Title: The Rainforest Alliance
Description: The Rainforest Alliance helps people of all ages to understand the role that each one of us plays in biodiversity conservation. These pages provide kids and teachers with the information they need to understand fundamental environmental issues in order to help protect our planet. We invite you to use these education resources and join our efforts in connecting children to conservation.
Standard(s):
[S1] (0) 8: Identify features of Earth as landmasses or bodies of water.
[S1] (1) 4: Describe survival traits of living things, including color, shape, size, texture, and covering.
[S1] (1) 9: Identify ways to conserve Earth’s resources.
[S1] (2) 6: Identify characteristics of animals, including behavior, size, and body covering
[S1] (2) 7: Identify geological features as mountains, valleys, plains, deserts, lakes, rivers, and oceans.
[S1] (3) 7: Describe the life cycle of plants, including seed, seed germination, growth, and reproduction.
[S1] (3) 10: Determine habitat conditions that support plant growth and survival.
[S1] (3) 13: Describe ways to sustain natural resources, including recycling, reusing, conserving, and protecting the environment.
[S1] (4) 5: Describe the interdependence of plants and animals.
[S1] (4) 7: Describe geological features of Earth, including bodies of water, beaches, ocean ridges, continental shelves, plateaus, faults, canyons, sand dunes, and ice caps.
[S1] (5) 9: Describe the relationship of populations within a habitat to various communities and ecosystems.
[S1] (6) 7: Describe Earth’s biomes.

Title: Who Eats Who in the Antarctic?
Description: This site includes the list of animals in the Antarctic and what they eat; food chains in the Antarctic; detailed descriptions are provided along with activities.
Standard(s):
[S1] (6) 7: Describe Earth’s biomes.

Title: The Rainforest Alliance
Description: The Rainforest Alliance helps people of all ages to understand the role that each one of us plays in biodiversity conservation. These pages provide kids and teachers with the information they need to understand fundamental environmental issues in order to help protect our planet. We invite you to use these education resources and join our efforts in connecting children to conservation.
Standard(s):
[S1] (0) 8: Identify features of Earth as landmasses or bodies of water.
[S1] (1) 4: Describe survival traits of living things, including color, shape, size, texture, and covering.
[S1] (1) 9: Identify ways to conserve Earth’s resources.
[S1] (2) 6: Identify characteristics of animals, including behavior, size, and body covering
[S1] (2) 7: Identify geological features as mountains, valleys, plains, deserts, lakes, rivers, and oceans.
[S1] (3) 7: Describe the life cycle of plants, including seed, seed germination, growth, and reproduction.
[S1] (3) 10: Determine habitat conditions that support plant growth and survival.
[S1] (3) 13: Describe ways to sustain natural resources, including recycling, reusing, conserving, and protecting the environment.
[S1] (4) 5: Describe the interdependence of plants and animals.
[S1] (4) 7: Describe geological features of Earth, including bodies of water, beaches, ocean ridges, continental shelves, plateaus, faults, canyons, sand dunes, and ice caps.
[S1] (5) 9: Describe the relationship of populations within a habitat to various communities and ecosystems.
[S1] (6) 7: Describe Earth’s biomes.

Title: Water on the Move Current Events
Description: This site contains great information and experiments. Learn what makes ocean currents flow on this page from the Museum of Science's "Oceans Alive!" Read about some major ocean currents and discover the effects of wind, sun, continents, density, salinity, El Nino, and the Coriolis Effect on currents.
Standard(s):
[S1] (6) 1: Identify global patterns of atmospheric movement, including El Niño, the Gulf Stream, the jet stream, the Coriolis effect, and global winds that influence local weather.
[S1] (6) 3: Describe water and carbon biogeochemical cycles and their effects on Earth.
[S1] (6) 7: Describe Earth’s biomes.
[S1] (6) 9: Identify the moon’s phases.
[S1] (6) 10: Describe components of the universe and their relationships to each other, including stars, planets and their moons, solar systems, and galaxies.
[S1] (7) 4: Describe organisms in the six-kingdom classification system by their characteristics.
[S1] (7) 7: Describe biotic and abiotic factors in the environment.

Title: From Sea to Shining Sea: Exploring America's Ocean Realms
Description: This student reproducible, which accompanies several Xpeditions lessons, features information about 12 unique marine ecosystems. A map, glossary and more accompanies the information about the Mariana Trench, Beaufort Sea, Gulf of Mexico and other locales.
Standard(s):
[S1] (6) 1: Identify global patterns of atmospheric movement, including El Niño, the Gulf Stream, the jet stream, the Coriolis effect, and global winds that influence local weather.
[S1] (6) 2: Describe factors that cause changes to Earth’s surface over time.
[S1] (6) 5: Describe layers of the oceanic hydrosphere, including the pelagic zone, benthic zone, abyssal zone, and intertidal zone.
[S1] (6) 6: Describe regions of the oceanic lithosphere, including the continental shelf, continental slope, and abyssal plain.
[S1] (6) 7: Describe Earth’s biomes.

