Digital Arts for the Naturalistic (Nature Smart)


Digital Arts for the Naturalistic

 

 

CyberHikes

-- Have students use digital cameras to create cyberhikes for your area.  (See this model from California, or from the Northwest where they have posted maps of particular hikes that you can click on to see pictures of different locations along the hike)

 

Cyber Plant Tours:

--Have students photograph trees or plants in the area of the campus.  Use a wiki site or website(www.pbwiki.com for example), and allow students to post the photographs, label them, or write about them.

 

International Polar Year

Explore the poles--Blogs, Projects using Google Earth, Videoconference events, etc. for International Polar Year

 

Global Climate Change

-- from the San Francisco Exploratorium 

 

Exploratorium

Explore the arctic poles, life under a microscope, and more at the Exploratorium's main site

 

Environmental sites:

Green Belt Movement (Kenya) --movement to plant trees and avoid deforestation and water pollution

 

Global Warming

International Action on Global Warming features downloadable global game event, links to videoconferences, etc.

 

London Natural History Museum

--blog with Antarctic conservationists