stephen A. Fitzgerald, Gregory M. Filip, and W. Daniel Edge http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog/pdf/Manual/Manual12.pdf
Landmarks in Conservation DVD The Oregon State University Extension Service recently released "Landmarks in Conservation," a DVD designed to help rural landowners, farmers, ranchers and foresters develop sustainable natural resource plans for their operations.
A news release about the project is available at: http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ncs/newsarch/2005/Aug05/dvd.htm
Gardening with Oregon Native Plants West of the Cascades EC 1577, Gardening with Oregon Native Plants West of the Cascades, new October 2005, 36 pages, by Linda McMahan (low-resolution version available online, high-resolution version available on CD for $10.00) http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog/html.EC/EC1577
Watershed Stewardship Manual Goes Digital The hefty manual that has taught nearly 1,000 Oregonians how to protect and manage rivers, streams and wetlands has gone digital. "Watershed Stewardship: A Learning Guide" is now available on CD from the Oregon State University Extension Service. The digital format makes it easier and more affordable to share sections of the 450-page manual used in OSU Extension's Master Watershed Stewards program, a streamside learning program similar to the OSU Master Gardener program. Before any mention of hydrology, water quality or riparian habitat, the Learning Guide focuses on communicating effectively, developing dialogue and running a fair, open and honest meeting. It discusses "body language" and "active listening" and gives guidance for expressing and receiving anger. By addressing these human factors, the program has become a practical tool for consensus building. To date, Master Watershed Stewards have contributed more than 14,000 hours of restoration work in 25 locations across the state. News of the program's effectiveness has traveled far, drawing almost 300 inquiries from outside the state and around the world. International queries have come from Canada, Mexico, India, Pakistan and Botswana. Most are requests for assistance in setting up similar programs. The new CD will make it easier and more affordable to respond to future requests. "Watershed Stewardship: A Learning Guide" (publication number EM 8714-CD) can be purchased through OSU Extension and Experiment Station Communications at 800-561-6719 or email: puborders@oregonstate.edu. For complete information about the Master Watershed Steward program visit the OSU Watershed Extension website at: http://seagrant.oregonstate.edu/wsep/
Oregon 4-H Forestry Field Day Event & State 4-H Forestry Contest Guide Oregon 4-H Forestry Field Day Event And State 4-H Forestry Contest Guide is available on line on the State 4-H office website under Printed Materials. (click here for link) The 2006 event will be September 30 at the Oregon 4-H Center. It will be a one day event. Registration forms will be available on the State 4-H Office website. The guide is intended for the use of 4-H members, club leaders and event coordinators in preparing for, and participating in, Oregon's 4-H Forestry Field Day Event and State 4-H Forestry Contest. Participants in the Field Day may be Junior, Intermediate or Senior 4-H members. The Field Day is provided as an opportunity to learn and practice forestry skills. Leaders and parents are encouraged to attend the event with their youth. Participants in the contest may be Junior, Intermediate or Senior 4-H members. Only Senior members scores will be considered for selection for participation in the Oregon 4-H Forestry State Team. The top four individual Senior contest participants will be selected to train for, and attend, the National 4-H Forestry Invitational in West Virginia in 2007. Websites 4-H Corroboree Science Website Project “Corroboree” means gathering and symbolizes the spirit of an international education program. For 4-H Wildlife Stewards schools, Corroboree is an awesome winter weather way to keep involved! The interactive website (http://www.4hcorroboree.org) is designed to help youth and adults develop a new view of global sustainability and cultures. In Oregon and Australia teachers and students are exchanging ideas and data on their school’s science inquiry projects.
Schools can use their 4-H WS habitat as the source of information for the website. Oregon 4-H Natural Science project curricula and data collection sheets for: water monitoring, photo monitoring and habitats are utilized. By visiting these data bases, learners can see the types of water quality, wetlands and animals found on the opposite side of the ocean.
Use the Corroboree website for specific applications to your school’s needs. Posted lessons with life science content build student science inquiry skills. Get hands-on practice with some of the teaching tools so your school can become an international partner with the Corroboree AND achieve science benchmarks while enjoying the journey!
