Activity
Songs for Teaching

Songs for Teaching: Biomes

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Use this site to see how many of the animals and plants that your students can remember from each biome after listening to this song.
Handout
Other

42 Explore: Trees and Forests

For Students 3rd - 8th
This is a site with links covering multiple areas of tree and plant study. Great illustrations and information.
Website
US Geological Survey

Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center

For Students 9th - 10th
The Great Plains organization provides individuals, organizations, and governments with key information about the Great Plains environment through a resource pool of publications, reports, and government data.
Graphic
Curated OER

Spruce Forest

For Students 3rd - 8th
Here you can find a great fact sheet on the taiga biome! Learn what the taiga is, where it's located, and the types of plants and animals that live there!
Handout
University of California

Ucmp: Systematics

For Students 9th - 10th
Scientific descriptions of conifer families. Diagrams, examples, structural features, and history.
Graphic
Curated OER

Etc: Maps Etc: Vegetation of North America, 1916

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1916 of North America, Central America, Greenland, and the Caribbean to Puerto Rico showing the general distribution of vegetation types in the region. The map is color-coded to show natural vegetation in areas of ice desert,...
Graphic
Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Vegetation Map of Europe, 1916

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of Europe showing areas of different types of natural vegetation including tundra and alpine flora, coniferous forests, broadleaf forests and meadows, temperate grasslands, deserts, and oases.