Webpages to explore
World Biomes
http://www.worldbiomes.com
This website site covers the 5 of the major world biomes.This website includes in depth pages on aquatic, desert, forest, grassland, and tundra biomes. It includes links to biome maps, recommended reading books, eco-news and an FAQ page.
Blue Planet Biomes
http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/world_biomes.htm
This website covers facts and resources on many different biomes but concentrates more on the interdependence between climate, plants, and animals. It highlights the importance of biome health depending on ecological relationships throughout the world.
Kids Do Ecology: World Biomes
http://kids.nceas.ucsb.edu/biomes/
The University of California at Santa Barbara maintains this website exploring many ecology resources for students and teachers. This site includes fact sheets on world biomes, ideas for class projects, games, and a page of teacher resources.
NASA Mission: Biomes
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Experiments/Biome/
This NASA website include in depth information about the coniferous forest, temperate deciduous forest, desert grassland, rainforest, shrubland, and tundra biomes. It also has 2 interactive games that challenge the student to match temperature and precipitation with the correct biome and another that has students deciding where to best plant trees and bushes by their climate needs.
What's it Like Where You Live?
http://www.mbgnet.net/index.html
The Missouri Botanical Garden created this site. This site has information on the different biomes of the world but focuses on the animal life in each biome and has personal accounts from scientists in those regions.
Buzzle: Biomes
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/biomes-of-the-world/
This website has fact sheets for many biomes and includes interesting facts for each. The website also has an option to have the pages read aloud to the viewer.
http://www.worldbiomes.com
This website site covers the 5 of the major world biomes.This website includes in depth pages on aquatic, desert, forest, grassland, and tundra biomes. It includes links to biome maps, recommended reading books, eco-news and an FAQ page.
Blue Planet Biomes
http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/world_biomes.htm
This website covers facts and resources on many different biomes but concentrates more on the interdependence between climate, plants, and animals. It highlights the importance of biome health depending on ecological relationships throughout the world.
Kids Do Ecology: World Biomes
http://kids.nceas.ucsb.edu/biomes/
The University of California at Santa Barbara maintains this website exploring many ecology resources for students and teachers. This site includes fact sheets on world biomes, ideas for class projects, games, and a page of teacher resources.
NASA Mission: Biomes
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Experiments/Biome/
This NASA website include in depth information about the coniferous forest, temperate deciduous forest, desert grassland, rainforest, shrubland, and tundra biomes. It also has 2 interactive games that challenge the student to match temperature and precipitation with the correct biome and another that has students deciding where to best plant trees and bushes by their climate needs.
What's it Like Where You Live?
http://www.mbgnet.net/index.html
The Missouri Botanical Garden created this site. This site has information on the different biomes of the world but focuses on the animal life in each biome and has personal accounts from scientists in those regions.
Buzzle: Biomes
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/biomes-of-the-world/
This website has fact sheets for many biomes and includes interesting facts for each. The website also has an option to have the pages read aloud to the viewer.
Interactive learning
Virginia SOL LS.9
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 distribution of plants and animals around the world is anything but random. Instead, it is a result of the interplay of individual environmental tolerances of species and the environmental conditions, especially variations in temperature and precipitation. These interactions result in biomes, the categories into which ecologists organize similar communities of plants, animals, and the environmental conditions in which they live. This interactive resource adapted from NASA features some of the physical and biological characteristics of seven of the world's biomes.
<a href="http://www.emediava.org/link/loid/1064696324">view: Biomes in eMediaVA</a>
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 distribution of plants and animals around the world is anything but random. Instead, it is a result of the interplay of individual environmental tolerances of species and the environmental conditions, especially variations in temperature and precipitation. These interactions result in biomes, the categories into which ecologists organize similar communities of plants, animals, and the environmental conditions in which they live. This interactive resource adapted from NASA features some of the physical and biological characteristics of seven of the world's biomes.
<a href="http://www.emediava.org/link/loid/1064696324">view: Biomes in eMediaVA</a>
Interactive website allows the user to scroll over the different biomes to read about them and see where they are located in the world.
http://mrnussbaum.com/biomes/habflash.swf
http://mrnussbaum.com/biomes/habflash.swf
games to play
Biomes Hoop Shot
http://sciencereviewgames.com/srg/games/hs.php?id=87
Review game on biome facts.
Build an Online Habitat
http://www.switcheroozoo.com/games/habitatgame.htm
The player must choose the correct biome characteristics for the animal shown.
Quia Geography World
http://www.switcheroozoo.com/games/habitatgame.htm
Players can choose from flash cards, matching game, concentration, or word search to review biome facts.
Biome Jeopardy
http://www.superteachertools.com/jeopardy/usergames/Mar201009/game1268001055.php
Jeopardy review game for up to 5 teams.
http://sciencereviewgames.com/srg/games/hs.php?id=87
Review game on biome facts.
Build an Online Habitat
http://www.switcheroozoo.com/games/habitatgame.htm
The player must choose the correct biome characteristics for the animal shown.
Quia Geography World
http://www.switcheroozoo.com/games/habitatgame.htm
Players can choose from flash cards, matching game, concentration, or word search to review biome facts.
Biome Jeopardy
http://www.superteachertools.com/jeopardy/usergames/Mar201009/game1268001055.php
Jeopardy review game for up to 5 teams.