During May, 2004, the Nature Club helped plant the Irving School Prairie Garden.

Here are some links to educational Web sites and other resources about tallgrass prairies in Illinois and other Midwestern states.

The Build-a-Prairie online game, from Bell Museum in Minnesota, is fun to play for students who can read (or for younger students with adult help):
   < http://www.bellmuseum.org/distancelearning/prairie/index.html >

Summer Prairie Wildflowers and Grasses of Illinois is an online version of a poster that's available free to teachers:
   < http://dnr.state.il.us/lands/education/habitatposter/summer.htm >

      Teachers can go to this site for information about the prairie poster and other free educational materials from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources:
      < http://dnr.state.il.us/lands/education/CLASSRM/Edmats02.htm >

Midewin Activities for Classrooms are prairie-related lessons developed by the Chicago Academy of Science with assistance from Chicago-area school teachers:
   < http://www.openlands.org/midewin/table.htm >

Prairie animal printouts and information from Enchanted Learning:
   < http://www.enchantedlearning.com/biomes/grassland/prairie.shtml >

Illinois Prairies, from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, provides background information and word games that seem appropriate for the middle elementary grades.
   < http://dnr.state.il.us/lands/education/prairie/games.htm >

Prairie in Illinois, by the Illinois State Museum, provides background information and activities for teachers and older students:
   < http://www.museum.state.il.us/muslink/prairie/index.html >

Prairies in the Prairie State, by the Illinois State Museum, includes information about Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, a prairie preserve being developed south of Joliet, Illinois:
   < http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/midewin/index.html >

The Tallgrass Prairie in Illinois, by Kenneth Roberts of the University of Illinois, provides background information for teachers and older students:
   < http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/~kenr/tallgrass.html >
  

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