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BTNEP Educational Curricula, Activities, and CDs | | All materials are available by contacting sandra@btnep.org. Highlighted and underlined items are available for immediate download right from this page. | | BTNEP Educational Curricula and Activities | NEW! A Schoolhouse View of the Estuary "A Schoolhouse View of the Estuary" is designed to be used by classroom teachers in grades K-12. Divided by grade levels with lessons, activities, maps and more for teachers to share with students, this CD is easy to navigate. You can visit an elementary classroom, a middle school classroom, or a high school science lab to learn more about Louisiana wetlands. | 
| Spirit of the Estuary: Using Art to Understand Ecology It's here! Our most beautiful curriculum so far! This curriculum is ideal for students in grades 6 through 12. BTNEP has made this curriculum entirely downloadable. |
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| Educator's Guide to the Barataria-Terrebonne Estuary A comprehensive educator's guide. Educators will find activities and a multitude of resources for their students. The Guide is divided into 5 sections. Each lesson is a separate PDF file which you can download. |
| EstuaryLIVE! 2003 EstuaryLIVE! 2003 is part of the annual celebration of National Estuaries Day, increasing awareness of the extraordinary but fragile coastal wetlands of America. Each year interactive virtual field trips are accessable via the internet to classrooms and individuals around the country (www.estuarylive.org). This EstuaryLIVE! 2003 video and the related activities (EstuaryLive! Lessons) tell the timeless story of Louisiana's expansive, vibrant estuary where spirit of place mixes with the heart of its people. Click here to download the EstuaryLIVE! Video Activity Sheet. |
| Wild Plants of the Wetlands
This is a K-4 science curriculum designed to introduce teachers and students to wetland environments with experiments and activities that can be coordinated with field trips to the National Park: Jean Lafitte Historical Park and Preserve http://www.nps.gov/jela/.
All material is aligned with Louisiana GLEs. |
| When You Were My Age Oral history interview technigues and information on the Bayou Lafourche Oral History Project. LA Grade Level Expectations for 8th Grade. Click When You Were My Age to download(PDF 380 k). Pages are meant to be printed front and back in the order they download. Staple down the center for a completed booklet. |
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| | | Lafourche Parish From the Beginning | This comprehensive guide to Lafourche Parish, it's history, culture, and resources, is designed for students in grades 6 through 12. There are many fun activities that will help students to better understand this important Louisiana parish. Available now for online download! |
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| WETMAAP: Golden Meadow and Cocodrie. Interested in using satellite images, habitat (groundcover) maps, and topographic maps to learn about the Louisiana coast? Check out WETMAAP (Wetland Education Through Maps and Aerial Photography). BTNEP paid the WETMAAP team to create materials on two well-known locations within the Estuary: Golden Meadow and Cocodrie (location of Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium). On the main page, click on the site you wish to learn more about. |
| Vanishing Wetlands, Vanishing Future This zany video on the BTNEP seven priority problems is in the style of "Bill Nye the Science Guy" and is best suited for middle school, though the vocabulary is applicable to high school topics. Click here for Middle School Guide Click here for High School Guide |
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| Haunted Waters, Fragile Lands-
Oh, What Tales to Tell! An award winning documentary on the cultural, geologic, and environmental history of the Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary System. Four 15-minute segments: The Many Peoples; Frontlands and Backlands; Trembling Prairies; Life from Water, Death from Sea. Student Lessons Teacher's Guide Grades 1-3 Grades 4-6 Grades 7-12 |  |
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| BTNEP Educational CDs | | All materials are available, please contact sandra@btnep.org | | Exploring Coastal Louisianawith Boudreaux and Marie An interactive CD-Rom that addresses coastal wetland issues in Louisiana. A component of the CD-Rom focuses on Barataria-Terrebonne and showcases it’s ecological, economic, and cultural importance. A wetland quiz and bird and animal identification quizzes promote interaction and learning by interested people. Boudreaux’s camp has a map room, kid’s room, and many other surprises, which can be accessed by the “point and click method”. Developed jointly by BTNEP, CWPPRA, and the USGS National Wetlands Research Center. Lesson plans available on the root directory of the CD. |  | Thibodeaux's Treasure
This interactive educational and entertaining CD invites elementary school children to learn about our wetlands as they join Jeanne Thibodeaux and Tee Boudreaux on a treasure hunt journey. This CD will teach students basic skills and inspire coastal stewardship through a cartoon learning environment. Ideal for student K-4. |  | | |
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