2020 5th – 8th Grades Envirothon
2020 ENVIROTHON FOR 5th – 8th GRADES: Here are your 2020 Study Resources, Coaches Manual & School Registration Form (scroll down and click on image for full manual). Please print out your Cover Resource Sheet for each study topic first and use it for reference to ensure you have each of the study resources you need for each subject.
Aquatics 2020
- Aquatic Cover Resources Sheet
- PA Fish & Boat Commission’s Fish Book
- Creek Connections, Allegheny College
- PA F&BC’s Pennsylvania Amphibians & Reptiles Book
- Smart Angler’s Notebook: Crazy Crayfish
- Smart Angler’s Notebook: Diadromy – Middle School Only
- All About Fish
- A River Flows Through It
- Are You a Stream Reader
- What’s Up with Our Nation’s Water?
- (Summer 2004) Watersheds and Stream Order
- (Fall 1999) Trees and Aquatic Insects
- (Summer 2005) PA’s Most Migratory Fish
Forestry 2020
- Forestry Cover Resource Sheet
- Identification Pages for the Tree Species
- Leaf Characteristics
- Tree ID Basics
- Summer Key for Pennsylvania Trees
- Planting Trees in Your Community Forest
- Benefits of Trees in Our Communities
- Ten Easy Ways to Kill A Tree
- Tree Mortality and the Community Forestry Program – The Top 10 Tree Killers
Wildlife 2020
- Wildlife Cover Resource Sheet
- PA Game Commission’s “About the Pennsylvania Game Commission”
- PA Game Commission’s “Basic Hunter-Trapper Education”
- Skull Study Worksheets: general information and species ID
- PA Woodlands “Dead Wood For Wildlife” – pages 1 to 4 only
- PA Wildlife Journal –
- Eastern Chipmunk
- The Rats – focus on Allegheny Woodrat
- The Squirrels – focus on Gary Squirrel and Flying Squirrel
- Porcupine
- Black Bear
- Fisher
- The Weasels – focus on Short-tailed Weasel (or Ermine) and Long-tailed Weasel
- Bobcat
- Gray Wolf, Red Fox and Gray Fox
- Elk and White-tailed Deer
- Gallinaceous Birds – focus on Wild Turkeys
- Typical Owl – focus on Great Horned Owl, Barred Owl, Northern Saw-whet Owl
- Woodpeckers – focus on Pileated Woodpeckers, Red-bellied Woodpeckers
- Crows, Ravens, and Jays – focus on Blue Jay