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Learning Guides

SaveNature.Org learning guides invite you to explore rainforests and coral reefs and your own local nature to find the connection to saving wildlife and wild places forever. Learn where animals live and why rainforests and coral reefs are important. Remember, you can help save these remarkable ecosystems through the Adopt An Acre and Adopt A Reef programs. So get started.


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Exploring Rainforests
Exploring Coral Reefs
Coral Reef Nature Notes
Coral Reef Coloring SheetCommon Bay Area Butterflies and their foodplantsFederally Endangered and Threatened Species of ArthropodsClassifying Arthropods
Hummingbird Food Plants for Bay Area Landscapes
 

Insect Activity Sheets


Insect Coloring Sheet
Ecosystems & Insects Lab
Bugs in the System Recipes
Backyard Biodiversity
Insect Safari/Bilingual English/Spanish

 

Insect Fact Sheets 
girlatcreek
Anise Swallowtail Butterfly/Bilingual English/Spanish
Jerusalem Cricket 
Honey Bee
House Cricket/Bilingual English/Spanish
Mission Blue Butterfly
Monarch Butterfly
Painted Lady Butterfly/Bilingual English/Spanish
Termites
Yellow Mealworm Beetle/Bilingual English/Spanish
Yellowjackett
Western Bumble Bee Pocket Guide
Eastern Bumble Bee Pocket Guide
Bumble Bee Pocket Guide  
Everyman's Guide to Carpenter Bees
Everyman's Guide to Mason Bees
Madagascar Hissing Roach 

Other Arthropod Fact Sheets


American Brown Recluse Spider
California Tarantula
Calisoga Spider
Orb Weaver Spiders
Sowbug, Pillbug/Bilingual English/Spanish
Western Black Widow
Scorpion
Millipedes/Milpies bilingual


News Articles about the Insect Discovery Lab 

"Learning to Love Insects" Time for Kids, 2010
“Center targets kids before bugs ‘uncool’” Contra Costa Sun, 2006
“Getting Creepy for a Cause” SF Chronicle, 2005
“Tiburon Pupils Bug-eyed Over Insects” Marin Independent Journal, 1999
 

Be an Eco Hero! ocelotispose

Discover all about the secret lives of the ocelot by  Adopting Acres in the rainforest of Guanacaste. The exquisite markings on the cat serves as camouflage in the rainforest of Central and South America. Learn More

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