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Thurston High School: Tundra Project
High school student site that describes and illustrates the tundra biome with such topics as climate, location, vegetation, health issues, and animals.
Center for Educational Technologies
Wheeling Jesuit University: Arctic Tundra Biome
Provides text and pictures on the arctic tundra, its animals, plants, and their adaptations.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Tundra
Find out the basics of the Tundra biome, including the climate, location, and characteristic animals and plants living there.
University of California
Ucmp: The World's Biomes
The University of California Museum of Paleontology hosts this site devoted to the study of the earth's biomes, which are the world's major communities, classified according to the predominant vegetation and adaptations of organisms to...
University of California
Ucmp: The Desert Biome
Learn about the four types of deserts: hot and dry, semiarid, coastal, and cold with this key facts and information. Includes links to other biomes: aquatic, forest, grasslands, and tundra.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Biomes
This interactive resource adapted from NASA describes the different temperature, precipitation, and vegetation patterns in seven biomes: coniferous forest, temperate deciduous forest, desert, grassland, rainforest, shrubland, and tundra.
The Wild Classroom
The Wild Classroom: Biomes
This excellent resource explores all of the biomes found on planet Earth! A side menu indicates the world's biomes and provides details on each. Colorful interactive maps, video clips, lesson plans, species profiles, and so much more...
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Biomes
Discover the hidden treasures in the different habitats on the earth! The earth is filled with many biomes. Examples of different biomes are listed and include hyperlinks to additional information such as the animals found there.
University of California
Ucmp: Tundra
Characteristics given about tundras. The two types of tundras, arctic and alpine, are both discussed.
Palomar Community College District
Major Biomes of North America
A good review of basic terminology followed by descriptions and pictures of the North American biomes.
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara
Kids Do Ecology: Biomes
At this site from National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis you will find the answers to many questions about biomes. You will also find a listing of biomes along with a detailed explanation of each.
PBS
Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Tundra
Can you name the two types of tundra? Find the answer to this question and many more when you explore this educational resource. The content of this site includes a look at this biome's characteristics, plant life, animal life and more....
Curated OER
Bureau of Land Management: Alaska's Cold Desert
Learn about the Arctic tundra biome of Alaska. A discussion of its characteristics, and the animals and the plants that live there.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Science for Kids: Tundra Biome
Kids learn about the tundra grasslands biome. This cold and dry ecosystem is located far to the north.
Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden: Tundra
At this site from the Missouri Botanical Garden you will find information on the tundra. What is the tundra? Where is it located? What is the climate of the tundra? What animals live in the tundra? What plants live in the tundra? Click...
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Ice Stories: Dispatches From Polar Scientists: Tundra, Permafrost
An article exploring the depths of tundra and permafrost in the Arctic region.
Staten Island Children's Museum
Staten Island Children's Museum: Great Explorations Tundra
Fun family activity relating to the tundra.
Other
Introduction to Biomes
This site provides an introduction to biomes. There are also links to each different type of biome.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Ecosystems: Biomes
A video and a short multiple-choice quiz on the topic of biomes, and the six different types that are found on Earth.
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Ecoregions: Aleutian Islands Tundra
Discusses features of the unique ecoregion, the Aleutian Islands tundra. Covers wildlife, threats to preservation, and conservation initiatives.(Updated August 26, 2012)
Songs for Teaching
Songs for Teaching: Biomes
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.
Other
World Biomes
World Biomes is a site covering five of the major world biomes: aquatic, desert, forest, grassland, and tundra. It gives information on the various sub-divisions of the biomes and provides numerous images.
Other
Introduction to the Biosphere: Characteristics of the Earth's Terrestrial Biomes
From Chapter 9 of a textbook on physical geography that covers the biosphere. Important vocabulary is highlighted and linked to a glossary. It explains the characteristics of a biome, and describes the features of the eight different...
Science Struck
Science Struck: Food Chain in the Tundra Region
Describes the characteristics of a tundra biome, how a tundra food chain compares to a tropical food chain, and what the different trophic levels look like.