Title: World Biomes Map
Description: This website has an interactive colored map of biomes. Click on the biome names above the map for information and images related to the selected biome.
Standard(s):
[S1] (6) 7: Describe Earth’s biomes.
[S1] BIO (9-12) 15: Identify biomes based on environmental factors and native organisms.

Title: The World's Biomes
Description: This web page provides general knowledge and pictures of biomes.
Standard(s):
[S1] (6) 7: Describe Earth’s biomes.

Title: Missouri Botanical Garden
Description: This site provides easy-to-read and useful information about and pictures of the world's different types of biomes.
Standard(s):
[S1] (6) 7: Describe Earth’s biomes.
[S1] BIO (9-12) 15: Identify biomes based on environmental factors and native organisms.

Title: Chaparral Biome
Description: This website about the chaparral biome includes a description, global position, climate, and information on specific plants and animals of this biome.
Standard(s):
[S1] (6) 7: Describe Earth’s biomes.

Title: Biomes
Description: This is a good site for student research on biomes.
Standard(s):
[S1] (6) 7: Describe Earth’s biomes.

Title: Blue Planet Biome - Savannas
Description: Information on savanna (grassland) habitats, including plants & animals
Standard(s):
[S1] (6) 7: Describe Earth’s biomes.

Title: Habitats and Biomes
Description: Enchanted Learning is great for lower grades in many areas
Standard(s):
[S1] (6) 7: Describe Earth’s biomes.

Title: World Biomes Map
Description: This website has an interactive colored map of biomes. Click on the biome names above the map for information and images related to the selected biome.
Standard(s):
[S1] (6) 7: Describe Earth’s biomes.
[S1] BIO (9-12) 15: Identify biomes based on environmental factors and native organisms.

Title: Water on the Move Current Events
Description: This site contains great information and experiments. Learn what makes ocean currents flow on this page from the Museum of Science's "Oceans Alive!" Read about some major ocean currents and discover the effects of wind, sun, continents, density, salinity, El Nino, and the Coriolis Effect on currents.
Standard(s):
[S1] (6) 1: Identify global patterns of atmospheric movement, including El Niño, the Gulf Stream, the jet stream, the Coriolis effect, and global winds that influence local weather.
[S1] (6) 3: Describe water and carbon biogeochemical cycles and their effects on Earth.
[S1] (6) 7: Describe Earth’s biomes.
[S1] (6) 9: Identify the moon’s phases.
[S1] (6) 10: Describe components of the universe and their relationships to each other, including stars, planets and their moons, solar systems, and galaxies.
[S1] (7) 4: Describe organisms in the six-kingdom classification system by their characteristics.
[S1] (7) 7: Describe biotic and abiotic factors in the environment.

Title: The Rainforest Alliance
Description: The Rainforest Alliance helps people of all ages to understand the role that each one of us plays in biodiversity conservation. These pages provide kids and teachers with the information they need to understand fundamental environmental issues in order to help protect our planet. We invite you to use these education resources and join our efforts in connecting children to conservation.
Standard(s):
[S1] (0) 8: Identify features of Earth as landmasses or bodies of water.
[S1] (1) 4: Describe survival traits of living things, including color, shape, size, texture, and covering.
[S1] (1) 9: Identify ways to conserve Earth’s resources.
[S1] (2) 6: Identify characteristics of animals, including behavior, size, and body covering
[S1] (2) 7: Identify geological features as mountains, valleys, plains, deserts, lakes, rivers, and oceans.
[S1] (3) 7: Describe the life cycle of plants, including seed, seed germination, growth, and reproduction.
[S1] (3) 10: Determine habitat conditions that support plant growth and survival.
[S1] (3) 13: Describe ways to sustain natural resources, including recycling, reusing, conserving, and protecting the environment.
[S1] (4) 5: Describe the interdependence of plants and animals.
[S1] (4) 7: Describe geological features of Earth, including bodies of water, beaches, ocean ridges, continental shelves, plateaus, faults, canyons, sand dunes, and ice caps.
[S1] (5) 9: Describe the relationship of populations within a habitat to various communities and ecosystems.
[S1] (6) 7: Describe Earth’s biomes.