Nature Conservancy
Nature Works Everywhere: Tips for Starting a School Garden
Find a useful guide to help start a school garden. Kids will dig the class project!
Nature Conservancy
Nature Works Everywhere: Rain Garden Resources
Find some tips on how to plant a rain garden to help filter and absorb rain.
Practical Action
Practical Action: Floating Garden Challenge
In this unit, students will learn about the difficulty that farmers in Bangladesh and the UK experience trying to grow crops on land that is regularly flooded. Then they will be challenged to make a model of a structure that can float to...
British Library
British Library: 20th Century Works: The Garden Party and Other Stories
Read an overview of "The Garden Party and Other Stories" by Katherine Mansfield and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Habitat Network: Install Edible Gardens
Find out the benefits of planting a garden that provides a sustainable source of food for people.
Other
Garden With Insight: Vapor Pressure in the Garden
Basic information about the role of vapor pressure in the garden. In addition, a free garden simulator can be downloaded in which various quantities can be measured.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Buds and Blossoms From Our Own Garden
A scanned copy of the 1852 publication of Buds and Blossoms from our Own Garden by Francis Channing Woodworth, a book of stories for children.
Repeat After Us
Repeat After Us: I Haven't Told My Garden Yet
A poem from Emily Dickinson, "I Haven't Told My Garden Yet --", is provided on this site. Students may listen to this poem read aloud by Jeff Kiok and can access a printable version of this piece.
Nature Conservancy
Nature Works Everywhere: Native Habitat Garden Tip Sheet
All regions grow special plants naturally which attract specific creatures. This tip sheet will help guide planters to selecting native plants for an area.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "The Occasional Garden" by H. H. Munro
Text of the short story "The Occasional Garden" by Scottish author H. H. Munro. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Habitat Network: Pollinators at Home: Intro to Pollinator Gardening
Find out how to provide native plants that foster the activity of insects and other pollinators.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Habitat Network: Irrigation Conservation for Trees, Shrubs, Gardens, and Lawn
Find out how to provide the proper amount of water for optimal growth and biodiversity in a backyard habitat.
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Grounds Maintenance Workers
This resource offers insite to various ground maintenance occupations. Includes information on jobs such as landscaping, groundskeeping, nursery, greenhouse, and lawn service.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Additional Poems by h.d.
This site houses full texts of numerous poems by the American poet Hilda Doolittle. Among the poems are "Sheltered Garden," "Sea Poppies," and "Cities," to name just a few.
British Library
British Library: Discovering Literature:romantics&victorians Popular Culture
From circuses and 'freak shows' to broadsides and novels, from pleasure gardens and music halls to chapbooks and penny dreadfuls, Georgian and Victorian Britain offered the public a rich range of affordable entertainments. Read more...
Other
A Virtual Tour of St. Petersburg, Russia
Take a virtual tour of St. Petersburg, Russia. See the Peter and Paul Fortress, the cabin of Peter the Great, the summer garden and summer palace of Peter the Great, the Stock Exchange and Rostral Columns, the Menshikov Palace, the...
Academy of American Poets
Poets.org: Robert Lowell
A biographical site on poet Robert Lowell from the Academy of American Poets. With a list of his poems, prose, anthologies and dramas. Includes links to a collection of poems, including the Skunk Hour and The Public Garden, available in...
PBS
Pbs: The Story of Jazz
A supplement to a ten-part film series on jazz, this resource describes the growth and development of jazz music from the gritty streets of New Orleans to the Lincoln Gardens on Chicago's south side, where Louis Armstrong first won fame,...
British Library
British Library: 20th Century: Literature 1900 1950
Explore key literary works of the early 20th- century with these articles.
British Library
British Library: 20th Century: Capturing and Creating the Modern
Discover the ways in which writers captured the fast-changing world around them during the 20th Century.
Other
Eudora Welty Foundation: The House
Features the home and garden of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Eudora Welty. The house, a National Historic Landmark, is built in the Tudor Style. Site also includes Welty's biography.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Habitat Network: The Seven Principles of Xeriscape
Find out how landscapers are using a gardening technique that uses little water.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: Claude Monet
This site presents a detailed biography of Claude Monet, as well as images of many of his works. His work is broken into numerous sub-sections for display purposes, and many include detailed accounts of the work.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: Peter Paul Rubens
This site, which is provided for by the WebMuseum Paris, provides a brief but factual biography of Peter Paul Rubens with links to Rubens's contemporaries and work. Also you can link to a page that describes the Baroque Style.
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