Selected Ecology Web Sites

Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge Plans
gopher://informns.k12.mn.us:70/11/mn-k12/mvnwr/lessons

This is a link to a storehouse of great elementary and secondary school lesson plans on a wide range of ecology topics.

Science and the Environment - A Learning Tool
http://www.cais.net/publish/voyage.htm

This bi-monthly on-line magazine specializes in providing world news summaries on a wide array of environmental issues. Designed for high school educators and students, stories are written in a concise format -- complete with colorful photos and graphics.

Solid Waste Activities
gopher://nceet.snre.umich.edu:777/11/activities/cornell

This gopher site contains various activities for K-12 classroom ecology lessons on solid waste.

South Carolina Department of Natural Resources
http://water.dnr.state.sc.us/

The SCDNR web site is an excellent resource for an ecology class. Learn all about a variety of topics ranging from wildlife management to endangered species.

Terraquest
http://www.terraquest.com/

Terraquest is an interactive virtual expedition on the Internet. Virtual Antarctica and Virtual Galapagos are truly wonderful resources for any level science class interested in learning about plants, animals, ecology, and geography of these areas. Great expedition photos and maps!! Highest recommendation.

Texas Environmental Center
http://www.tec.org/

This site contains Texas environmental information including pollution, water quality resources, documentaries, and more! The highlight of this web site is an Internet magazine featuring profiles and perspectives on student environmental endeavors. Teacher lesson plans on ecology topics are found here.

The Butterfly Website
http://mgfx.com/butterfly/

Just about everything that you ever wanted to know about butterflies can be found here. Great graphics of butterflies. This is a good site to learn about the ecology of butterflies.

The GLOBE Program -
Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment

http://www.globe.gov/

Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) is a worldwide network of students, teachers, and scientists working together to study and understand the global environment. Students conduct an array of measurements and observations at their schools and share their data via the Internet with other students and scientists around the world to detail an environmental picture of the globe. An excellent way for your students to contribute data to a unique ecology project on the Internet.

Water on the Web (WOW)
http://wow.nrri.umn.edu/

WOW provides high school and undergraduate students with an opportunity to learn science and mathematics and technology while using near real-time and archived water quality data to monitor Minnesota lakes over the Internet.

Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change
http://www.co2science.org/


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