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"Multimedia resources explain little known societal benefits of biodiversity, bust myths and describe new, high-tech approaches for measuring impacts of environmental change on biodiversity"

This website explains the high-tech systems used by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology to hear, monitor, and protect endangered North Atlantic right whales, and you can see live info about where these whales have been detected within the past 24 hours.

"Let kids discover things on their own. Let them solve problems. One way to do this is ask questions about maps. But not just regular, turn to page 47 in your geography textbook kind of maps. But, you know, cool maps. So here ya go. A world map using only the locations of the world's runways, helicopter pads and airports." What questions can you ask? How about: Where are the developing countries? How do you know? Does location make a difference in who has access to knowledge? Does this matter? How does access to electricity impact how people live?

"I'll bet the service saved me a couple hours" -PCWorld "Ninite.com frees up your day" -The Christian Science Monitor "This post can be fairly short because Ninite works exactly as advertised." -Lifehacker The easiest way to keep apps up-to-date. It's different than other updaters. We only add popular user-requested apps to Ninite.

"A Moment of Science is a daily audio podcast, public radio program and video series providing the scientific story behind some of life's most perplexing mysteries. "

developed for a course entitled "Ecology for Teachers". This distance-ed graduate level course is designed for in-service high school teachers enrolled in a Multidiscplinary Science Masters Degree offered at Texas Tech University. This course is intended to provide teachers with the background necessary to teach ecology content at the high school level. My philosophy is that teachers are the experts in the pedagogies that are most effective for teaching their students. My job in this course is to provide the content knowledge necessary for teachers to be able to create effective learning opportunities for their students.