One Hen offers an online board game, online resources and a story all designed to teach kids about finance, about managing micro-loans, exploring various global markets and problem solving in a microfinance role playing game.
" A virtual tour of Charles Darwin's nearly five year journey on the Beagle. Darwin, A Naturalist's Voyage has fourteen segments chronicling Darwin's voyage from start to finish. Throughout the tour viewers will see sketches from the journey, hear readings from Darwin's journals, and learn about the journey as a whole."
Having a classroom pet opens up opportunities for creative lesson plans and enhanced curriculums. Kids love projects that incorporate their favorite new friend, and teachers have told us that their classroom pets have motivated and inspired students to improve their skills in many areas.
New calculations reveal that the number of species on Earth is likely to be in the order of several million rather than tens of millions. The findings, from a University of Melbourne-led study, are based on a new method of estimating tropical insect species -- the largest and one of the most difficult groups on the planet to study -- having significant implications for conservation efforts.
"From 1963 through 1988, Marlin Perkins and Jim Fowler hosted Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom, a 30 minute program that aired Sunday nights on NBC. An early precursor to Animal Planet and The Discovery Channel, Wild Kingdom let American audiences travel (at least virtually) to exotic destinations and observe wild animals in their natural habitats. It all happened during prime time with millions watching. And the show, otherwise credited with raising ecological and environmental awareness, won 41 major awards, including four Emmys." (Open Culture http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OpenCulture/~3/f_eC8o3dDjM/the_wild_kingdom.html)
Tusk Tusk is about black and white elephants that wage a war against one another. The peace-loving elephants disappear into the jungle and the other black and white elephants kill each other. For many years there are no elephants in the world, until the grandchildren of the peace-loving elephants emerge from the jungle.
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WildlifeDirect is a Kenya and US registered charitable organization founded and chaired by African conservationist Dr Richard Leakey, who is credited with putting an end to the elephant slaughter in Kenya in the 1980s. Its main office is located in Nairobi, Kenya.Web links to conservation and wildlife organizations"WildlifeDirect was established in 2006 to provide support to conservationists in Africa directly on the ground via the use of blogs, which enables anybody, anywhere to play a direct and interactive role in the survival of some of the world’s most precious species."
a photo blog about births in zoos around the world, with information about the animals in the wild, etc. A good resource for Primary age students investigating individual species, preservation, etc.
Towering over Europe, the Alps represent one of the continent's last wild spaces.
Swiss authorities say they are urging winter tourists to be aware of their impact on wildlife in the Alps.
With the booming popularity of winter sports such as free-ride snowboarding and snowshoe walking, Alpine wildlife — especially its deer population — is being impacted as never before, and officials are becoming concerned that human activity is threatening their survival, Swissinfo reported Sunday.
Gartenrotschwanz / rougequeue à front blanc
Video and explanation of habitat, migration
Home page of Birdlife. Site in German, French, Italian and English
link in the right side bar to a pdf list of names of birds in 5 languages
map, lists of birds breeding in Switzerland. Scroll down to the text at the bottom of the page about environmental threats to birds
Edelweiss and gentian are two of the best known Alpine flowers, but many others are also perfectly adapted to this hostile environment.
The mountains are a challenging environment, with steep cliffs and barren rocks, sparse vegetation and extremes of temperature. And yet they are home to many species of animal and bird, which are well adapted to survive there.
International School of Central Switzerland
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for our PYP Units: An inquiry into rights and responsibilities in the struggle to share finite resources with other people and with other living things; communities and the relationships within and between them; access to equal opportunities; peace and conflict resolution.
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