
Compilation of Online Learning Resources
Local Resources
- Creek Connections Website - Teacher Resources, Classroom
- Resources, Loaner Modules (activities available online), links by topic
- Module activities that don’t require having the module and that are COVID-friendly
- Creek Connections - Weekly Themed, Daily Creature Questions for Students
- Creek Connections YouTube Channel
- Creek Connections & iNaturalist - how-to presentation
- PBS Tools for Anti-Racist Teaching - Will Tolliver, Allegheny graduate and Creeker, involved in production of these 4 episodes and is a panelist on the final episode regarding our youngest learners.
- Creek Connections - Summer Watershed Program Materials
- Allegheny County Conservation District - Watersheds - tons of Allegheny County-specific information as well as plenty of general watershed health information including macroinvertebrates!
- Allegheny County Park Rangers - Parks at Home
- Keith Piccard, GVSU, Allendale, MI public schools (a Creek Connections participating teacher!) - open Google Doc of Daily Science Posts for students with do at-home experiments
- Keith’s daughter, Isabella’s video on how to sample macroinvertebrates
- How To Videos for the RAIL Project - Keith Piccard. Click here for the data spreadsheets for Pigeon Creek & Pigeon River. Click here for RAIL project information.
- Does it Fart? Read aloud by scientists coordinated by Keith Piccard, GVSU. Does It Fart: The Definitive Guide to Animal Flatulence by Dr. Danni Rabaioti and Dr. Nick Carruso. The first episode is Keith explaining the whole project, and how he organized it so that scientists from all over the globe each are doing one episode. In each episode, they explain the type of research that they do and then read a chapter of the book.
- Dr. Emily Ricotta, Allegheny grad & former Creeker, currently working at National Institutes of Health in Infectious Diseases available for online talk/questions (emily.ricotta@nih.gov) and/or follow her on Twitter (@Iplaywithgerms). Dr. Ricotta created two presentations (so far) and they are full of information and personal stories:
- Outbreak Response (any grade)
- Lessons Learned - Career path to Epidemiology (HS)
- Sara Salisbury, Allegheny grad & former Creeker, currently pursuing Ph.D. studying environmental education at Middle Tennessee State University is available for online talk/questions/lessons ss2cc@mtmail.mtsu.edu. Sara specializes in using local greenspaces like lawns and yards to teach.
- April Claus, Allegheny grad & former leader of the QV Creekers, is available for online (LIVE ANIMALS) herp programs. Contact her at nature@zoominternet.net . There is a fee for her programming.
- Phipps Conservatory virtual environmental film series.
- Asbury Woods (Erie PA) - Virtual Visit
- Carnegie Museum of Natural History - Resources for Teachers
- Westmoreland Land Trust - educational videos for participating Westmoreland County School districts - For your school district to participate, a letter of support from your superintendent is required. Once the WLT receives that letter, teachers may request a workshop for their class(es).
- Pittsburgh’s Invasive Plants - Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy
- Tree Pittsburgh videos
Pennsylvania Resources
National Resources
Join EEPro - online professional development community for EE professionals
- USGS Streamer - Trace your stream to its headwaters or follow it downstream. Also available as a mobile site. Besides tracing your stream/river upstream or downstream, you can also create a trace report that shows lots of detailed information about the path that your waterway takes (cities, miles covered, states, etc.).
LIVE Animal Feeds
Videos
Do you have suggestions to share with other Creek Connections teachers? Please send to Wendy or Laura and we will add. You could also start your own Google Doc or publicly shareable document and share that with us!
Creek Connections is supported by Allegheny College, Grable Foundation, Frick Fund of the Buhl Foundation, Department of Environmental Protection’s 2019, 2020 & 2021 Environmental Education Grants Program, Educational Improvement Tax Credit Program, and individual donors.