The Electronic Naturalist Site provides new teaching materials each week for 30 weeks during the school year covering a wide variety of information on animals and plants, interdisciplinary activities, various reading levels, and access to a professional naturalist via email. The Fire Electronic Field Trip In conjunction with the BLM WO and NIFC, the State Office/Regional Office has developed an "electronic field trip" called "Fire's Role in Ecosystems: A Hot Topic". It is geared towards K-8, however some high schools do utilize this site. It is national in scope and we plan on reaching over 10,000 students by the time we are finished. This field trip will be running for a few weeks, see schedule below. Please share this link with any schools you are working with and help spread the word!! If you have any questions please call me. If you are interested in developing a field trip for your site, I would be more than happy to tell you how we did it! It is an excellent tool for reaching students around the nation. The field trip can be found at: http://www.efieldtrips.org
Northwest Wildflower Coloring Book http://www.nps.gov/plants/color/northwest/index.htm It's a Northwest wildflower coloring book, though the drawings can be used for many other things. It's done by a Umatilla botanist, so it's oriented to plants east of the Cascades, though there was a lot I could use as well. Phenology Network www.learner.org/jnorth. It features a real-time phenology network, along with cooperative projects between US, Canada and Mexico,and many different forms of wildlife, along with lessons, activities etc. Phenology is the study of the annual cycles of plants and animals and how they respond to seasonal changes in their environment. Worth checking out! USDA Web Soil Survey site This site provides public access to the
national soils information system. On-line soil information is now available at: Center for Ecoliteracy http://www.ecoliteracy.org/index.html The Center for Ecoliteracy is dedicated to education for sustainable living. This website has many wonderful resources, tools, awards, and publications for educators and youth who are committed to education and sustainability. Check out this website and see some of the many resources. http://www.ecoliteracy.org/resources/index.html Career Exploration Website for Kids This is a fabulous career exploration website from Education Development Center, Inc.Kids of all ages will have fun exploring the different interactive sites. Cool Website on Spiders http://www.washington.edu/burke museum/spidermyth/index.html This has all the real facts about all the crazy things people believe about spiders. It is about misinformation and not spider mythology (like how arachnid came from the Greek legend about Arachne).Have you ever wondered if spiders bite at night? What about those daddy-long-legs with the most potent venom in the world that the kids tell you about? Find out the truth. Very useful for debunking myths and getting people to just relax about spiders. SciLinks Insights Curious About the Online Resources Your Colleagues are Using to Teach Science? NSTA’s SciLinks program links thousands of teachers and students to the best, most up-to-date teacher-approved web sites to support science instruction. While SciLinks is primarily offered through the pages of science textbooks and NSTA Press publications, NSTA members also have access to resources on several key topics. Among tens of thousands of searches conducted every month, a handful of topics are consistently the most popular. For a short period of time, NSTA Express is making some of these popular topics available for free to our readers. Select the links below and find some great new resources for your classroom teaching. Interested in learning more about SciLinks, visit their website listed above.
