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Wetlands and Rainforests and Prairies

Inexpensive shareware and a rainforest screensaver can be obtained at Sylvan...

Terrene is an advocacy group for preserving these micro-climates.

The Rainforest Alliance helps people of all ages to understand the role that each one of us plays in biodiversity conservation, and provides both lesson plans and resources.

Prairies, while not as startling at first glance as rainforests, say, cover a huge amound of the earth's lands. At the Bell Museum viewers can actually build a prairie from scratch with plants and animals which must be comptible with that environment. It is a very fun site for lower elementary students.

Virtually the whole country of Costa Rica is an eco-friendly environment. Study the poison dart frog in its rainforest.

And for snakes (2000 species worldwide) look at Snake Tracks.

The newly opened California Academy of Sciences exhibits a four story rainforest with many micro-ecologies. Take-home kits widen the student base.

Because such environments are bounded, they serve as fertile study targets.