Use this Field Guide to Birds from the PBS Kids series Molly of Denali to identify and learn more about birds in your neighborhood. Then seek out additional information and create your own pages to add to Molly's guide.

The dinosaur train field guide is an A-Z glossary of dinosaurs for younger children. Each dinosaur has a colorful picture, and tabs showing an x-ray, a size comparison, the food it eats and some facts about it. The text is accompanied by...

During this project, students will be working cooperatively to create a field guide of trees in the neighborhood near the school. Students will make observations of trees near the school. They will then learn about tree anatomy and...

Students gather information and create a botanic field guide which includes the common and scientific names for plants (trees, shrubs, wildflowers, plants) typically found in their surroundings.

An interesting activity where students observe and identify the trees in the schoolyard, then create a field guide for others to use.

Using communication skills, research skills, and thinking skills the students collaboratively create a field guide to Minnesota Animals.

American Field Guide is a tremendous resource for you and your students. Embedded within this site you will find lesson plans that weave segments of video together into units of inquiry around specific topics. The lessons in the units of...

Uncover the evolutionary past of the mysterious bats. Find out about their amazing ability to use sonar, the threat of rabies they carry, and conservation efforts to save the species.

This field guide was created by 2nd graders in Springfield, Massachusetts. It was part of a two-month Learning Expedition that included field observation and collection, classroom experimentation and research, reading from books and...

3rd grade students in Springfield, Massachusetts created this field guide as part of a learning expedition on ecosystems and pond life. Students did fieldwork in the city park and worked with local experts, closely examining the ponds....

This micro-field guide was created by 5th and 6th graders in Marlboro, Vermont. Groups of 3 or 4 students worked together to investigate their own 3 by 3 foot research plot, over multiple visits, and then created a field guide to their...

The Field Guide to Local Amphibians was created by 4th graders in Shutesbury, Massachusetts. It was created as one aspect of a three-month Learning Expedition on amphibians. Students collected town data for a statewide amphibian census;...

An online field guide entitled Trees are for Everybody by kindergarten students at the Capital City Public Charter School in Washington, D.C. The book contains student observations, photographs, and original illustrations which provide...

Students use digital photographs and research to create a two-page field guide to be used as a reference sheet when completing field observations at the pond next to the school.

After researching and observing life in a local vernal pool, students write and illustrate a field guide including digital photographs and original water colors.

Students create a field guide for a three foot by three foot plot of ground. Students name their plots, graph temperature, create an inventory and table to record observations, make illustrations, and write informational text based on...

Ocean Oasis is a giant-screen film that depicts Mexico's Sea of Cortes and the Baja California desert. This companion site features much of the information the film has, such as beautiful images of animals, water, and land that have...

A look at what fossil evidence reveals about the life and ecological interactions of the lambeosaurus dinosaur.

Written in an Adobe PDF file, this publication teaches about basic weather phenomena and how to recognize advancing severe weather systems in real time.

Thorough guide to the scientific study of the Great Crested Newt, written by an expert in the field of herpetology (the study of amphibians and reptiles).

Use this guide to help you identify signs from different animals in the wilderness. Identify tracks, chew marks, signs from animals that build, eggs, and the like.

This article, originally published in Skeptical Inquirer, outlines some of the key components of the scientific problem-solving process while addressing the many reasons for the popularity of paranormal beliefs in the U.S. (Published in...

A look at what fossil evidence reveals about the life and ecological interactions of the extinct brain coral.

A look at what fossil evidence reveals about life and ecological interactions of the extinct dire wolf.