Resources for Teachers

Focus on Teachers - Curriculum Resources

"A Prairie Journey", a 20 min. slide show and written narration that
introduces the natural and cultural history of the prairies and an
overview of the prairie restoration movement.

73 slides. @$35 plus $5 shipping per item.

Make checks to: University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum,
1207 Seminole Hwy. Madison, WI 53711, 603-263-7888
 

"A Prairie Journey", a 25 min. video, same content as the slide show above,
but includes more images. Students narrate, play the background music and
provide artwork. @$20 plus $5 shipping per item.

Make checks to: University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum,
1207 Seminole Hwy. Madison, WI 53711, 603-263-7888

 

Art Print:  "North American Prairie Panorama" by Larry Eifert, in five languages.
Badlands Natural History Association, PO Box 47, Interior, SD 57750,
1-605-433-5489

 

Bobby Bluestem, Rhonda O'Grady. A Children's Book on the Tallgrass Prairie.
Pemmican Publications, Inc. Unit 2-1635 Burrows Avenue, Winnipeg,
MB R2X OT1 Canada. $9.95.

Buffalo Sunrise: The Story of a North American Giant, by Diane Swanson.
1996. Sierra Club Books for Children, San Francisco.

Dust Bowl, The Southern Plains in the 1930's by Donald Worster.
Oxford University Press, New York. 1979

Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie an Ethnobotanical Guide by Kelly
Kindscher. University Press of Kansas, 1987.

Know Your Grasses, Texas Agricultural Extension Service, Publication B - 182.

Little House on the Prairie book series by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Especially By the Shores of Silver Lake and On the Banks of Plum Creek

Medicinal Wild Plants of the Prairie an Ethnobotanical Guide by Kelly
Kindscher. University Press of Kansas, 1992.

My Antonia and O Pioneer! by Willa Cather: her fictional prairie
series about immigrants in early Nebraska

100 Native Forage Grasses in 11 Southern States, by Horace L.
Leithead, Lewis L. Yarlett, and Thomas N. Shiflet. Agriculture Handbook No. 389,
Soil Conservation Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1971. Reprinted in 1976.

Prairie Grasslands, a resource to supplement Alberta Education's
Junior High Environmental and Outdoor Education Course of Studies,
Calgary Board of Education, Calgary, Canada, 1992.

Prairie Art Jigsaw Puzzles:
-North American Prairie 1000 piece, 26 x18
-Prairie of Days Gone By 150 piece, 18 x 24
-Prairie Dog Town 150 piece each, 18 x24
Badlands Natural History Association, PO Box 47, Interior, SD 57750,
1-605-433-5489

"Prairie Propagation Handbook" by Harold Rock, available from Wehr
Nature Center, 9701 West College Ave, Franklin, WI 53132 $4.95 each plus $1.05
postage for up to 4 books plus a 50 cents handling fee per book.

Prairie Primer by Stan Nichols, Lynn Entine, and Eveyn Howell, 1996.
Extension Publication G2736 by Cooperative Extension Publishing, Room 170,
630 W. Mifflin Street, Madison, WI 53703 Call (608) 262-3346 for availability.

Prairie Restoration for Wisconsin Schools: A Guide to Restoration from
Site Analysis to Management, by M.F. Murray, 1993. Earthkeeping Program,
University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum. 1207 Seminole Highway, Madison,
Wisconsin 53711 $21.10 -A superb resource for students, teachers and parents
with much application to the Canadian prairies.

Prairie Seedlings Illustrated: An Identification Guide by Lora Dittmer
and Laura Jackson. 1997. Self-published $4. Make check out to "University
of Northern Iowa" and mail to Prairie Seedlings Illustrated, Department of Biology,
University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA 50614.

Project LS, Land stewardship and Lifestyle Decisions, Iowa Specific
Environmental Education for Ages 10 to Adult, by Mary Norton and Jay Norton,
1992. Prairie Hills Farm, New Hartford, IA 50660, 319-983-2622. No information
on price.

Pronghorn, Portrait of the American Antelope by Gary Turbak, Northland
Publishing, 1995.

"Restoration and Management Notes" (Society for Ecological Restoration)
published quarterly by University of Wisconsin Arboretum, Journal Division,
114 N. Murray St., Madison, WI 53715

Restoring the Tallgrass Prairie: an Illustrated Manual for Iowa and the Upper
Midwest by S. Shirley, 1994, University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, Iowa.

"Revegetating with Native Grasses" from Ducks Unlimited Canada, Box 1160,
Stonewall, Manitoba R0C 2Z0. $15 U.S.

Seeding the Snow, a Journal of Women's Writing and Artwork that Celebrates
the Midwest Landscape. Yearly subscription is $10 (two issues). Send
subscriptions to: Seeding The Snow, 2534 N. St. Louis, Chicago IL 60647-1206.

Texas Prairies, a curriculum for 4-7 grade by the Botanical Research
Institute of Texas, 509 Pecan St. Fort Worth TX 76102-4060
1-817-332-4441 $15

Texas Prairies, a curriculum developed for Round Rock, TX ISD schools by
Dorothy Chavez, Ph.D. Write Barbara ten Brink, Ph.D., Round Rock Education
Science Administrator for Curriculum, 1311 Round Rock Ave. Round Rock,
TX 78681 512-464-5077

The Explorers Texas by Del Weniger, Eakin Press, Austin, Texas 1984

The Grasses of Texas by Frank W. Gould, Texas A&M University Press,
College Station, 1975.

The Prairie Action Curriculum Activity Guide Manitoba Naturalists Society,
401-63 Albert Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 1G4

The Tallgrass Restoration Handbook, for Prairies, Savannas, and Woodlands,
Stephen Packard and Cornelia F. Mutel, editors. 1996. Island Press. 432 pp.
Cloth $50, paperback $25.

The Prairie Garden 70 Native Plants You Can Grow in Town or Country, by J.
Robert Smith with Beatrice S. Smith, The University of Wisconsin Press, 1980.

The Texas Blackland Prairie: Land, History, and Culture, edited by Rebecca
Sharpless and Joe C. Yelderman, Jr. Baylor University, 1993. 817-755-2190.

Where The Sky Began, Land of the Tallgrass Prairie by John Madson, Sierra
Club Paperback Library, San Francisco. 1982.