Links Page - Spring Into Life

Animals

Animal Studies Unit - Hotlist of websites from Greentown Elementary School in North Canton, Ohio with lots of neat places on the Internet to learn about animals, habitats, and food chains.

Baby Animals Storybook - A wonderful online storybook for young children by Lillian M. Parker. This gentle Springtime story is a delight!

Bees

Honey.com - Here are honey bee facts, trivia, history and games for kids!

Birds

The Great Backyard Bird Count Bird Identification Guide - The Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology brings you an identification guide full of images, sounds, and text that will help you better identify birds.

National Audubon Society State Chapters - Find your state on this list and follow the links!

Operation Ruby Throat - Here is a wonderful site that includes interactive activities, lesson ideas and a collaborative projecton hummingbirds.

Bunnies

House Rabbit Network - Here is a wonderful site Specializing in Rabbit Education and Adoption in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Connecticut.

Butterflies

The Children's Butterfly Site - This marvelous site provides a coloring page that shows the life cycle of the Monarch, the Butterfly and Moth Life Cycle, Activities with Butterflies, and Teacher Resources. You'll also find some hot-links to other World Wide Web sites that will provide additional information about these fascinating insects. Be sure to view the Gallery of Butterfly photographs!

The Life Cycle of the Butterfly - Lanise Jacoby's marvelous unit is worth visiting! Activities and links abound. Great job Lanise!

Insects (General)

Insectclopedia - Need I say more? Everything you could possibly want to know about bugs is here!

Ant Boy's Bugworld - This is not just about ants, but many kinds of insects!

I Like Bugs! - Wonderful ideas for a thematic unit centering around the Focus Story: I Like Bugs!
by Margaret Wise Brown.

Ladybugs

Going Buggy with Ladybugs! - suggested books and website links, along with songs, poems, and activities the author has used in her classroom. She requests that you feel free to use anything you find on this page in your own class, and please be sure to put the author's name on any poems or songs that you reproduce.

Ladybugs in the Schoolyard - What a treasure this site is! Everything from Ladybug anatomy to Ladybug games...Mrs. Seagrave from Montgomery Public Schools in Montgomery, Alabama has put together a resource that you will use again and again with your students.

Plants

Why Do Plants Have Flowers? - A very nice page explaining how the transfer of pollen between flowers helps flowers form seeds.

Life Cycles of Plants: Growing Through Changes - Dandelion Life Cycle, Plant Life Cycle, Maple Life Cycle, Bees, Bees & Pollination, How do Bees Pollinate, Games, Storybook and much, much, more!

State Specific Links for Plants and Animals

eNature.com - a WONDERFUL resource for research! An on-line field guide that uses your zip code to create an area-specific field guide for native plants and animals.

EEK! (Environmental Education for Kids) - Information about Plants and Animals for kids from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.

Natural Ohio - Learn more about Ohio's insects, fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds and mammals from the Ohio Kids! site.

Just For Kids - from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources

MASS Wildlife - Lists of plants and animals found in Massachusetts.

California's Plants & Animals - from the California Department of Fish and Game Habitat Conservation Planning Branch

Missouri Kids - from the Missouri Department of Conservation.

State Wildlife Home Pages - Hot list of links to official Department of Wildlife websites across the nation.

Earth Day Theme Units & Activities

Earth Day at Kids Domain - The folks at Kids Domain suggest that we celebrate Earth Day every day! Earth Day is celebrated on April 22 in the United States. Be good to the Earth. Use this site to learn more about the history of Earth Day, play some Online Games, sing Earth Songs, and get busy with Coloring Pages, Word Searches, Earth Day Activities. They have some great links to "Other Earth Day Sites and Ideas" here too!

Spring Theme Units & Activities

Spring Theme Unit from ABCTeach.com - Theme units from this site are always high quality, and the Spring Theme Unit is no exception! ABCTeach.com's strength is in their wealth of "printables." This unit consists of loads of General Activities (such as Flower Phonics, Poem Forms and more), the template for a Spring Creative Writing Booklet, Coloring Pages, Shape Book Patterns, and more. Be sure to investigate the additional Units near the bottom of this page...April, Bees, Butterflies, Ladybugs and Plants!

Springtime Online from Education World - Does spring fever have your students all a-buzz? Use their boundless energy to help them learn about the bees -- and the flowers and the seeds -- as these Education World activities bring spring into your classroom and your curriculum. Included are activities for primary students, activities for students in grades three and above, and activities for all ages!

Mrs. Anderson's Kindergarten of "Signs Spring" Unit - Mrs. Anderson, who teaches at Wheeless Road Elementary in Georgia, has generously shared her lessons, art projects, songs, poetry, book list and much, much more! You'll be sure to find ideas to enhance your lower elementary Spring theme here.