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Our simulated labs exploring eutrophication and toxin biomagnification, fire regimes and succession, and investigating general ecological principles such as population growth, species interactions and community structure provide a great way to add active learning experiences to environmental science courses. Several labs were developed for non-majors and introductory classes, including our Darwinian Snails EvoBeaker® lab which provides a unique opportunity to teach natural selection using an invasive species example.

Lab report guidance. Students/instructors can print out check lists of what a lab needs as well as explanations of all parts. High end hs/collegiate in nature. Read the powerpoint provided for a quick overview.

This is my students all time favorite lab. Students don't understand the full economic or scientific impact of the mining industry until they have gone through this simulation. It's sort of like a geologic monopoly game. It is based in part on the ROA activity and similar activities in various earth science books.

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

This is a lab on designing an experiment to desalinate water.

Decent jumping off place to use when designing a hs lab report rubric. It contains all possible component categories which could be edited down for less involved reports

PASCO's labs and experiments for all probes, all grade levels

Mystery checks lab, good for the nature of science. Use this in APES and Forensic science

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.

Good sample college ecology lab showing a format to aspire to, if not attain in high school. Is is about beavers,what could be better than thtt?

Interesting site..good perhaps for ideas or use with those students who become home-bound. This environmental science laboratory course is specifically designed for practical applications of science using readily available household materials. This course provides the learner with firsthand experience of important scientific aspects of environmental studies, including air quality, ecological concerns, waste-management issues, and energy consumption and conservation.

Source of climate info and labs

Okay this is a novel one...and maybe a bit ghoulish. This allows you to search cemeteries by country or state (county) for tombs stone records. VERY cool for cemetery lab. Makes comparisons by regions/country possible ...

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

My favorite teacher websites to beg, borrow, steal from? MY WEBSITE (check out review links): http://nhs-nvusd-ca.schoolloop.com/cms/page_view?d=x&piid=&vpid=1316679699106 Bodas -- http://teachers.sduhsd.k12.ca.us/bbodas/welcome_to_ap_environmental_scie.htm And lots more APES teacher's websites! http://www.lcusd.org/lchs/mewoldsen/APES/APESTeachersWebsites.htm And this Virtual Ballooning website lesson (gave you the lab handout): http://www.windows2universe.org/earth/Atmosphere/balloon_atmostrata.html

Virtual Simulations in Biomagnification Tragedy of the Commons and Fragmentation

Smithsonian museum resources for education

Expensive ($800 for unlimited use over 3 years-4 labs) but outstanding simulations of Isle Royale, Paine keystone species tide pool, and pollution.