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The Web contains an ever-growing collection of prairie resources. Here are some links to get you started:
- Bell Museum's On the Prairie Site
Includes a Build-A-Prairie game, a field guide to common plants and animals of the prairie and a virtual prairie tour. Appropriate for students.
- Fermilab Prairie Resources
Includes prairie plant and animal profiles and results of student research projects at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. Appropriate for students.
- Homestead National Monument's Virtual Prairie
A video tour of Homestead National Monument in Nebraska, including landscape panoramas and plant photos that can be rotated in three dimensions. The videos are large and take a few minutes to load over a modem connection. Appropriate for students.
- Illinois Department of Natural Resources Web Site
A rich site that includes information on state parks, Illinois plants and animals, technical reports from IDNR scientists
and more.
- Illinois Natural History Survey's Tallgrass Prairie Web Site
Includes a photographic guide to prairie plants, background on prairie restoration, recommended plant lists, suggestions for visiting prairies in Illinois and more. Appropriate for students.
- Illinois State Museum's Prairie in Illinois Site
Includes field guides, an online restoration game and sections covering prairie restoration, planting prairie gardens and more. Appropriate for students.
- Midewin's Prairie Lesson Plans
Developed by Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie in conjunction with the OpenLands foundation, a variety of language arts, social studies and science/math lesson plans that incorporate the prairie.
- National Prairie Wildlife Research Center
A clearinghouse for scientific research on the flora and fauna of the prairie ecosystem. Provides online access to numerous scientific papers.
- Prairie Rivers Resource Conservation & Development
A nonprofit organization devoted to promoting conservation in Central Illinois through events such as Conservation Expo and participation in groups such as the Illinois River Bluffs Ecosystem Partnership.
Additional lists of Web links related to various prairie inhabitants include
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