Portland Metro Tree Resoruces Links The city of Portland's Parks Department used to have a program and website dedicated to "historic" trees (mostly ornamentals) throughout the city. It had photos and other info. Check their main page or call them: http://www.portlandonline.com/parks/index.cfm?c=35300
Most cities have some tree codes regarding preservation and significant groves. City of Beaverton certainly does. General tree information: http://www.beavertonoregon.gov/departments/operations/operations_tree_removal.html Code infoformation : http://www.beavertonoregon.gov/departments/CDD/CDD_devcode_chap60.html Action for Nature http://www.actionfornature.org/ A great website for encouraging young people to take personal action to nurture and protect a healthy environment on which all life depends. "Earth: A Graphic Look at the State of the World" Recently published by the Global Education Project, a non profit educational foundation in British Columbia. Viewable on line at: www.theglobaleducationproject.org, this comprehensive resource summarizes the conditions of the world's ecology and humanity and how they effect each other. Visually and factually stunning, this publication is a valuable tool for anyone teaching about or striving to understand the world's complex environmental and humanitarian challenges. Earth Portal Earth portal is a comprehensive, free and dynamic resource for timely, objective, science-based information about the environment built by a global scientists, scholars, and professionals who have joined together to communicate to the world. Great Mapping Websites Google Sattellite Maps Here is a cool resource to have at my fingertips! Detailed street maps and satellite images of just about anywhere in the U.S. You can zoom in or out, click and drag across the landscape as if you're flying, and even overlay a street map on a satellite image. Printing is possible although limited in how large an area and when printing a map overlay, it may not print much at all on the paper. The satellite images may not be good for really fine scale mapping of individual sites, but for an overview of a park or a forest fragment, or to see where habitat connections could be made across the landscape, very good. Check it out. From the Google home page click on "more >>" and then chose Maps from the list. The USGS-sponsored TerraServer web site is also good, but this Google site has the edge in color coverage. Metro Habitat Mapping Program http://www.metro-region.org/article.cfm?articleid=8385 Another really good resource for those of you in Metro's service district is their habitat mapping program. If you type in an address it will give you maps that show canopy cover, aerials, water resources, and more.
Field Cards Willamette Valley Ecology Field Identification Cards and Educators Guide
Welcome to the world of the Douglas-fir Forest! Explore the variety of flora, fauna and fungus that inhabit this very common forest type in the Willamette Valley. In response to a need for locally relevant, outdoor educational materials for youth and adults, the Oregon State University Extension Service (Benton County) with assistance from the Oregon State University Forestry Media Center has developed the first in a series of six Ecology Field Identification Card Sets. Each set of field cards illustrates and describes 50 of the most common organisms (plants, fungi, birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians) found in different habitat types around the Willamette Valley. Also included are three situation or discussion cards to stimulate questions. Future sets will focus on oak woodlands, prairie, riparian bottomlands, wetlands, and urban habitats. An educational guide accompanies the Ecology Field Cards and includes educational activities for 4th-6th grade, focused on the biological concepts of biodiversity, interaction of species, carrying capacity, food webs, limiting factors and competition, as it relates to a Douglas-fir Forest and benchmarked to the Oregon Educational Standards. The guide also includes locations appropriate for field study, key terms for plant identification, glossary of terms and supplemental materials helpful for educators.
The goal of these educational materials is to bring the common species that inhabit the Willamette Valley in which students live into their classroom or field experience. Our hope is that by focusing on species they see, hear or smell, knowledge about their local flora, fauna and fungus will be piqued and the student interest and knowledge of their own region will increase. By becoming more familiar with species in local habitats students have the added opportunity to visit the site of these species and observe them in their native habitats.
This project was made possible by a Title III Federal Forestry grant and many scientists, educators, 4-H Wildlife Steward volunteers and community members who contributed ideas and photographic images. Cost for the Ecology Field Cards and Educators Guide is $35.00. Please include $5.00 for shipping and handling. To order a set visit the Benton County OSU Extension Service, 1849 NW 9th Street, Corvallis, OR 97330 541-766-6750 or visit our website at: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/benton/ 2nd Set of Ecology Cards Now Available! Contact: Benton County OSU Extension Service
Gardening for Wildlife: Native Plant Flashcards This “must have” resource for gardeners is filled with detailed information on 40 top-notch native plants, a handy reference for poison oak identification and tips for gardening for birds, butterflies and the earth. The plants, organized by plant community (wetland, savannah, prairie and coniferous forests), are kid-safe with non-toxic or edible berries. Beautiful color photographs, botanical illustrations and keys indicating sun exposure, water needs and wildlife value adorn the front of each plant card. The reverse side features a wealth of fully researched information—including some never before published—on landscape uses, transplanting and maintenance care, habitat value and propagation methods. TO ORDER OR PICK UP YOUR CARDS
|
||||||
_____________________________________________ COPYRIGHT 2002. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. |
||||||
 |
||||||
