ECO-MEET Rules and Reference Materials

Attention teachers and students!

The information below is provided as background material for the ECO-MEETs. Download these files in order to prepare for the competition.

If you or your administration wonders if ECO-MEET aligns with state education standards, the answer is YES!

Download this summary sheet for the standards
met by participation in ECO-MEET.

Rules & Regs Checklists Background Materials
State Event Materials Scholarship Claim Forms

For 2013, please note these important changes:

The following study lists are new for 2013:
Insects, Mammals and Birds.
The fish, mammal, amphibian and reptile lists are the same as last year. They have been abridged to include only those species found in the western half of the state. See them below.

To see our promotional video, with scenes from previous ECO-MEETS and comments from teachers and students,
contact your regional coordinator!

TEST CYCLE FOR THE KANSAS ECOMEET

Habitat Test

Focus Test

	2013: Shortgrass Prairie
	2014 & 2015: Wetlands/Aquatic

	2013 & 2014: Mammals
	2015 & 2016: Invertebrates

RULES AND REGULATIONS:

To download these files; On a Windows system, RIGHT-click on the links and choose "Save Target As" to save them to your hard drive, then open them from there. On a Mac, use Command-Click. The rules, regulations and background materials are in Acrobat Reader format. If you don't have the software to use these files already, you can get it for free from Adobe.

Table Test Guidelines General Rules and Regulations

Interpretive Event Guidelines Scavenger Hunt Guidelines

SCHOLARSHIP CLAIM FORMS
If you won scholarship money at any of the ECO-MEETs and are now ready to claim your winnings,
download the appropriate form, fill it out and send it in.
You must send in separate forms for regional and state scholarship money.

Scholarship Claim Form for STATE EVENT

Wichita Event

Milford Lake Event

Wilson Lake Event

Greenbush Event

Hutchinson Event

Hays/Webster Event

Salina Event

CHECKLISTS

Watch here for updated lists for 2013:

Insect List

Mammal List

Bird list

These lists are unchanged.

Amphibian List Fish List Reptile List

Other Invertebrates List SINC Species List

Threatened & Endangered Species List

Woody Plant List Grass & Forb List
NOTE: Plant lists are not all-inclusive. Other species unique to each event's location may be used.

BACKGROUND MATERIALS

Reference list of books
Crayfish in Kansas Freshwater Mussels in Kansas
You can download the K-State booklet "Range Grasses of Kansas" by clicking here. (1,280K)

Excellent line drawings of and information on Kansas grasses may be found here.

Click here to browse an excellent web site for pictures and information on Kansas wildflowers and grasses.
It is done by Mike Haddock of Kansas State University.

Click here to see an online version of the out-of-print book "Mammals of Kansas".

Click here for the Kansas Mammal Atlas

Click here for the Kansas Herp Atlas

Click here for an online version of the Great Plains Nature Center (GPNC) "Pocket Guide to Common Kansas Mammals".

Click here for an online version of the GPNC "Pocket Guide to Kansas Raptors".

Click here for an online version of the GPNC "Pocket Guide to Kansas Snakes".

Click here for an online version of the GPNC "Pocket Guide to Kansas Threatened & Endangered Species".

Click here for an online version of the GPNC "Pocket Guide to Kansas Freshwater Mussels".

Click here for an online version of the GPNC "Pocket Guide to Great Plains Shorebirds".

Click here for an online version of the GPNC "Pocket Guide to Great Plains Waterbirds".

Click here for an online version of the GPNC "Pocket Guide to Kansas Flint Hills Wildflowers".

STATE EVENT MATERIALS

Check back here in summer 2013 for the state packet.

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