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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWildfires: The Phenomena
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Science, Geography, Ecology & Ecosystems, Life Sciences, History-Social ScienceThe National Geographic web page discusses the benefits and drawbacks of allowing some wildfires to burn under carefully control...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWild Horses: Public Property?
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Science, Geography, Ecology & Ecosystems, Life Sciences, History-Social ScienceThis Xpeditions lesson introduces students to the challenge of maintaining balance among the "competing" species that coexist on...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhy Are Species Endangered?
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Science, Life Sciences, Ecology & EcosystemsThis lesson from Science NetLinks is the first of a two-part series on endangered species. This first lesson introduces and expl...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: DocumentPopulation Growth Group
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Science, Geography, History-Social ScienceThis student reproducible, from Science NetLinks, contains questions related to population growth patterns and trends. Students ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWild-Farm Salmon Hybrids Not Reaching Spawning Grounds?
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Geography, Ecology & Ecosystems, Life Sciences, History-Social Science and 2 additional..In this National Geographic News article, read about the impact of aquaculture on the Atlantic salmon. Scientists think that int...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWildfire!
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Science, Ecology & Ecosystems, Life SciencesRead about wildfires in this National Geographic WORLD story. Should they be allowed to burn or should we put them out? Give you...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEcology and Biome Unit
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Science, Earth & Space Science, Life Sciences, Ecology & EcosystemsIn this Access Excellence activity, students learn about biomes, communities, and human ecology. They research various aspects o...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLast Plant Standing: Farming for the Future
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Science, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Life Sciences, Career & Technical EdThis resource, from Television Trust for the Environment, focuses on farming for the future. The article discusses the future ch...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWildfire Fuels Debate Over Land-Burning in Africa
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Geography, Ecology & Ecosystems, Life Sciences, History-Social Science and 2 additional..In this National Geographic News article, read about the impact of fire on the biodiversity of Madagascar. When fire engulfed t...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhy Preserve Biodiversity?
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Science, Geography, Ecology & Ecosystems, Life Sciences, History-Social ScienceIn this lesson, students discuss the importance of maintaining ecosystems and find out about the various arguments that people m...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMussel Your Way Through Photosynthesis
Grades: 9 to 10Subjects: Science, Life SciencesIn this Access Excellence activity, students investigate photosynthesis. Students perform an experiment to observe the results o...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPopulation Dynamics E-Sheet
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Science, History-Social ScienceThis E-Sheet, from a Science NetLinks lesson, contains activities in which students explore patterns of population growth. Stude...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBiodiversity Expert Urges "Buying" of Endangered Ecosystems
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Geography, Life Sciences, Ecology & Ecosystems, History-Social Science and 2 additional..With plant and animal species disappearing from the Earth at unprecedented rates, biodiversity expert E.O. Wilson has proposed a...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSquirrel Hoarding
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Science, Ecology & Ecosystems, Life SciencesIn this Science Update, from Science NetLinks, you'll hear about how the loss of gray squirrels is affecting forests. Science Up...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGeography Awareness Week 2000: Oceans
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Geography, Ecology & Ecosystems, Life Sciences and 2 additional..This page from National Geographic was created as a resource for Geography Awareness Week 2000, which is based on the theme of c...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Best Hope for Northern Right Whales
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Science, Geography, Ecology & Ecosystems, Life Sciences, History-Social ScienceIn this lesson, from Xpeditions, students research current and proposed methods of assisting the recovery of northern right whal...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCoral Bleaching: Making Our Oceans Whiter
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Science, Geography, Life Sciences, History-Social ScienceIn this lesson from Xpeditions, students learn what coral reefs are and about the different types of reefs, study the ecology su...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHuman Impacts in the African Rainforest: What We Can Do
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Science, Geography, Ecology & Ecosystems, History-Social ScienceThis lesson, from Xpeditions, asks students to examine the human impacts that conservationist Michael Fay noticed on his Congo T...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhale Birth Decline Tied to Global Warming, Study Says
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Geography, Life Sciences, Ecology & Ecosystems, History-Social Science and 2 additional..In this National Geographic News article, read about how rising sea-surface temperatures may be harming the reproductive success...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTsunami Barriers
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Science, Earth & Space Science, Ecology & EcosystemsIn this Science Update, from Science NetLinks, you'll hear about how humans may have unwittingly aggravated some of the damage d...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0