ECOLOGY

=[|BUCKET BUDDIES POND STUDY]= =[|EARTH DAY LESSONS]= =[|ABOARD THE BLUE HERON]This interactive virtual reality tour takes visitors aboard the research vessel on Lake Superior and lets them explore the ships labs, bridge and even the engine room.= =[|AMAZON INTERACTIVE]Explore the cultural and natural geography of the Ecuadorian Amazon through online games and activities= =[|AIR POLLUTION INTERNET HUNT]= =[|KINGS OF CAMOUFLAGE] PBS video of the cuttlefish, one of the brainiest, most bizarre animals in the ocean (53 minutes)= =[|OCEAN ANIMAL EMERGENCY] PBS video Wildlife veterinarians struggle to save injured sea lions and seals(52 minutes)= =[|THE SILENCE OF THE BEES]PBS documentary video on the disappearance of honeybee hives (50 minutes)= =**[|EARTH CLOCK]****Real-time tracking, watch our Earth change** = =[|LABEL THE CARBON CYCLE] = =[|ECOSYSTEMS AND FOOD CHAINS]= =[|THE ZERO FOOTPRINT YOUTH CALCULATOR] Kids can calculate their digital footprint = =[|OUR HUMAN FOOTPRINT] Miss Tripp's page= =[|LESSON PLANS FOR TEACHING THE LORAX]= =[|PLANET ARCADE GAMES]= =[|WHALES AND DOLPHINS KIDS' ZONE]= =[|CLIPPER WORLD CLASSROOM]= =[|NATUREWORKS THE NATURE CONSERVANCY RESOURCES]= =[|AN INFOGRAPHIC BREAKDOWN OF THE WORLD'S GREENEST CITIES]= =[|GLOBAL CLOSET CALCULATOR] Discover your interdependence= = [|CLOSE-KNIT NEIGHBORS] c reate your own ecosystem by rearranging the different communities in a jar of pond mud. It may just look like muck, but the mud is actually a complex community of different organisms = = [|FOOD FIGHT] Build a virtual food web as you learn about and producers and consumers within a biome! The objective of this game is for each player to get his or her selected animal into the biome and grow its population. = = [|INVASION: INVASIVE SPECIES GAME] = = [|CLIMATE COMMONS] A map of climate change stories from around the world = = [|RAINFOREST ECOSYSTEM] =

= [|LIFEBOAT TO MARS] Fantastic ecosystem sim makes learning biology fun =