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Holly Barlaam

Blood Squirting Lizard - 5 views

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    Cool video about blood squirting horned lizards. Could be worked into lessons on ecology, evolution, etc.
Martin Burrett

Ecology Lab - 4 views

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    "An interesting food chain/web simulator to help your pupils understand the interdependence within an ecosystem."
Roland Gesthuizen

Food Chain on Vimeo - 4 views

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    "Learn how some animals eat other plants and animals to survive and create a food chain, with this interactive lesson plan."
Roland Gesthuizen

Who wants to live alongside sabre-toothed tigers? - opinion - 22 March 2013 - New Scien... - 1 views

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    "Recreating extinct species using DNA may become feasible, but it won't resolve our fraught relationship with our environment, warns writer Frank Swain"
Roland Gesthuizen

Food chain on Vimeo - 5 views

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    "This is a short CGI animation. A mouse eats the grass and a bird eats the mouse. On the top of the food chain there are only the strongest and the biggest. Or are they? Music by: Johann Strauss, Rossini."
Martin Burrett

Foodchain Game - 7 views

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    A lovely science activity about food chains. Click and drag the creatures to the correct positions. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
Sandra Goodrich

Postmodern Beatnik · Why sit in a tree? - 2 views

  • private property rights and the pursuit of profit do not trump the needs of our communities and our planet.
  • the earth is alive and we are all interconnected, to nature and to each other. When we live from this new/old story, the world looks very different—and we can no longer accept business as usual.
  • in order to change this business as usual, we’ve got to change the story we have about who we are and how the world works. We act as though the earth were a dead ball of matter spinning through the cosmos and running like a machine and as though human beings were truly autonomous actors independent not only of the environment but of each other.
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  • property rights are attenuated by the concept of stewardship, which requires property owners to maintain the ecological integrity of their land for the benefit of all.
  • bring attention to this larger picture.
  • bullying in public life has become all too common.
Roland Gesthuizen

Two-Liter Creek > Innovative Uses > Vernier Software & Technology - 1 views

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    John Fischer, Ashwaubenon HS, Green Bay, WI, has created an artificial "Two Liter Creek" in his classroom for water quality studies in the middle of a Wisconsin winter. It is simply a 50-gallon aquarium with a pump that lifts water into an array of 15 two-liter bottles that have been mounted on a pegboard.
Sean Nash

NYC Street Trees by Species - 2 views

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    A very cool dynamic data set laid atop a map of the streets of New Your City... "New York City's urban forest provides numerous environmental and social benefits, and street trees compose roughly one quarter of that canopy. This map shows the distribution and biodiversity of the city's street trees based on the last tree census."
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