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Pde Sas: Relationships Among Organisms
In this lesson, young scholars compare various types of relationships among organisms (i.e., biotic interactions). Students will: explain the roles of producers and consumers, and predators and prey in an ecosystem. Explain the levels of...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: The Habitable Planet: Ecology Lab
Create the parameters of your own ecosystem by choosing which producers and consumers live there. Visualize how the food web operates and species populations change. This simulator mimics the food web within a typical ecosystem and gives...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Episd Biology: Flow of Energy
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students will study how energy flows through an ecosystem and learn about photoautotrophs and chemoautotrophs, the role of decomposers, and of consumers.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Working Together to Live Together
Students experience civil and environmental engineering by planning a housing development in an existing biome, while also protecting the native species that live there. They conduct research, draw plans, make brochures and give...
NOAA
Noaa: National Ocean Service Education: Estuaries
Illustrated tutorial explains estuary ecosystems. Animations and illustrations help students become more familiar with the plant and animal communities which make up this coastal habitat.
PBS
Pbs: Nature: Hawaii's Vulnerable Biodiversity
Because of Hawaii's isolation, endemic species evolved in their own unique way. With the arrival of foreigners and colonization, new species were introduced to the islands. The result being a crisis within the Hawaiian ecosystem,...
Utah State Office of Education
Utah Science: What Do You Mean, We Are Different?
Across the state of Utah one will observe a variety of environments such as wetlands, desert, and forest. Here are several activities highlighting the many ecosystems found within one state.
Other
Ohio Department of Education: The Long and Short Story of Ecological Succession
An ecology simulation where each student plays a role of an organism in an forest ecosystem. Students earn and keep track of their own survival points to determine which type of organism is most successful at survival during different...
A to Z Teacher Stuff
A to Z Teacher Stuff: The Great Kapok Tree (Lesson Plan)
Help your young scholars develop an understanding of a rain forest ecosystem and the environment through this social studies lesson.
Other
Thurston High School: Tundra Project
High school student site that describes and illustrates the tundra biome with such topics as climate, location, vegetation, health issues, and animals.
McGill University
Mc Gill University: Canadian Biodiversity: Canada's Ecozones
Describes Canada's 15 land ecozones and 5 water ecozones.
PBS
Pbs: Activities for the Classroom: Permawhat?
This is a an online activity on permafrost. The objectives are stated, there is background information, an activity, an evaluation, and additional web resources.
Other
Alberta Environment: Alberta Grasslands: A World at Your Feet [Pdf]
This excellent 64-page teaching resource looks at the historical and geological past of the Alberta grasslands, their biodiversity, threats they face from human activities, and steps being taken to conserve them. The unit is designed for...
Center for Educational Technologies
Nasa Classroom of the Future: Temperate Rainforest: Ecology and Land Use
Use these resources to study the ecology of the rainforest of the Pacific Northwest and issues surrounding its preservation.
PBS
Pbs: M, M, M (Maps, Maps, Maps)
This is an online activity on Topographic maps with stated objectives, an activity, background information, evaluation, and resources. This site has information on where you can adjust the activity for elementary or secondary age levels.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Designing a Sustainable Guest Village
This lesson introduces students to their task of designing a permanent guest village within the Saguaro National Park. The design must provide a true desert experience to visitors while also emphasizing sustainable design, protection of...
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Habitats of the World
This site has a lesson to use to start a unit on biomes and animal habitats. This plan incorporates grasslands, temperate forests, tropical rainforests, deserts, polar ice regions, and tidepools.
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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...
University of Guelph
Canada's Polar Environments
This site is a set of images along with volumes of information make this site a treasure trove. The site has satellite images.
PBS
Pbs: Journey to Planet Earth: Seas of Grass
A part of the PBS series "Journey to Planet Earth," this section explores the world's grasslands, some of which are in environmental danger. Includes video and educational resources.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Themepark: Home/habitat: Habitat
Find a large collection of internet resources organized around habitats. Links to places to go, people to see, things to do, teacher resources, and bibliographies.
Other
Institute of Ecotechnics: Bio Sphere 2
Learn about the Biosphere 2 project and the history of Biospherics.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Introduction to Habitat Alteration
Introduction to the concepts of habitat and habitat change.