This tutorial introduces students to the concept of co-adaptation and presents examples of organisms developing behaviours or physical characteristics that help them work together. Examples include the re-use of old woodpecker nests by Boreal owls, the prolific breeding behaviour of voles (providing a food source for predators without threatening their own population), and the caching of whitebark ... Full description.

This section of the Windows to the Universe website provides information and images about life including detailed information about the classification of living things, and a definition of life. Windows to the Universe is a user-friendly learning system pertaining to the Earth and Space sciences. The objective of this project is to develop an innovative and engaging website that includes a rich array ... Full description.

Life on Earth is a Windows to the Universe Exploratour and provides information and images about life, kingdoms, heterotrophs, autotrophs, animals, fungi, plantae, monera, and evolution. Windows to the Universe is a user-friendly learning system pertaining to the Earth and Space sciences. The objective of this project is to develop an innovative and engaging web site that spans the Earth and Space ... Full description.

This data tip from Bridge, the Ocean Sciences Education Teacher Resource Center archive, focuses on learning about environmental stress, which threatens coral reefs globally. The data activity provides maps and information about reefs throughout the world and presents questions about human and natural threats to reefs. Students are given access to information from a research trip to Belize in Central ... Full description.

This data tip from Bridge, the Ocean Sciences Education Teacher Resource Center archive, explores possible causes of Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus) community decline. Students use two spreadsheet databases to graph population trends based on two genetically different stocks, one of which has been listed as an endangered species. The eastern stock is located off the coasts of California to eastern ... Full description.

This data tip from Bridge, the Ocean Sciences Education Teacher Resource Center archive, focuses on the conservation of sea turtles through nest relocation. The data exercise uses figures from hatching on Watamu Marine National Park Beach in southeastern Kenya to show the effect on survival rates. Links are given to several sites for students to learn about sea turtle populations, distribution, and ... Full description.

This data tip from Bridge, the Ocean Sciences Education Teacher Resource Center archive, discusses the migration of the California gray and the Northern right whales. The data exercise asks students to plot right whale sightings off Georgia and Florida. Students can also answer questions about whale behavior. Full description.

This student guide provides an introduction to the types and value of tropical forests, deforestation, the practice of forestry, forestry research, and tropical forestry. The guide shows how modern practices can help stem the tide of forest destruction while continuing to provide valuable products for people. Examples of sustainable forestry are cited, which could be used as models for protecting ... Full description.

In this classroom activity, students consider what features an ideal creature would have to thrive in the extreme habitat of Antarctica, which has ice floes, katabatic winds, and subzero temperatures. They use recycled materials to construct a polar creature that is ideally suited to life in Antarctica. They then document their creation with a field guide entry. The printable four-page handout includes ... Full description.

This article provides an eyewitness account by a photographer who traveled with Robert Falcon Scott on his last, ill-fated Antarctic expedition. The excerpt includes biographic information about Herbert G. Ponting, a travel writer and, arguably, the finest photographer to have worked in Antarctica, his account of the sights and sounds of Antarctica's shoreline, including the icebergs and whales he ... Full description.