Crossing Boundaries

This site offers video clips, lesson plans, and animations of biological processes.

another one to revisit http://www.teachersdomain.org/ this gives lots more links rather than just life science

An interesting impact of the US on unsustainable resource harvesting in Latin America. Chicle, a primary ingredient in chewing gum is likely depleted in 25-40 years at the current rate.

This might be a good source of examples of scientists doing cool work.

New York Nature Explorer is an online tool for finding out about the animals, plants and habitats in your neighborhood or in your area of interest. Users may choose a county, town, or watershed, or they may specify their own location on a map. They will then receive a list of the animals, plants, and significant natural communities that have been found there, as documented in databases maintained by NYS DEC.

inquiry-based curriculum resources about wind energy, including potential impacts on wildlife

Naturalists who capture their observations on videotape (or other digital media) are invited to publish their work online in short video-annotated stories.

Naturalists who capture their observations on videotape (or other digital media) are invited to publish their work online in short video-annotated stories.

poster map of Eastern U.S. forests, protected lands, and risks

map of Eastern U.S. forests, protected lands, and risks

fact sheet on how climate change affects birds

This has links for the regional maps used in activity 1 from August 25, 2009 Introduction to Bird Population Trends.

Students consider sampling strategies that work best using virtual forests.

United Nations Environment Program homepage

US ecoregions and impacts of climate change

Animal Diversity Web is an online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan

Information about a variety of animals

student created podcasts

international electronic pen-pal connections based on topics including biodiversity

bad maps

From Cartastrophe Blog: "Yesterday evening, I was having a conversation with one of my roommates about Beaver Island, which lay in the north of Lake Michigan. It's a sizable chunk of land with some interesting history. It was, at one point in the 19th century, home to a kingdom inhabited by a breakaway Latter-Day Saints sect, until the US government facilitated the assassination of its eccentric ruler and the ejection of the Mormon settlers. While mentioning the island to my roommate, I pulled up Google Maps in order to show him where it is. Except it wasn't there. An entire archipelago, in fact, was missing from the map."

This is a nice explanation that ties right back to Aldo Leopold's ideas about what good is nature? It's good in and of itself.

Great video about Robert Glennon's new book "Unquenchable" and the increasing water crisis in the U.S.

Library of Congress - maps related to conservation and the environment

New York Nature Explorer is an online tool for finding out about the animals, plants and habitats in your neighborhood or area of interest. As a gateway to biodiversity information, it is intended for landowners, land managers, citizens, municipal officials, planners, consultants, project developers, researchers, students, and anyone else interested in the natural world. Nature Explorer currently contains information on birds, reptiles, amphibians, rare animals, rare plants, and significant natural communities.

Nature Explorer currently contains information on birds, reptiles, amphibians, rare animals, rare plants, and significant natural communities.