Crossing Boundaries

David Attenborough presents the amazing lyre bird, which mimics the calls of other birds - and chainsaws and camera shutters

U.S. world population, current population estimates for the United States and the world, population clocks.

Global Climate Change: NASA's Eyes on the Earth. Current news and data streams about global warming and climate change from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

United Nations Environment Program homepage

This AMNH resource collection takes students into the field and engages them in life science research: the inventory of plants and arthropods outside their own backdoors. Resources in this collection include lesson plans, profiles of scientists and Museum staff, essays, and Web-based interactives that help students explore, analyze, and apply their field observations.

biodiversity, who cares

Students use current Earth image data to explain the movement of land animals tracked by satellites.

cut intro to global climate change

PBS short Video of an ingenious community water pump project in Africa- The Play Pump

Kids' Inquiry of Diverse Species by the University of Michigan

Signals of Spring-ACES captures the interest of middle and high school students. They learn formal science, but in the context of the ocean. Uses activities with NOAA remote sensing data improves environmental and ocean literacy.

Human Footprint reveals the lifetime consumption of an average American including the resources needed to produce, package and transport everything consumed.

Lab activity calculating diversity index for different ecosystems.

lessons and materials involved with carbon movement and mitigation

NCSR is a national clearinghouse for natural resource curriculum materials used by college faculty and high school science teachers. Materials cover major subject areas of environmental science and natural resources. They include fisheries, forestry, wildlife, and environmental science topics used in college programs.