ADDITIONAL BACKGROUND INFORMATION AND TUTORIALS

EPA Students and Teachers

The EPA links to an educational module about hazardous waste, a guide to environmental issues, and much, much more.

SOFTWARE AND MULTIMEDIA

Earth Observation Movie Studio

Movies created from satellite images of clouds, the biosphere, ozone, rain, snow, ice, and temperatures can be found at this NASA page.

PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES

The Living Edens

This public broadcasting television show has several activities to accompany its programs on pockets of biodiversity around the world. Each program has its own teachers resources section:

• Denali: Explore predator and prey relationships and food pyramids by looking at the tundra, moose, and wolves of Alaska.
• Patagonia: Look at the distribution of the animals of this Argentinian region.
• Namib: What makes this desert so dry?

Discovery Channel School: Planet Ocean

The Discovery Channel turns its educational spotlight on water biomes, listing activities and links related to the study of the ocean.

Energy Science Projects

Here are some science projects suggested by the U.S. Department of Energy.

The Access Excellence Collection

These innovative classroom activities from Access Excellence are grouped by chapter relevance.

The Biosphere

• Ecology and Biome Unit
• Project Wetlands
• Biospheres
• Bog Science
• EnviroQuest: A Statistical Study of Three Biomes
• Hands On Biodiversity: Networking Students and Their Biomes
• An Online Project: Comparing Terrestrial Ecosystems in Different States
• Partnership In Science Education
• Environmental Report for Marine or Limnological Studies
• Prairie Fieldwork Unit
• Prairie Restoration and Prairie Ecology

Populations and Communities

• An Interdisciplinary Deer and Human Population Study
• Migrating Monarchs and Trekking Timber Wolves on the Internet
• Grasshopper Mark and Recapture (GMR)
• Endosymbiosis: A Friend Within
• Symbiosis and Co-Evolution
• Biodiversity Survey - A Unit Study

Ecosystems Dynamics

• Building an Ecosystem
• Micro-Ecosystems
• Life Beyond the Fifty Yard Line: An ecological look at our back yard
• Biological Succession in a Microecosystem
• The Coast
• Pesticides and Eggshell Thinning
• Groundwater Unit Outline with Culminating Project
• A Stream Ecosystem in the Classroom
• A Living Watershed
• A Limnology Study of Drainage Ditches
• Studying a Piece of an Ecosystem

People and the Environment

• Project Legacy
• Environmental Monitoring Adventure
• Acid Rain Research
• Oil Spill in a Test Tube
• Designing a Tropical Reserve System
• Rain Forest Products
• What the Sun Can Do
• Using Cichlids To Demonstrate the Effects of Human Activity On Ecosystems
• Who Dirtied The Water/Clean Water: Is It Drinkable?
• St. Louis River Watch
• Water Walk
• Unit Outline For Environmental Study
• Coho Salmon Enhancement Project
• High School Marine Science at Its Best: Research Collaboration
• Here Today, Gone Tomorrow....?
• Making Connections ("What You Can Do To Help Stop Global Climate Change")
• Ethnobotanicals

The Access Excellence Online Projects

Access Excellence is also trying to promote collaborative projects between schools. Check out this page to see:

• BIOME VIDEO Exchange Project: Have your students produce a video of the biomes around your community to exchange with other schools around the United States. A teacher in South Carolina is coordinating this project and will combine the clips into one video. Students watching the tape will have to guess what biome their counterparts are showcasing.

Research Projects: Many of these projects have to do with environmental monitoring and bioindicator species.