Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Seasonal Changes of a Tree
For this activity, young scholars adopt a tree in the schoolyard and observe it throughout the year, recording the changes that they notice as the seasons pass. They will learn about the parts of the tree and notice how the tree is used...
Other
Arizona Game and Fish Department: Small Game Hunting Season Information
Two articles. The first looks at the different small game species that are hunted in Arizona, and which ones are flourishing and which ones not as much. Includes squirrels, rabbits, and a variety of birds. The second article presents...
Other
Ny Department of Environmental Conservation: Small Game Seasons
Information on the regulations for the approved seasons to hunt a variety of small game in New York State, e.g. quail, cottontail rabbits, and squirrels.
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Seasonal Observations: Winter
The shortest day of the year, or the winter solstice, marks the beginning of this season usually occurs around December 21. Bundle up because winter is a fantastic time to track animals and explore the outdoors!
WebMD
Web Md: Airborne Allergens
This site from WebMD Health provides an article entitled, "Something in the Air: Airborne Allergens". Includes detailed information on why some people are allergic to certain substances, while others are not. Symptoms of airborne...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Hero Elementary: Super Seasons Snapshots
Children can look around to practice making observations and to notice details they might otherwise not notice. There are scenes for each season - spring, summer, fall, and winter. Explore a park to learn how animals and plants change...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Watching the Seasons Change: Fall
This is an appropriate resource for investigating the impact seasonal change has on organisms. Have your students track the changes that come with fall by journaling. The online table addresses physical changes in the environment...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Watching the Seasons Change: Spring
This is an appropriate resource for investigating the impact seasonal change has on organisms. Have your students track the changes that come with spring by journaling. The online table addresses physical changes in the environment...
Can Teach
Can Teach: Songs and Poems
This site features an extensive list of poems and songs for every event during the school year. Explore the seasons, colors, holidays, and more.
Other
North Dakota Game and Fish Department: Small Game Hunting Guide
A detailed guide of regulations for hunting various small game in North Dakota. Covers seasons, hunting methods, animal identification, federal laws, poacher reporting, and much more. Each type of small game is accompanied by a map...
Texas Parks and Wildlife
Texas Parks and Wildlife: Outdoor Annual: Hunting
Everything one would need to know about hunting in Texas. Hunting by season, animal, or county is covered, regulations and legal issues, hunter educational programs, species that can't be hunted, and licensing.
Other
Australian Tourism: Facts and Planning
This is the official website for Australian tourism. It presents facts about Australia's geography, weather and climate, time zones, currency, and plants and animals, accompanied by excellent imagery. A useful feature of this page is...
Curated OER
Bureau of Land Management: Alaska's Cold Desert
Learn about the Arctic tundra biome of Alaska. A discussion of its characteristics, and the animals and the plants that live there.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Earth and Sky: Spring Comes to the Desert
Learn about springtime in the desert and the plants and animals that live there. Book includes audio narration in 20 additional languages with text in English.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Themepark: Cycles
This is a large collection of resources on cycles of nature and the Earth. There is a constant exchange of the elements between air, earth, water, plants, and animals. Most biological processes wind up back where they started. These...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Learning the Effects of Weather
Learn how weather affects people and animals.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Animals for Kids: Animal Migrations
Kids learn about Animal Migrations. How animals travel for miles across the land, air, and sea for the changing seasons.
Other
Yamaha: Papercrafts
Downloadable PDF papercraft (origami) patterns for motorcycles, animals, and seasonal Japanese materials. Patterns include sophisticated designs that will definitely require skill to complete.
Other
Canadian Arctic Profiles
Detailed sections providing further information on the Canadian Arctic's exploration, climate, maps, migration, and indigenous people, make this resource useful for many topics. Put together with images, this resource is useful for high...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Monarch Migration
This video from Nature features the start of the monarch butterfly's northward trek. [3:02]
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Unit: Grade 1: The Year at Maple Hill Farm
First graders learn about change over the course of a year, investigating and exploring the four seasons and what the changing seasons mean for humans and animals. They learn about animal behavior and patterns during the seasons,...
Other
E Regulations: New York Hunting & Trapping Digest: Small Game Hunting
Explains the hunting regulations for New York, the kinds of weapons that are permitted for each type of small game, special hunting permits, and dates for the hunting seasons for each animal. Includes charts that have all this...
PBS
Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Temperate Deciduous Forests
NatureWorks offers some fascinating information about the Temperate Deciduous Forests. Students and teachers will learn what makes these forests special, what animals live in this biome, what plants grow in this biome, and more.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Climate Change and Vector Borne Disease
Vector-borne diseases are transmitted typically by the bite of an infected arthropod. Climate plays an important role in the seasonal pattern or temporal distribution of diseases that are carried and transmitted through vectors because...