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Jones Farm Youth Education - Resources and Links
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Straw Bale Construction
http://www.greenbuilder.com/sourcebook/strawbale.html
http://www.thefarm.org/charities/i4at/lib2/strwbale.htm
Composting
The Rodale Book of Composting, Martin, Deborah L. and Gershuny, Grace, Rodale Press ISBN0-87857-990-7
The WoodlandsBooks
These books are available in the Oberlin Public Library
How the Forest Grew,
Jaspersohn, William ISBN 0-688-80232-X
Forest Succession
The Forest Grew
Butler, Daphne ISBN 0-8368-0506-2
Tree Trunk Traffic; Animal Life on a Seventy Year Old Maple Tree
Lavies, Bianca ISBN 0-525-44495-S
An excellent pre-read for the 2nd grade lesson. This is the approximate
age of the trees at the Jones Farm!! A great intro to woodland animals.
Woodlands
Stone, Lynn ISBN 0-86593-422-3
Trees, Eyewitness Books
Burne, David ISBN 0-394-89617-3
Young Scientists Concepts and Projects: Trees,
Mellett, Peter ISBN 0-8368-2087-8
Excellent resource that provides an overview of trees, their parts, how
they
grew, varieties, and how we use trees and their products.
Temperate Deciduous Forest
Sayre, April Pulley ISBN 0-8050-2828-5
The Meadow
Watch Out, Its Poison Ivy!
Limburg, Peter ISBN 0-671-325641-7
Grass and Grasshoppers, Describes grasses and Animal
Life in a grass meadow.
Wyler, Rose
The Milkweed and Its World of Animals, Excellent
book on meadow microhabitat.
Graham, Frank and Ada ISBN 0-385-09932-2
Bees
The Honey Bee in the Meadow,Describes Appearance,
Life Cycle, social order and Activities of honey bees that live in the meadow.
Web Links
Bees
http://www.honey.com/kids/facts.html -
Honey Bee Facts
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/insects/label/bee.shtml -
Blank Bee Diagram
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/insects/bee
Honeybeecoloring.shtml - Honey Bee Diagram Key
Wetlands
http://vathena.arc.nasa.gov/curric/land/wetland/ttalk.html -
This is an amazing wetlands website
http://mbgnet.mobot.org/fresh/wetlands/
http://www.epa.gov/owow/wetlands/
http://www.epa.gov/region5/water/wshednps/topic_wetlands_ecosystem.htm
http://www.idahoptv.org/dialogue4kids/wetlands/facts.html