TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Ecology at Work
Students learn how rooftop gardens help the environment and the lives of people, especially in urban areas. They gain an understanding of how plants reduce the urban heat island effect, improve air quality, provide agriculture space,...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Ecological Succession
This tutorial is an exploration of primary and seconday succession.
Other
Ny Botanical Garden: Fungal and Plant Diversity
Findings of an expedition by the New York Botanical Garden in French Guiana to investigate vegetation.
Colorado State University
Gardening & Horticulture in Denver: Gardening With Children
The section on plant projects for kids has lots of hands-on ideas for studying plant biology. Activities are included for stages from seed germination to growth. Geared more to the younger student.
Canadian Museum of Nature
Canadian Museum of Nature: Native Plant Gardening
Plants native to Canada that would do well in small, ecologically friendly gardens are presented here. There are several plants each for ponds, meadows and woodlands. Each plant has a popup window with facts about it.
Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden: Water Pollution
Water pollution occurs when a body of water is adversely affected due to the addition of large amounts of materials to the water. The sources of water pollution are categorized as being a point source or a non-source point of pollution....
Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botantical Garden: Sponges!
This site from The Evergreen Project gives an easy to understand description of the Sponges.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: How Should Our Gardens Grow?
In this lesson plan, students will learn about types of land use by humans and evaluate the ways land is used in their local community. They will also consider the environmental effects of the different types of land use. Students will...
Cosmo Learning
Cosmo Learning: Sustainable Living
A collection of video lectures from a unique course taught at the University of California, Los Angeles on sustainable living. The lectures range in topics from food systems to organic gardens. The lecturers also vary in their expertise...
Other
National Science Digital Library: Smile: Habitat Overcrowding
Experiment with crowd control in a garden. Students will test what happens to radish plants observing who survives, who gets the most food, water and sunlight.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Habitat Network: Tabula Rasa: Design Challenge
Design Challenge takes photos of tricky spots in people's yards and puts them out there for advice from the professionals at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Check out the ecological possibilities with this blank slate.
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: Rousseau in the Jungle
Rousseau imagined Tropical Forest with Monkeys from trips to botanical gardens, zoos, and illustrations in books. Young scholars will conduct research and imagine themselves in a place other than where they live. They also will...
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Habitat Network: Leaf Litter
Leaf-litter plays many important ecological roles. Find out some of the ways leaves are secretly at work in your gardens and parks.