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Illinois Glaciers and the Kankakee Torrent
Grades 3 through 5
Glaciers have dramatically shaped Illinois’ landscape. This teaching guide shares resources, activities, and background information on one particularly dramatic event (the Kankakee Torrent) and how scientists have learned about it from the traces it left behind.
Grades 3 through 5
This resource guide will introduce you and your students to some of the most important Illinois habitats, as well as the way natural resource managers have categorized our state’s landscapes. Included as well are some resources to help you explore Illinois’ diverse environments!
Grades 6 through 8
Countless children have drawn dinosaurs, megalodon, and mammoths, the ancient beasts just waiting to jump from kids’ imaginations and come alive on paper. This teaching guide will help you exploit this natural inclination while giving your students tools to think critically about the images they see in popular media, books, and museums.
Grades K through 2
This teaching guide gives you a number of resources to communicate the importance of pollination and encourage students to appreciate the web of life around them. Resources at the end will help you find and source native pollinators so you can keep habitats and humans healthy, and help your students thrive.
