Geographypods
Geographypods: Introduction to Ecosystems and Biomes
Using worksheets, images, videos, and internet resources, students will be able to learn the names and locations of the seven major global biomes in the correct order from polar regions to the equator.
Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy: From America's Rainforest to America's Desert
On this virtual field trip, teachers will help their students travel to the lush, rain-soaked splendor of the Olympic Peninsula and explore the urban watershed of Seattle. Next, they will head to Arizona's dry, desert landscape and take...
The Wild Classroom
The Wild Classroom: Biomes of the World: Desert Scrub Biome
Learn about the desert scrub ecosystem. Find out about plants, animals, adaptations, and conservation efforts.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Biome in a Baggie
This ZOOMSci video segment shows how to create self-contained environments and explore how plants grow under different conditions. [3:24]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Ecology: Communities and Ecosystems
This is a collection of courses on communities and ecosystems. Some topics explored are productivity, food webs, and ecology. The courses offer video clips, lecture notes, practice problems, and exam questions. Practice problems and exam...
Utah Education Network
Uen: P H Changes in a Small Ecosystem
A pond water/hay infusion will be developed and observed. Student groups will add a range of acid and base solutions to look for changes.
The Wild Classroom
The Wild Classroom: Biomes of the World: Lakes and Ponds
Learn about lake and pond ecosystems. Find out about plants, animals, adaptations, and conservation efforts.
Untamed Science
Untamed Science: Biology: World Biomes: Pelagic Biome
Learn about the different zones of the open ocean, the pelagic biome, and what organisms call each zone home.
The Wild Classroom
The Wild Classroom: Biomes of the World: Streams and Rivers
Learn about stream and river ecosystems. Find out about plants, animals, adaptations, and conservation efforts.
Untamed Science
Untamed Science: Biology: World Biomes: Intertidal Zone: Aquatic Biome
Learn about the flora and fauna of the intertidal aquatic zone and the characteristics that describe this aquatic biome through reading and watching video clips. [6:42]
Untamed Science
Untamed Science: Biology: World Biomes: Estuaries Biome
Make learning about Earth's biomes fun and easy with video clips, photographs, and diagrams. Learn about estuaries, the water environments formed where freshwater from rivers or streams mix salt ocean water. [6:38]
Other
Introduction to Biomes
This site provides an introduction to biomes. There are also links to each different type of biome.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: At Home in a Biome
This lesson allows students to study and learn the names and characteristics of Earth's six major biomes. The biomes are introduced with a slideshow presentation. A paper-folding poster activity gives students the opportunity to...
The Franklin Institute
Franklin Institute: Ecosystems, Biomes, and Habitats
This site is provided for by The Franklin Institute Online. "Open the door and step into your ecosystem." Content describes ecosystems and related material such as biomes, habitats, energy cycle, extinction, recycling, and more.
American Institute of Biological Sciences
Action Bioscience: The State of Ecosystems
Christian Samper details The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a report highlighting the detrimental impact of human life on the ecosystems of Earth over the past fifty years. Ecosystems have been deteriorating from a variety of waste and...
Other
Biology at Shaw High School: What Do Living Things Need to Survive?
Discusses the interrelatedness of all living things and of ecosystems and biomes, and what organisms need to survive and to maximize the carrying capacity of an ecosystem. This explanation is followed by a series of activities including...
Untamed Science
Untamed Science: Biology: World Biomes: Deep Sea Biome
Read about the different zones and life in the deep sea as well as watch videos and examine photos of this aquatic biome. [5:54]
Science Struck
Science Struck: Facts About the Marine Biome
Describes the characteristics of the marine biome, the plants and animals that live in each of the four ocean zones, coral reefs and estuaries, the climate of the marine biome, and the marine food web.
University of California
University of California Berkeley: Ecosystem Equilibrium
A simulator reviewing over the concepts of ecosystem equilibrium.
Other
Marietta College: Biology: Energy Flow Through the Ecosystem
Read to understand how energy and inorganic nutrients flow through a food chain in an ecosystem.
Ohio State University
Ohio State University: General Plant Biology: Biomes and Agriculture
An introduction to biomes and how agriculture is considered in studying large ecosystems of the world. Text is well written and easy to follow with links, charts, and pictures.
Morning Earth
Biosphere as Place: Ocean Benthic Biomes One
Students investigate the Biology topic of ecosystems. The marine ecosystem tutorial consists of definitions, pictures, and examples of different ocean-benthic biomes.
Other
My Science Box: Ecosystem Organization
In this lesson, young scholars will learn about the different levels in the hierarchy of ecology and explain the relationships: organism, population, community, ecosystem, biome, and biosphere. They will also discover why different...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Environments and Ecosystems
Learners explore the biosphere and its associated environments and ecosystems in the context of creating a model ecosystem, learning along the way about the animals and resources. Students investigate different types of ecosystems, learn...