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Credits & Thanks
Researched and Written by Kathryn Brewer and Jon Weaver
Website Development by Jon Weaver
Acknowledgments
Our panel of nine master teachers--Barbara Anschel, Judy Chaddick, Lynn Grimes, Brenda Korting, Priscilla Logan, Judy Montaņo, Jim Norton, Theresa Vargas, Kurt Waechter--and their students guided us in the creation of the Rainforest Exploratorium. We also got help from Monica Sanchez-Archuleta, whose fifth grade class at Espaņola Elementary School tested our basic science activities. Without these intelligent, highly imaginative educators and their enthusiastic students, there could have been no exploratorium.
Special thanks to Larry Kimball, Juan Pablo Moreiras, F. Wayne King, Barbara Magnuson, Mary Powell, Bruce Schwedick, Dr. Merlin D. Tuttle, and Dr. James K. Wetterer--the talented PHOTOGRAPHERS, whose brilliant images bring the rainforest to your classroom. Thanks also to Bat Conservation International, Crocodilian Photo Gallery, Flora & Fauna International, and Programme for Belize for making many of these photographs available to us.
Vicki Teague-Cooper designed the hexagon cards and created many of the exploratorium's illustrations. Our thanks to her for inspiration and fun!
The TOYOTA USA FOUNDATION gave us a generous grant for the exploratorium. The foundation supports innovative educational programs serving kindergarten through twelfth grade in the United States--with emphasis on mathematics and science.
As always, Earth's Birthday Project is grateful to THE NATURE CONSERVANCY, who has been our BIG GIFT partner since 1989. Thanks to the conservancy's great staff for their terrific efforts to preserve the world's rainforests!
Finally, a HUGE THANKS to YOU! At Earth's Birthday Project we know that teachers are among the very most important people. Our future is in your hands--and you're doing a WONDERFUL job to keep the Earth green and its children safe, smart, and responsible.
Earth's Birthday Project
Earth's Birthday Project educates children about the Earth--its beauty, resources and preservation.
Our butterflies and other easy, hands-on science activities make learning fun in more the 56,000 classrooms every year.
The Big Gift, our service learning project, helps children and teachers save threatened rainforests. Since 1990, participants have raised over $4 million to purchase and protect 175,000 acres of forest through EBP's partnership with The Nature Conservancy.
EBP is a nonprofit organization with offices in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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