Virtual Tide Pool
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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Vermont Foliage
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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Venture into Hawai’i’s Coral Reefs
Reviewed April 10, 2000by Ruth Yong,a teacher fromHawaiiwho is not affiliated with the site.This is an excellent site for children and also adults. It is filled with fabulous pictures and videos. It tells all about Hawai’i’s coral reefs and the organisms and creatures that live there. It stresses that coral reefs must be protected. Its information is accurate as far as I can tell.It also has a few interactive games, a story that can be added to, and a discussion board.
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USGS Water Cycle: Follow a Drip
"The U.S.Geological Survey follows a water drip from ocean to cloud and back down again in this site for middle and high-school students. Their beautiful hydrologic (water) cycle diagram is available in English, Spanish, and a bigger version just for printing. Additional water science topics can be found under the rainbow; just click on a cloud! The glossary of water science terms, however, isn’t on the rainbow menu. You’ll find its link in the lower right-hand corner of each page."
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USA TODAY: What is El Niño?
"Known for their excellent national weather coverage, this El Niño report from USA TODAY does not disappoint. Illustrated with animated graphics, you’ll find all the basics here from how El Niño began and how it works, to El Niño’s history and some weather predictions. "
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Under the Sea - a unit on Marine Biology
Reviewed May 8, 2000by Susan Seagraves,a teacher fromMontgomery, Alabamawho is affiliated with the site.This site contains everything you need to teach a unit on marine biology. There is a teacher’s guide, online games and quizzes, literature links, and links to other sites for more information about marine biology. Kids will especially enjoy the slider and jigsaw puzzles, quizzes and word searches.
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Treetures
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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The Wilderness Society
"What can you do this Earth Day? Learn about the Arctic Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. It’s a wild and wonderful place at risk from oil development. Join photojournalist John Dunne on a three-month trek (read his journal and enjoy his photographs) or take a bird’s eye view of the refuge in Max’s Grand Adventure. Who is Max? ""Max is an American Golden-Plover. Full grown, he’s smaller than a football, but logs more miles in the sky than many frequent fliers. His birthplace is the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. But he’ll be a world-class traveler before he’s five months old!"""
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The Tide Pools
"Elementary school teacher Norma Goddard combines her love of teaching, computers and the ocean into this online lesson. Click on the small photos at the bottom of each page to navigate around the site. You’ll learn about starfish, anemones, crabs, sea urchins, limpets, and algae. From the algae page, you can begin the eight question multiple-choice quiz. "Who has 44 arms?""
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The Rotten Truth
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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