Web Resources
Naturally Curious by Mary Holland
http://naturallycuriouswithmaryholland.wordpress.com/
An amazing naturalist and photographer of New England Wildlife. The highest quality of Nature-Mentoring you can receive (on-line that is!)
Nature Skills.com
Nature Skills.com is an online resource for mentors and educators largely sponsored by the Wilderness Awareness School in Duvall, WA. Their mission is to make available to every one quality nature skills, sometimes known as primitive skills. This site contains great illustrated instructions for many activities.
Wilderness Awareness School
http://www.wildernessawareness.org
Founded by Jon Young, author of Coyote’s Guide to Connecting With Nature, this school offers further resources and education to those interested in learning more about the art of cultural mentoring, as well as courses for youth.
Society of Primitive Technology
Within this site the educator will find a collection of archived data from the Society of Primitive Technologies past publications. This data is rich in detailed instructions around different primitive skills.
Shelburne Farms Education Programs
http://www.shelburnefarms.org/educationprograms/index.shtm
Shellburn Farms is a member supported, and conservation minded, education farm located in Shelburn Vermont. Set on 400 acres Shelburn Farms offers resources for families and classrooms. Teachers may gain access to professional development through their many workshops offered each year. Shelburn Farms has partnered with many organizations to develop some of the following projects: Forest for Every Classroom, The Sustainable Schools Project, and P.L.A.C.E.
P.L.A.C.E.
Place Based Landscape Analysis & Community Education
A Parnership between the University of Vermont and Shelburn Farms, PLACE is dedicated to helping teachers better teach the analysis of their local bioregion using the idea of landscape analysis with a scope on the physical, cultural, and ecological. PLACE hopes to have “address to become as familiar as one’s zip code, and eco-regional identity as intrinsic as county of residence.”
Forest for Every Classroom
http://www.nps.gov/mabi/forteachers/forest-for-every-classroom.htm
FFEC is a place-based professional development resource for educators desiring to learn more about place-based and out-door education possibilities for their classroom. The site includes many postings of sample curriculum that may be downloaded by any one. FFEC is a partner ship of private and public programs including, but not limited to, Shelburn Farms, Marsh Billings-Rockafeller National Historical Park, and Green Mountain National Forest.
The Adirondack Curriculum Project
http://www.adkcurriculumproject.org
The Adirondack Curriculum Project is a New York State Based non-profit resource committed to curriculum design and activity planing resources revolving around the ecology of the Adirondack Mountain region and the Lake Champlain Watershed. This site includes well organized and navigable layouts of curriculum that can be approached in searches specified by state standards, grade level, subject area, and specific activity. Though this is based out of the state of New York the activities still apply to much of the Vermont/Green Mountain Bioregions,
Valley Quest
http://www.vitalcommunities.org/valleyquest/valleyquest.htm
Valley Quest is an award winning program that offers resources around questing, an activity that reconnects children to their natural history and sense of place through creation of, and discovery through, local exploration.
Other Web Resources Regarding New England Natural History
New England Wildflower Society
Southern Vermont Natural History Museum
Fairbanks Museum in St. Johnsburry
