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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Natural History of Water in America
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Geography, Ecology & Ecosystems, Science, Life SciencesIn this article, from the National Wildlife Federation Web site, author Jessica Snyder Sachs explains the fragile linkage that e...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkState of Thirst: California's Water Future
Grades: 5 to 6, 9 to 12Subjects: Environmental Issues, Earth & Space Science, Life SciencesAre we in danger of running out of water? California's population is growing by 600,000 people per year, but much of the state r...Contributor: KQEDViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkChanging Nature's Course: A Look at the Kissimmee River
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Geography, History-Social Science, ScienceIn this Xpeditions lesson, students learn about the ways in which humans modify the natural environment. They examine the Kissim...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLow-level Nuclear Waste: A Geographic Analysis
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Health Education, Earth & Space Science, Geography, History-Social Science, ScienceIn this Xpeditions lesson, students learn how to analyze the problems surrounding nuclear waste. They compare and contrast low- ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Fish Trade
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Economics, Number Sense, History-Social Science, Life Sciences and 2 additional..The purpose of this lesson, from Science NetLinks, is to examine the interdependence of global trade in the context of the econo...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkYellowstone Wolves
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Number Sense, History-Social Science, Ecology & Ecosystems, Life Sciences and 2 additional..The purpose of this lesson, from Science NetLinks, is to use the Internet to explore relationships between habitats and species ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWho Pays the Price When a Sea Disappears?
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Geography, History-Social Science, Ecology & Ecosystems, ScienceThis Xpeditions lesson asks students to learn about the problems in the Aral Sea region and to figure out how the sea's water lo...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPreserving Biodiversity
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Geography, History-Social Science, Life Sciences, ScienceIn this student activity from, Xpeditions, students take on the role of zoo director with a mission to teach people about the im...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWild Horses: Public Property?
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Geography, Ecology & Ecosystems, Science, Life SciencesThis Xpeditions lesson introduces students to the challenge of maintaining balance among the "competing" species that coexist on...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTree Torture
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Ecology & Ecosystems, Life Sciences, ScienceIn this Science Update, from Science NetLinks, you'll hear about research being done to keep Arizona's San Pedro River from dryi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWorking Together for the Manatee
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: History-Social Science, Geography, Ecology & Ecosystems, Science, Life SciencesIn this lesson, from Xpeditions, students use the Internet to research the manatee to find out why it is endangered. They write ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Best Hope for Northern Right Whales
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Geography, History-Social Science, Ecology & Ecosystems, Life Sciences, 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 / HyperLinkHuman Impacts in the African Rainforest: What We Can Do
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Geography, History-Social Science, Ecology & Ecosystems, 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 / HyperLinkWhy Are Species Endangered?
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Ecology & Ecosystems, Life Sciences, ScienceThis 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: Website / HyperLinkCoral Bleaching: Making Our Oceans Whiter
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Geography, History-Social Science, Life Sciences, 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 / HyperLinkAbrupt Climate Change
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Number Sense, Earth & Space Science, ScienceThis Science NetLinks lesson focuses on a current issue in science in order to help students understand the process by which sci...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkRivers: Lifelines of the Land
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Geography, History-Social Science, Ecology & Ecosystems, Life Sciences, ScienceThis Xpeditions lesson introduces students to river ecology and addresses the societal and environmental impacts associated with...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWildlife Conflicts
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Geography, Ecology & Ecosystems, ScienceIn this lesson, from Xpeditions, students learn about the conflicts relating to humans and wildlife in prairie habitats. Student...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkRoad Rubber
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Health Education, Ecology & Ecosystems, Chemistry, ScienceIn this Science Update, from Science NetLinks, you'll hear a toxicologist describe research being done to find out how rubber pa...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSquirrel Hoarding
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Ecology & Ecosystems, Life Sciences, ScienceIn 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