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1. **Pond Study** - collect specimens, analyze data, fact sheet 2. **Glogster- Biomes** - Website to create virtual posters (use the edu option) - most students took off with these projects with little instruction - some students embedded their YouTube videos into their projects - Start:explain Biomes, blueplanet.org, data sets, use Excel - Next: Food Web - Next: (other ideas: create laws that will protect different aspects of your biome) 3. **Invasive Species Most Wanted Poster / Webquest** 4. **howstuffworks.com** (experiments, explains how stuff works...) 5. **Nova programs on PBS** - helpful videos - has a teacher page with each video with problem solving ideas and activities (higher level thinking) 6. **Project Learning Tree** - PDE website, Ecology - lesson plan ideas (modules) [|www.plt.org] 7. **Watch The Lorax -** students create an ending to the story - "Truax" (logging industry's answer to The Lorax), debate both sides - if you ask the company they will send you copies of the story (search: Truax) - website **Joust** has the video 8. **Bringing Nature Home** - book about native species and invasive species - very interesting read