For more information about the East Texas Chapter venue for meetings visit the Discovery Science Place website. Science is their middle name.
Organizational Links
Texas Master Naturalist
Agri-Life Bookstore
Recycle guide
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Bat Conservency
Native Plant Society
Texas Nature Conservation
Texas Invasivies
Useful Apps and Tools |
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| Oh, Ranger – ParkFinder! Find the parks nearest you with the activities you want to do. Incorporates a comprehensive database of every national park, state park and federal public land in America. | . |
Texas Range and Pasture Plants: Field guide provides a valuable resource to understand, study, use, protect, and appreciate key range and pasture plants of Texas. | . |
| All Trails: Browse through over 40,000 high-quality trail guides for outdoor activities including everything from hiking and mountain biking to fly fishing and snowshoeing. | . |
Audubon Nature – Texas: Learn to identify everything from birds and fishes to spiders and sea creatures with professional photographs, bird songs, range maps and more.. | . |
| Star Walk: Star Walk enables you to point your iPhone at the sky and see what stars, constellations, and satellites you are looking at in real-time. | . |
iBird Explorer South: Search by shape, size, habitat, color, family, song, length, weight, flight pattern wingspan, and much more. | . |
| Leafsnap: This free mobile app uses visual recognition software to help identify tree species from photographs of their leaves. | |||
Nature Calls – Outdoor Classrooms, fun ideas, projects, play, etc.
Texas State Strategic Plan — http://txcinc.wordpress.com/about-us/stateplan/
Texas Children in Nature — http://txcinc.wordpress.com/
Green Ribbon Schools – http://www.greenribbonschools.org/
Restore Active Play and Learning in Nature for Texas Children — http://txcinc.wordpress.com/2012/07/23/estore-active-play-and-learning-in-nature-for-texas-children/
National Wildlife ..http://www.nwf.org/What-We-Do/Kids-and -Nature Programs.aspx
Nature Rocks — http://www.naturerocks.org/
Project WILD and Conservation Educationhttp://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/publications/learning/project_wild/
Project WILD – http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/calendar/project-wild-growing-up-wild-workshops — List of Project WILD workshops
Everything below is found at http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us
under Kids or Learning
Outdoor Learning
General Information
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- Frankie the Free-tailed Bat
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- Texas Tracks (Animal Tracks)
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- The Endangered Species Activity Book
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- The Indian Years Coloring Book
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- Texas Wildlife Coloring Book
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- Typical Freshwater Habitats Leaflet
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- Full-page size journal
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- Small-size journal
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Arts and Crafts Animal Masks
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- Houston Toad Mask
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- Monarch Butterfly Mask
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- Ocelot Mask
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- Salamander Hat
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- Salamander Mask
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- Swift Fox Mask
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- Texas Horned Lizard Mask
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- Ruby-throated Hummingbird Mask
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Naturalist’s Activities for Kids
Pottery Reconstruction Puzzle
Students will reconstruct a pot and learn to: Match pieces according to their provenience (location within the archeological grid) and characteristics of the pieces; Describe the vessel’s attributes once it is reconstructed.
Draw Your Own Rock Art
Students will draw their own rock art and learn to: Interpret the images of others; Express ideas and communicate through illustrations.
How to Make a Plant Press
Step by step instructions for creating and using a plant press to dry plant specimens.
Analyze a Picture
Learn the difference between fact and inference by interpreting photos.
Nature Calls
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| Ranger Rick Goes Digital Interactive Magazine for Kids . |
http://www.nwf.org/treehouse |
| “WFSCAgriLIfe” Youtube Channel from The Wildlife and Fisheries Unit of Texas A&M AgriLIfe Extension . |
http://www.youtube.com/user/WFSCAgriLife |
| Top 100 Forestry Resources See the forest for the trees . |
http://forestrydegree.net/top-100-resources/ |
| Volunteer “Citizen Scientists“ Detect invasive species and Report . |
www.texasinvasives.org/invaders/ www.invasives.fws.gov/ |
| Copperhead Snakes All you ever wanted to know . |
http://www.copperhead-snake.com/ |
| National Phenology Network of Citizen Scientists Collect observations of plants and animals that interest you and report them to a national database. . |
www.usanpn.org/participate |
| Hawk Watch Comparing hawk numbers from year to year reveals trends that offer insight into the well-being of the environment in both the breeding and wintering areas. . |
http://www.hawkwatch.org/ |
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| Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Participants may count as littleas fifteen minutes a day or all day for four days. “It’s free, fun, & easy — and it helps the birds.” . |
http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc |
| Volunteer “Citizen Scientists“ Detect invasive species and Report . |
www.texasinvasives.org/invaders/ |
| Geocaching at Texas State Parks – A treasure hunt using GPS or app on smartphone . |
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/activities/outdoor_recreation/geocache/ |
| Bat Research Annual Internation Conference (August) . |
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| Annual Monarch Migration (Fall & March) Journey North is a free Citizen Science Project to Observe and Report each week Monarch sightings. . |
http://www.learner.org/cgi-bin/jnorth/jn-sightings |
Nature Calls
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| Birdhouse Building Guidelines – Instructions. | http://www.birdsandblooms.com/Backyard-Projects/Birdhouses/Birdhouse-Guidelines/ |
| Four-Chamber bat Nursery House – The Bat House Builder’s Handbook plans -instructions. | http://www.batcon.org/pdfs/bathouses/FourChamberNurseryHousePlans.pdf |
| Benefits of Planting Native Trees, Organic Gardening Native trees can cope with native pests. | http://www.organicgardening.com/learn-and-grow/trees-organicgardens |
| Earth Watch – The coolest space and science facts! | http://www.youtube.com/spacelab?feature=inp-hp-space |
| International Observe the Moon Night (Sep) – Join Amateur & Professional Astronomers under the moon. | https://moon.nasa.gov/observe-the-moon-night/about/overview/ |
| Native plants in your yard helps wildlife – Learn some of the top native plants for your area | http://blog.nwf.org/2012/09/learn-the-top-native-plants-for-your-backyard/ |
Nature Calls
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| The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center/ Native American Seed Grants K-12 . |
http://www.wildflower.org/wildflowers/ |
| Nature Play Home Guide – NWF & Natural Learning Initiative on how to create simple nature play spaces in domestic outdoor spaces . |
http://www.nwf.org/Home/Get-Outside/Be-Out-There/Why-Be-Out-There/Policy/Natural-Play-Areas.aspx |
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