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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWarming May Cause Widespread Water Shortages, Studies Say
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, History-Social Science, Geography, American Democracy and 2 additional..In this National Geographic News article, read about how global warming may lead to water shortages in regions that depend on ru...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWatch Your Step: Study Shows Life in Tidal Areas at Risk
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, American Democracy, History-Social Science, Geography, ScienceIn this National Geographic News article, read about how human activity in tidal regions can wreak real, and lasting, damage. Wh...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPlains Drought Cycle Has Long History, Ominous Future
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, History-Social Science, Earth & Space Science, Geography, ScienceIn this National Geographic News article, read about a study revealing that cyclical droughts have ravaged the U.S. Great Plains...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWarming Will Lead to Major Disease Outbreaks, Experts Warn
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Personal and Community Health, History-Social Science, Earth & Space Science, Geography and 4 additional..In this National Geographic News article, read about a report suggesting that disease outbreaks in humans are likely to increase...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLink"Instant" Evolution Seen in Darwin's Finches, Study Says
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, American Democracy, History-Social Science, Geography, ScienceIn this National Geographic News article, read about an evolutionary change that took place in a single generation among a breed...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWorld's Oldest Penguin Fossils Suggest Birds Outlived Dinos
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, History-Social Science, Geography, ScienceIn this National Geographic News article, read about the oldest penguin fossils yet found suggesting that at least some ancestor...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGenetically Modified Bacteria Produce Living Photographs
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, Visual Arts, History-Social Science, American Democracy and 3 additional..In this National Geographic News article, read about a method to create photographs with E. coli bacteria. This is an early succ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkYour DNA Is a Song: Scientists Use Music to Code Proteins
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Music, Life Sciences, History-Social Science, American Democracy and 2 additional..In this National Geographic News article, read about how science educators are creating protein songs. By assigning musical no...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFoxes Invade Tasmania, Create "Environmental Emergency"
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, American Democracy, History-Social Science, Geography, ScienceIn this National Geographic News article, read about the apparent introduction of red foxes to the Australian island of Tasmania...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLink"Killer" Fossil Find May Rewrite Story of Whale Evolution
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, American Democracy, History-Social Science, Geography, ScienceIn this National Geographic News article, read about the fossil discovery of an early baleen whale with huge eyes and killer jaw...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFirst Evidence That Wildlife Corridors Boost Biodiversity, Study Says
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, American Democracy, History-Social Science, Geography, ScienceIn this National Geographic News article, read about a five-year study of South Carolina pine forests that offers proof that con...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhales May Be Doomed by Russia Oil Project, Groups Say
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, History-Social Science, Geography, American Democracy and 2 additional..In this National Geographic News article, read about how whale conservationists have urged Shell Corporation to stop its Siberia...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHimalaya Forests Vanishing, Species May Follow, Study Says
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, History-Social Science, Geography, American Democracy and 2 additional..In this National Geographic News article, read about how nearly a quarter of the species unique to the Himalayas could vanish by...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHumans Put Squeeze on Ancient Pronghorn Migration
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, History-Social Science, Geography, American Democracy and 2 additional..In this National Geographic News article, read about changes in the migration routes of the Yellowstone pronghorn. Using GPS to ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhales Could Be Harmed by Oil-Search Noises, Report Says
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, American Democracy, History-Social Science, Geography, ScienceIn this National Geographic News article, read about how seismic pulses used for underwater oil exploration could affect whale m...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLink"Bugs" in Our Guts Make Us More Than Human, Study Says
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, History-Social Science, Geography, American Democracy and 4 additional..In this National Geographic News article, read about the important role that microbes in the digestive tract play in our surviva...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCane Toad
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, History-Social Science, Geography, ScienceThis National Geographic Magazine resource focuses on the cane toad. This venemous toad has a large population in Australia, whe...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat Has Been Happening to Polar Bears in Recent Decades?
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, ScienceThis resource, from NOAA, features information about polar bears and the challenges they face. Users can also link to polar bear...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: DocumentHow Do Genes Work Within Their Environments?
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, History-Social Science, Psychology, Electives, ScienceThis online book chapter, presented by AAAS, explores the functions of and variations within the human genome. The chapter comes...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTour of the Basics
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, ScienceThis tutorial, created by the Genetic Science Learning Center at the University of Utah, introduces students to DNA, genes, chro...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0