The Wild Classroom
The Wild Classroom: Biomes of the World: Lakes and Ponds
Learn about lake and pond ecosystems. Find out about plants, animals, adaptations, and conservation efforts.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Froggy Forecasting: How Frog Health Predicts Pond Health
Have you ever heard the expression "a canary in a coal mine"? In the 1900s and earlier, coal miners brought canaries with them into the mines to act as early warning signals. The canaries were very sensitive to low levels of dangerous...
Nature Conservancy
Nature Conservancy: Planet Earth: Rivers and Lakes
A comprehensive exploration of rivers and lakes, their importance to biodiversity and to humans, how we use them, threats they face, and what is being done to conserve them.
BBC
Bbc Nature: Wildlife: Lakes and Ponds
Take a close-up look at the world of lakes and ponds and discover what lives and grows there through pictures, news, descriptions, and external links.
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Lake Superior
This site provides facts, illustrations, and more about the largest Great Lake. Includes descriptions of wildlife and industry. For grades 4-8.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Making Sense of Macroinvertebrates
In this field lab, small groups of students will explore macroinvertebrates found in a pond system near school. They will explore and practice observation and communication skills, then formulate a question and procedures to "test" their...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Two Types of Journaling Before Pond Study
During the lab, students investigate the interaction of living and nonliving environmental factors affecting a run off pond near the school.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Who Am I? Plant and Animal Life in a Pond
After learning about pond life, students play a game where they must ask questions to discover the name of an animal or a plant displayed on a card placed on their backs. A set of images, a questioning sheet, and a list of vocabulary...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Pondering the Pond
After a trip to the pond, learners will be able to name plants, animals, birds, and insects found at the pond. They will be able to categorize them and sort them into groups.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Fish Habitats
During this instructional activity, young scholars spend time looking at pictures of fish and their habitat, talking about what all animals need to live, making a poster of a fish habitat, and finally visiting a lake.
Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden: Freshwater Ecosystems
At this site from the Missouri Botanical Garden, you can learn about the wide variety of plant and animal life in or around fresh water ecosystems. Click on the links to "wetlands," "Ponds and Lakes," or "Rivers and Streams" to view...
Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden: Lakes and Ponds
This illustrated website features facts about lakes and ponds and their special place in geography, natural history, and as a biome.
Other
Alberta Riparian Habitat Management: Protecting Shorelines & Streambanks [Pdf]
Protecting Shorelines & Streambanks - Naturally explains the critical importance of healthy shorelines for preventing soil erosion and filtering out pollutants. It looks specifically at riparian areas, such as those in Alberta, which...
Untamed Science
Untamed Science: Biology: World Biomes: Lakes and Ponds Biome
Learn about the biotic and abiotic factors of lakes and ponds as well as learning how lakes form through reading and video clips.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Ponds and Lakes
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Features, including zonation, of ponds and lakes.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Ponds and Lakes
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Features of ponds and lakes.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Habitat Network: Pond Basics
Considering adding a pond to increase the diversity of wildlife found there.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Ponds and Lakes
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Features, including zonation, of ponds and lakes.
Bill Nye
Bill Nye: Pond, James Pond
This tutorial by Bill Nye explains how to create a tool for looking through the surface of water without being thwarted by reflections.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Pond Life Animal Printouts
Filled with printable pages of both plant and animal pond life, Enchanted Learning features fact sheets with color pictures.
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology
Ciese Collaborative Projects: Bucket Buddies: Environmental Study
Bucket Buddies is an opportunity for young scholars to participate in a world-wide environmental study. By identifying organisms in pond water, participating classes can compare their findings, and look for relationships in data. In...
PBS
Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Lakes
What is a lake? Discover the answer to this question when you explore this informative resource. This site provides information on how temperature and seasonal changes effects lakes, how lakes are formed, how lakes compare in numbers to...
PBS
Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Ponds
Can you give a definition for a pond? This site provides information ranging from types of plants living in ponds to how ponds were formed. Don't miss out on the photographs found within the site too.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Ponds and Lakes Study Guide
Use this study guide to review the main concepts of ponds and lakes.