Sophia Learning
Sophia: Human Activity
A webpage discussing how human activity has impacted soil, populations, water composition, and temperature. Website includes an audio tour of the material. [1:53]
Other
Open2.net: Ecosphere
Designed by the Open University and the BBC, this website from Open2.net explores ecosystems. Included is a lengthy discussion on closed ecosystems and their importance to research, as well as a virtual ecosystem, an interactive showcase...
Other
Adopt a Pond Wetland Curriculum Resource
The Adopt-A-Pond Program was created by the Toronto Zoo for teachers looking for a guide to wetland issues and resources.
World Wildlife Fund for Nature
World Wildlife Fund: Forests
This resource provides information about forests throughout the world, deforestation, and efforts made to save the forests.
Science Struck
Science Struck: The 6 Chief Levels of Organization in Ecology
Describes six levels of organization in the biological world - individual species, population, community, ecosystem, biome, and biosphere.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Environmental Concepts
This lesson will discuss the key concepts related to the human relationship with the environment.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Ecosystems
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Ecology is the study of ecosystems. That is, ecology is the study of how living organisms interact with each other and with the nonliving part of their environment....
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S Cool: Engery Flow and Nutrient Cycle
This website describes trophic levels, transfer of energy between trophic levels, pyramids of ecology, and nutrient cycles within the environment.
Curated OER
Resettlement
CNN reports in 1999 on China's biggest construction project since the Great Wall, the ecologically controversial building of the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangzi River.