Educator Resources

• Bureau of Land Management (BLM) National Environmental Education page.  BLM is an agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior, administers 262 million acres of America's public lands, located primarily in 12 Western States. The BLM sustains the health, diversity, and productivity of the public lands for  the use and enjoyment of present and future generations.
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• Citizens for a Better Environment (CBE).  Protecting human health and the environment through research, advocacy, public education and citizen empowerment.
   
•   Creating My Hometown:  An Exercise in Land Use Decision Making, March 2003, by Steve Kohlstedt, Richland County, UW-Extension.  This report summarizes an activity that has been used by Steve Kohlstedt for over twenty years to help foster awareness of complex land use issues and conflicts with diverse audiences.
   
• Cyburbia, established in 1994, is the Internet's oldest "third place" for planners, planning students, architects, urbanists, and others interested or involved in shaping the built environment.
  
  
• Department of Natural Resources (DNR), Wisconsin
  • Land Use Education and Training
  • Education & Training.  DNR education programs help people of all ages understand and appreciate our state's natural resources.
  • EEK! - Environmental Education for Kids, the Wisconsin DNR web site for grades 4-8.
    
    
• EPA Students, Teachers, Parents.  The Environmental Protection Agency offers lessons and activities along with information and more links.
   
• ESRI, a GIS mapping and software company, offers information and activities for Geographic Information Systems and mapping.
  
  
• Facing the Future; People and the Planet.  A non-profit organization providing teachers, students, and the public with dynamic and successful global issues education and action opportunities to shape our future.
   
• Food, Land & People (FLP).  Project Food, Land & People promotes approaches to learning to help people better understand the interrelationships among agriculture, the environment and people of the world.
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• Green Map System is a globally connected, locally adaptable eco-cultural program for community sustainability.  Charts the sites of environmental significance around the world.
  
  
• Leopold Education Project (LEP) Lessons in a Land Ethic.  LEP is an innovative, interdisciplinary, critical thinking, conservation and environmental education curriculum based on the classic writings of the renowned conservationist, Aldo Leopold.  LEP teaches the public about humanity's ties to the natural environment in the effort to conserve and protect the earth's natural resources.
   
  
• Michigan State University Extension, This Land is Your Land - Lesson plans for land use.  Help students grow and develop into involved citizens who understand the importance and practice of wise land use.
   
• Metro: Making a great place.  A regional government that focuses on land use and transportation planning issues in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area.
  
  
• 4-H.  Youth development program.
   
• National Geographic Educational Resources. 
  • For Kids
  • For Students
  • For Teachers
     
• National Wildlife Federation.
   
• Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), US Department of Agriculture.  The Natural Resources Conservation Service provides leadership in a partnership effort to help people conserve, maintain, and improve our natural resources and environment.
   
• Natural Resources Defense Council's purpose is to safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals and the natural systems on which all life depends.
  
  
• Planners Web of the Planning Commissioners Journal.  City and regional planning resources.
  
  
• River Edge Nature Center offers continuing education courses for teachers of all grade levels in addition to numerous school programs for children.
  
  
• Smart Communities Network: Creating Energy Smart Communities.  A project of the US Department of Energy.
   
• Smart Growth OnLine.  Supporting the development of vibrant, healthy communities.  A service of the Smart Growth Network.
   
• Sustainable Communities Online: For a more sustainable future.  Links citizens to resources and to one another to create healthy, vital, sustainable communities.
    
  
• United Nations Cyberschoolbus.  Global teaching and learning project.
   
• United States Census Bureau, US Department of Commerce.
   
• United States Geological Survey (USGS), Educational Resources.  Dedicated to K-12 education and lifelong learning.  Explore things on, in, around and about the Earth, such as land, water, plants animals and maps.
   
  
• Western Upper Peninsula Center for Science, Mathematics and Environmental Education, Looks Count! Community Planning & the Visual Environment.  Community planning, natural resource protection and the visual environment.  An Interdisciplinary Middle School Curriculum Unit for language arts, social studies, math & science.
   
• Wisconsin Chapter of the American Planning Association (WAPA).
   
• Wisconsin Wildlife Federation.
    
• World Resources Institute (WRI).  WRI is an environmental think tank that goes beyond research to find practical ways to protect the earth and improve people's lives.

Printed Resources and References

These are some of the books that contain land use education lessons and information:

• Malone, Bobbie, et al. (1998).  Learning from the Land, Wisconsin Land Use, Teacher’s guide and Student Materials.  Madison, WI: The State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
   
• Butzow, Carol M., John W. Butzow (1999).  Exploring the Environment Through Children’s Literature, An Integrated Approach.  Englewood, CO: Teacher Ideas Press.
   
• Roa, Micheal L.  (1993).  Environmental Sciences Activities Kit.  West Nyack, NY:  The Center for Applied Research.
   

There will be many more added during the development of CLUSTER.  Please email us if there is a resource that should be added to this project.  Please pass this onto your local and fellow educators.  Thank you.