Handout
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Watching the Seasons Change: Spring

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is an appropriate resource for investigating the impact seasonal change has on organisms. Have your students track the changes that come with spring by journaling. The online table addresses physical changes in the environment...
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Other

Australian Tourism: Facts and Planning

For Students 3rd - 8th
This is the official website for Australian tourism. It presents facts about Australia's geography, weather and climate, time zones, currency, and plants and animals, accompanied by excellent imagery. A useful feature of this page is...
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Curated OER

Bureau of Land Management: Alaska's Cold Desert

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the Arctic tundra biome of Alaska. A discussion of its characteristics, and the animals and the plants that live there.
eBook
Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Earth and Sky: Spring Comes to the Desert

For Students K - 1st
Learn about springtime in the desert and the plants and animals that live there. Book includes audio narration in 20 additional languages with text in English.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Themepark: Cycles

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
Handout
PBS

Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Temperate Deciduous Forests

For Students Pre-K - 1st
NatureWorks offers some fascinating information about the Temperate Deciduous Forests. Students and teachers will learn what makes these forests special, what animals live in this biome, what plants grow in this biome, and more.
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Polar Discovery: Compare the Poles

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed comparison of many aspects of the two polar regions. Includes physical features, seasons, weather, types of ice, plants and animals, human population, and climate change.
Activity
Tramline

Virtual Field Trip: Temperate Forest Biome

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Travel with your students on a Virtual Field Trip to learn about Temperate Forest Biomes. You will also discover many informative and interactive websites.
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Phenology and Nature's Shifting Rhythms

For Students 9th - 10th
With rapidly rising global temperatures come seasonal changes. As spring comes earlier for some plant species, there are ripple effects throughout the food web. Regina Brinker explains how phenology, or the natural cycles of plants and...
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Other

Ecuador 365

For Students 9th - 10th
Enjoy a photographic journey through Ecuador in all seasons. You can travel from the jungle - full of exotic plants and animals - to the highlands with their immense snow-covered and still active volcanoes- all these you can see in...
Graphic
Curated OER

Etc: Maps Etc: Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies, 1898

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1898 of Mexico, Central America and the West Indies. The map includes an inset map of Cuba and the Isthmus of Nicaragua. "The surface of the Rocky Mountain highland in Mexico is quite similar to that of the great plateau...
Graphic
Curated OER

Bird in Cuyabeno, Ecuador

For Students 9th - 10th
Enjoy a photographical journey through Ecuador in all seasons. You can travel from the jungle - full of exotic plants and animals - to the highlands with their immense snow-covered and still active volcanoes- all these you can see in...
Graphic
Curated OER

Ecuador

For Students 9th - 10th
Enjoy a photographical journey through Ecuador in all seasons. You can travel from the jungle - full of exotic plants and animals - to the highlands with their immense snow-covered and still active volcanoes- all these you can see in...
Graphic
Curated OER

Land Iguana

For Students 9th - 10th
Enjoy a photographical journey through Ecuador in all seasons. You can travel from the jungle - full of exotic plants and animals - to the highlands with their immense snow-covered and still active volcanoes- all these you can see in...
Graphic
Curated OER

Cuenca Domes

For Students 9th - 10th
Enjoy a photographical journey through Ecuador in all seasons. You can travel from the jungle - full of exotic plants and animals - to the highlands with their immense snow-covered and still active volcanoes- all these you can see in...
Graphic
Curated OER

Ecuador

For Students 9th - 10th
Enjoy a photographical journey through Ecuador in all seasons. You can travel from the jungle - full of exotic plants and animals - to the highlands with their immense snow-covered and still active volcanoes- all these you can see in...
Graphic
Curated OER

Ecuador Young Boy

For Students 9th - 10th
Enjoy a photographical journey through Ecuador in all seasons. You can travel from the jungle - full of exotic plants and animals - to the highlands with their immense snow-covered and still active volcanoes- all these you can see in...