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I've worked with these folks at UW and tested their "Halobacteria" Labs in my classroom. If you're in a low-income school, they'll send you everything for free. Halobacteria are a great, resiliant model organism to grow in your classroom. Also Sea Monkeys (Brine Shrimp) love them and you can do a whole salty ecological community. They have lots of modules on Systems Thinking and dyanamic biological and environmental systems. Love their "cell phone" unit.

Impressive time series photos showing change in population growth, desertification, receding glaciers, more.

Three nice videos..manta rays, underwater volcano and a WWII wreck dive

Very nice job on this! I will definitely use it in class. This video can be embedded (via vimeo please) on third-party websites as long as you credit me (Samuel Orr) as the filmmaker, and please mention the kickstarter project. Contact me if you want to feature the film or excerpts in broadcast media.

Video of infographics of wealth in America.

Explore turbines and set up your own wind farm.

Join Leo, the young pig who wonders if he is "the one", Chickity, the feathered family farm defender, and Moopheus, the trench-coat-clad cow with a passion for green pastures as they expose the problems with factory farming while making the world safe for sustainable family farms. The Meatrix, translated into over 30 languages, is a worldwide phenomenon! These are three 2-3 minute animations on factory farming - an interesting way to introduce CAFO/factory farming.

The Breathing Earth simulation Welcome to Breathing Earth. This real-time simulation displays the CO2 emissions of every country in the world, as well as their birth and death rates. Please remember that this is just a simulation.

Resource to get US climographs

Energy Flow Charts from Lawrence Livermore labs that depicts energy use and sources by states and countries over various years

Clue into Climate: A Digital Media-Based Curriculum Unit on Climate Change was created with input from San Francisco Bay Area teachers and advisors. The curriculum unit is comprised of four content strands, each of which includes 5-7 media resources related to the strand topic. Each strand also contains a strand guide and assessment, a background article and 4-5 lesson plans that provide information and activities to support the use of the media with students. Additionally, the curriculum unit provides a student workbook and a climate education resource guide.

Interesting digest of n article

PEI provides the highest quality professional development to educators in Washington, enabling them to bring their students into the outdoors.

wiki space. Not sure how 'active' this site still is. The blog questions are still valuable resoures to get students thinking in a FRQ mode.

APES appropriate online labs on carbon, demographics, disease, ecology and energy