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Biodiversity Project
Formed in 1995, the "Biodiversity Project," was created to raise awareness and educate the public on the connection between biodiversity and everyday life. General biodiversity questions are answered in the "What is biodiversity?,"...
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Ology: Kinds of Biodiversity
Explains what biodiversity is, why it is important, threats it faces, and what people can do to help it survive.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: What's the Big Idea? Biodiversity
Find information about diversity among genes, species, and ecosystems that helps answer questions about the importance of biodiversity and how we can save species from extinction.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Biodiversity: Local Ecosystem & Food Web
This is a hands on lesson in which students will explore their local community to identify living things. It can be used as part of a unit on biodiversity and energy transfer within a biology, zoology, or environmental science course, or...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Biodiversity in Your Schoolyard
In this field lab, students will investigate the biodiversity around their school and record and document the information they find. The students will compare their information to those of their classmates, develop multiple hypotheses...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Simpson's Reciprocal Index: Identify and Compare Habitat Biodiversity
In this biology field lab, students will collect insects from two different habitats and use them to quantify the biodiversity of each habitat.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Using Plant Surveys to Study Biodiversity
An extended field investigation intended as launch into several concepts in environmental science including biodiversity, human impacts on natural systems, and energy transfer in ecosystems.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Biology: Threats to Biodiversity: Self Check Quiz
Try these five self-checking quiz questions over the threats to the loss of biodiversity on Earth.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Biology: Conserving Biodiversity: Self Check Quiz
Five review quiz questions about the conservation of natural resources and the preservation of biodiversity.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Science: Biodiversity and Conservation: Chapter Test Practice
Take this fifteen question practice assessment to review the concepts of biological diversity and conservation.
American Institute of Biological Sciences
Action Bioscience: Biodiversity
This site from the American Institute of Biological Sciences contains articles on a wide array of issues related to species diversity and extinction. Many articles available in Spanish.
National Geographic
National Geographic: Marine Ecosystems and Biodiversity
In this unit students explore major marine ecosystems by locating them on maps. Students use marine examples to learn about energy transfer through food chains and food webs and then they discuss how food webs can illustrate the health...
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Alberta Riparian Habitat Mgt Society: Biodiversity and Riparian Areas [Pdf]
Healthy riparian areas have much higher levels of biodiversity than other types of ecosystems, as explained in this fact sheet. Unfortunately, this also attracts more people, which can contribute to degradation of the ecosystem if the...
Read Works
Read Works: Changes in Biodiversity
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about changes in biodiversity and the chain reaction of problems they can cause. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
The Wild Classroom
The Wild Classroom: What Is Biodiversity?
Learn the main reasons we must care for the Earth's resources and its biodiversity. Look around the site as there are links to related topics and videos as well.
Untamed Science
Untamed Science: Biodiversity: Animals: Chordates: Amphibians: Class Amphibia
Explore the biodiversity of the Class Amphibia through videos, photos and examples. [2:34]
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: What Do You Know? Biodiversity
Take a self-scoring quiz that tests your knowledge of biodiversity.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Exploration Questions: Harnessing Sci and Ed for Biodiversity Cons
Grab your notebook or computer and write out your answer to each of the following questions. Then compare your answer to the suggested answer found in the "Answers to the exploration questions" document.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Modern Biodiversity
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How diverse Earth's organisms are today.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Modern Biodiversity
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How diverse Earth's organisms are today.
American Institute of Biological Sciences
Action Bioscience: The Threat to Biodiversity & What Can Be Done
Invasive species such as zebra mussels are threatening the ecosystems they are overrunning. Meet some of the unwelcome intruders and find out what they're doing and how their actions can be curbed.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Using Benthic Marcoinvertebrates to Determine Biodiversity in a River
In this investigation of macroinvertebrates, students will build rock baskets and place them in various parts of a river to collect insects. Students will group insects according to their pollution tolerance and use the PTI to determine...
The Wonder of Science
The Wonder of Science: Ms Ls2 5: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Solutions
Work samples, phenomena, assessment templates, and videos that directly address standard MS-LS2-5: biodiversity and ecosystem services solutions.
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Earth Day Canada: Eco Kids: Improve Biodiversity
Biodiversity is a term used to describe the variety of life found on Earth. You can help create habitats and promote biodiversity by creating seed balls! These balls can be thrown, placed or planted in any urban space that needs greening.
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