BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Living Things and Their Needs: We Need Water
This lesson focuses on living things' need for water. Students make lemonade and learn that water can be found in liquids other than a glass of water, and is also found in plants. The lesson can be downloaded in PDF format.
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Adaptations of Desert Plants
The ways in which plants have adapted through evolution in order to survive in a desert environment are described in this article. Getting water and retaining water are key to their survival, including protecting themselves from animals...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Water Safari
Students are challenged to search for and find plants and animals that live in a mangrove forest.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Animals and Plants Can Live in a City!
For this interactive lesson, students learn that animals need air, food, water, and shelter, while plants need air, sunlight, and water. Students watch videos and engage with drawing and sorting activities to reinforce their learning....
Australian Museum
Australian Museum: Animals
This online site for the Australian Museum introduces the nature and culture of this unique continent. This particular section focuses on the creatures of Australia including spiders, fish, birds, reptiles, mammals, insects, frogs,...
Other
Southern African Water Crisis: Some Grassland Facts
Here you can read a fact sheet on South African grasslands. Content includes a look at origins, water supply, plants and animals, economics, and current conservation status.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: How Clean Is That Water?
This lesson plan helps students understand the factors that affect water quality and the conditions that allow for different animals and plants to survive. Students will look at the effects of water quality on various water-related...
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Water Pollution: Groundwater
Explains what groundwater is, how and where it occurs, how the quality of our groundwater is being affected by human activities, and the detrimental impact this has on plants and animals. (Updated: February 22, 2012)
My Science Site
Pond Water Plants and Animals [Pdf]
This resource depicts some pond water plants and animals one might happen to spot while peering through their microscope lense. This resource is in PDF form; requires Adobe Reader.
PBS
Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Ocean Zones
Discover more about the underocean environment at this site that surveys animals, environmental factors such as light and temperature, currents, animals, plants, and the like.
Other
Protect Your Waters: Non Native Species Impacts
This site offers a complete explanation of how invasive animals and plants impact many of the different things valued by Americans. The economic impact is enormous and estimated to be about $100 billion dollars per year.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Race for Life: Plant Adaptations
This is an outdoors, hands-on activity. Create a short race course to engage students in physical activity while drawing comparisons to the plant kingdom. This activity serves as an introductory to the impact small changes can have on...
Other
Florida Department of Environmental Protection: Life in a Spring
Learn all about the diverse species that live in the Florida Springs. Separate sections for fish, reptiles and amphibians, birds and mammals, insects and invertebrates, and plants.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Themepark: Cycles
This is a large collection of resources on cycles of nature and the Earth. There is a constant exchange of the elements between air, earth, water, plants, and animals. Most biological processes wind up back where they started. These...
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: The Planet Protectors: Activities for Kids
Through this EPA resource, explore your environment and discover the animals, plants, air, and water around you. Learn how to protect the world we live in with fun games.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Who Needs What?
The teacher leads a discussion in which students identify the physical needs of animals, and then speculate on the needs of plants. With guidance from the teacher, the students then help design an experiment that can take place in the...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Environmental Engineering
In this unit, students explore the various roles of environmental engineers, including: environmental cleanup, water quality, groundwater resources, surface water and groundwater flow, water contamination, waste disposal and air...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Probing an Aquatic Ecosystem
In this activity, students' use a pH sensor and Temperature Sensor to measure and compare the pH and temperature of three aquariums over a period of several weeks. They will compare and understand how plants and animals affect the water...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: Ocean Planet
Detailed website that was a companion to a 1995 traveling exhibit of the Smithsonian. Links to lesson plans and other educational materials are at the bottom of the page. Enter the exhibition to explore the world of the ocean.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Living Things and Their Needs Teacher's Guide
This is a free downloadable teacher's guide (PDF) to teach young children (grades K-2) about living things and their needs.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian National Zoo: Zoogoer Magazine: Teeming Life in Gabon's Rainforest
The article, "Teeming Life in Gabon's Rainforest," covers a variety of topics related to rain forest life including A Plethora of Plants, What's in the Water, New and Exciting Herps, Birds in the Mist (Nets), Magnificent Mammals, and more.
Texas Parks and Wildlife
Texas Parks & Wildlife Department: Wildlife
Here you will find a description of many types of wildlife species living in Texas. Clicking on the underlined words will direct you to links to related topics. Browse through the website (land and water) to discover aquatic species and...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Eekoworld
Interactive website from PBS Kids teaches students age 6-9 about a number of ecological topics and the role they play in protecting the environment. Topics include recycling, the environment, air and water, plants and animals, and the...
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Adaptations, Interdependence and Competition Aqa
The abundance and distribution of organisms in an ecosystem is determined by biotic and abiotic factors. Animals and plants have adaptations to allow them to compete for resources.