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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
BBC
Bbc Nature: Wildlife: Swamp
Take a close-up look at the world of swamps and discover what lives and grows there through pictures, descriptions, and external links. Listen to the various sounds made in swamps in different locations.
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.
Other
Living Lakes: Saint Lucia Lake
Provides color pictures and statistics on the biological and watershed characteristics of the Saint Lucia Lake on the east coast of South Africa.
BBC
Bbc Nature: Wildlife: Wetlands
Take a close-up look at the world of wetlands and discover what lives and grows there through videos, pictures, news, descriptions, and external links. Listen to the various sounds that occur in wetlands.
PBS
Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Terrestrial Communities
Explore land ecosystems around Earth. Learn about forests, tundra, taiga, grasslands, and deserts.
Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden: What's It Like Where You Live?
Learn about each biome with this site. Site will give you information about the plants, animals, and the climate found at each biome.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Tundra
Find out the basics of the Tundra biome, including the climate, location, and characteristic animals and plants living there.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Geo Glitz: Intensive Geological Survey of the Land at a Specific Location
In this geology field lab, students investigate the surrounding land by walking different transects of the ecosystem, looking for and identifying as many different living and nonliving ecosystem features as possible
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Go With the Energy Flow
Students learn about energy and nutrient flow in various biosphere climates and environments. They learn about herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, food chains and food webs, seeing the interdependence between producers, consumers and...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Constructing a Biodome
How to construct a biodome (closed ecosystem) for classroom use.
National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion: La Transferencia De Energia en Los Ecosistemas
Learn about the transfer of energy in the ecosystem.
National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion: La Dinamica De Los Ecosistemas
This unit shows how ecosystems change over time and how matter and energy, which are essential to its operation, are transformed and passed from one living thing to another forming, in some cases, authentic cycles. It contains 19...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Prairie Ecology [Pdf]
"Prairie Ecology" is a one page, nonfiction passage about the tallgrass prairie ecosystem and how it works using three animals: the skipper butterfly, ground squirrel, and the bison It is followed by an open-ended question which requires...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Cyberchase, Rescue Ecotopia
A game for kids to understand the basics of an ecosystem and keeping it balanced. A brief description of the animals and how they fit within the system is provided before the game begins.