Web Evaluations

I know everyone is going to be working on Web Evaluations this week ( I did this assignment last semester) so I wanted to let you know the sites I used early because there can be no duplications. I used the following sites:

http://urbanext.illinois.edu/firstgarden/

http://www.garden.org

http://www.extension.iastate.edu/GrowingintheGarden

The first two are really good sites but the last one is not really for use with students. I found a lot of really cool sites that I did not use but thought I would share. Some are Garden Projects already in existence at schools across the country and others I found while doing the Virtual Field Trips assignment. I found the Garden Projects while I was working on the ePals and Google maps assignment last semester. Since I am not submitting any of them as part of these assignments, I thought they might be helpful to the group.

http://www.edibleschoolyard.org/

http://www.efn.org/~sgp/

http://www.kidsgardening.org/ (This site can be found as part of or linked to the garden.org website but it has links to many schools who are doing gardening projects and are willing to share seeds and communicate via ePals. I used it to find 4 schools for the ePals and Google Maps assignment that is due next week. You can view the work we did on that assignment at http://edt3470gardening2.blogspot.com/2010/02/epal-description-module-4.html. The Google map is just below it. Obviously we do not have to go this route, but it may be a place to start for ideas.)

On the urbanext.illinois.edu site there is another game that I found during the virtual field trip assignment called, "The Great Plant Escape." It helps students learn about plants parts and structure, plus what plants need to grow.

http://gardeninglaunchpad.com/kids.html (This site has links to tons of different sites that are about kids and gardening.)

There are also some really good math and science activities that relate to our project at www.uen.org. The ones I looked at specifically were "Ecology Grid," "Real Life Math," and "Biomes of North America."

I just thought I would share some of these so you could see more of what I am learning. It would be great if you would also share the websites you are viewing so I can learn from those as well.