| |
Cyberscience
Experiments, puzzles, magazines, multimedia for science
education. Subject include the environment, insects and
UFOs provided by CSIRO Australia.
Fish-FAQ
A list of answers to common questions posed to the US National
Marine Fisheries Service. Covers fish species, classification,
survival, dangerous sea creatures and a range of other marine
animals such as lobsters, crabs, clams, sea turtles and
whales. Many educational pages and also provides links to
sets of marine life and oceanographic facts.
Life
of Birds
Resource examining the intelligence, skill, evolution, parental
qualities and song of various bird species. Includes details
of how birds obtain food, make tools, learn, remember, communicate
and play. Also features information about the author, Sir
David Attenborough and classroom resources.
Major Biomes of the World
This educational module from Radford University presents
basic content on the distribution and nature of the world's
major biomes. It considers the structure, characteristic
growth-forms and taxonomic affiliations of the vegetation;
major soil order(s); and common adaptive characteristics
of the fauna of the tundra, boreal forest, temperate broadleaf
deciduous forest, tropical broadleaf evergreen forest, tropical
savanna, temperate grasslands, desert scrub, and Mediterranean
shrub biomes. Study hints and critical thinking questions
follow the content units.
Organisation
for Tropical Studies
Based in Costa Rica, OTS is a non-profit consortium of universities
and research institutions from the United States and Latin
America dedicated to providing leadership in education,
research and the wise use of natural resources in the tropics.
OTS provides graduate education as well as professional
training.
Tree
of Life
A distributed Internet project containing information about
phylogeny and biodiversity. The project is designed to contain
information about the phylogenetic relationships and characteristics
of organisms, to illustrate the diversity and unity of living
organisms, and to link biological information available
on the Internet in the form of a phylogenetic navigator.
The project aims to provide a map to biological information
to be used by researchers, teachers and students.
Yeast
(Budding, Fission & Candida)
This practical site from the WWW Virtual Library contains
information for the non-specialist, as well as detailed
information regarding S.
cerevisiae, S. pombe and C. albicans, including gene and
protein sequence information. Particularly useful are links
and information for educators that are also included. |
