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Davis Family Butterfly Vivarium
Invisible Worlds: Immersive Experience
The Secret World of Elephants
Turtle Odyssey
Worlds Beyond Earth: Space Show
Included Exhibitions
Extinct and Endangered: Insects in Peril
Grounded by Our Roots
Ice Cold: An Exhibition of Hip-Hop Jewelry
Opulent Oceans
Portraits on Climate and Health: Dreams We Carry
The Changing Museum
What's in a Name?
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Margaret Mead Festival
OLogy: The Science Website for Kids
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Anthropology
Invertebrate Zoology
Paleontology
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Herpetology
Ichthyology
Mammalogy
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Richard Gilder Graduate School
Hayden Planetarium
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
Institute for Comparative Genomics
Southwestern Research Station
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Microscopy and Imaging Facility
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What Rocks on Your Block?
Giants of the Sea
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Analyze the Data
Online Field Journals
Make an Ecosystem Diorama
Nature Explorations
Data Visualization Google+ Hangouts
Greening of the Arctic: Online Seminar
Keeling's Curve: The Story of CO2 Google+ Hangout
Ozone’s Slow Recovery Online Seminar
Warm Forecast for Coral Reefs Online Seminar
SunScapes: Our Magnetic Star
Putting COVID-19 Vaccines to the Test
Video and Text Passages
Analyze the Data
Central Park Geology Field Guide
Earth Inside and Out
A Conversation with Jacques Malavieille
Forecasting Earthquakes Using Paleoseismology
Looking For Life In Antarctica... and on Mars
Mapping Hot Springs on the Deep Ocean Floor
Mapping Mt. Rainier
Retrieving a Stromatolite from the Sahara Desert
Studying Tree Rings to Learn About Global Climate
Ultra-High-Pressure Experimentalist Who Studies the Deep Earth
Zircon Chronology: Dating the Oldest Material on Earth
Earth: Inside and Out Glossary
Harry Hess: One of the Discoverers of Seafloor Spreading
Arthur Holmes: Harnessing the Mechanics of Mantle Convection to the Theory of Continental Drift
James Hutton: The Founder of Modern Geology
Inge Lehmann: Discoverer of the Earth's Inner Core
Milutin Milankovitch: Seeking the Cause of the Ice Ages
Cosmic Horizons
Case Study: Friedrich Bessel and the Companion of Sirius
Case Study: Gerard Kuiper and the Trans-Neptunian Comet Belt
Case Study: John Michell and Black Holes
Case Study: Fossil Microbes on Mars?
Case Study: Neutrino Observatories
Case Study: The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
Profile: Ernst Chladni and Rocks from the Sky
Profile: Georges Lemaître, Father of the Big Bang
Profile: Cecilia Payne and the Composition of the Stars
Profile: Ole Roemer and the Speed of Light
Profile: Vera Rubin and Dark Matter
Profile: Carl Sagan and the Quest for Life in the Universe
Profile: Lyman Spitzer and the Space Telescope
Profile: Fritz Zwicky's Extraordinary Vision
Profile: Harold C. Urey
Biodiversity Crisis
PROFILE: Penelope Bodry-Sanders
Case Study: The Belize Ethnobotany Reserve Project
The Biodiversity Crisis: Losing What Counts
PROFILE: Amy Vedder
PROFILE: Dolores R. Santoliquido
PROFILE: Jaime A. Pinkham
PROFILE: Jane Goodall
PROFILE: Abebe Getahun
PROFILE: Clare Flemming
PROFILE: Kevin Browngoehl
The Biodiversity Crisis: Brown-Eyed, Milk-Giving… and Extinct: Losing Mammals Since A.D. 1500*
Profile: Michael Balick
The Biodiversity Crisis: Lake Victoria
Restoration of the Elwha River by Dam Removal, Washington
The Biodiversity Crisis: St. Lucia Parrot Recovery
Wilderness Preservation Act, U.S.A.
The Green Guerillas, New York City
The Biodiversity Crisis: Jaguars
The Biodiversity Crisis: Reefs in Crisis
Antarctica: The Farthest Place Close to Home
The Coldest, Driest, Windiest, Highest Continent
Sea Ice in Antarctica
Let's Talk with Stephanie Shipp about Glaciers, Sea Ice, and Life on Antarctica
Some Background on Antarctica
Letter from Stephanie: Keeping a Journal
Day and Night Cycles
Living at the Pole by Paul Siple
Safety and Wintering Over in Antarctica
Letter from Stephanie: Day & Night Cycles
Seeing the Light
Seasonal Cycle
Why is it Always Cold in Antarctica?
Excerpt: The Last March by Robert Falcon Scott
Meteorology in the Poles
Sea Ice and Climate in Antarctica
Temperature & Albedo
Amazing Albedo
What's the Angle?
Extreme Winds
Studying Snow and Wind in Antarctica
Studying Polar Climate
Katabatic Winds
Antarctic Weather Stations
Crazy Cold Air
Types of Maps
Using GPS in Antarctica
Studying Ice Flows for Clues to Climate Change
Maps
Which Map's the Best Map?
Making Map Projections
Exploration
At the Pole by Roald Amundsen
Excerpt: The Voyage of the James Caird by Ernest Shackleton
Antarctica's Early Explorers
Antarctic Exploration
Understanding Exploration
Navigation & GPS
The Movement of Ice Sheets
Using GPS to Study ice and Geology in Antarctica
Letter from Stephanie: Global Positioning System
Locating a Point
Organisms
The Worst Journey in the World
Great White South by Herbert G. Ponting
Photographing Weddell Seals from Below the Ice
Microorganisms in Antarctic Seas
Antarctic Adaptations
Create a Polar Creature
Studying Antarctica's Marine Organisms
Hazards to Humans
Crevasses by Edmund Hillary
Living and Working in Antarctica Safely
Living & Working in Antarctica
Antarctic Hazards
Safety and Wintering Over in Antarctica
Fabric Test
Antarctic Extreme Jeopardy
Bacteria Evolving: Tracing the Origins of a MRSA Epidemic
Biodiversity Counts
What is Biodiversity?
Drawing as a Way of Looking at the Natural World
Keeping a Field Journal 1: Eleanor Sterling
Keeping a Field Journal 2: Brian Boom
Selecting a Site for Field Study
List of Recommended Field Guides
How to Select a Site to Study
Plant Identification
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How to Identify Plants in the Field
Who Are the Plants?
Responsible Collecting
Collecting Plants
How to Press and Preserve Plants
How To Mount Dried Plants
Plant Inventory
Plant Morphology
Parts of a Flower
The Parts of a Soybean Seedling (Glycine max, Dicotyledon)
The Parts of a Corn Seedling (Zea mays, Monocotyledon)
Leaf Arrangement
Leaf Type
Types of Compound Leaves
Leaf Shape
Leaf Margins
Tips to Identify Poison Ivy
Plant Ecology
How to Identify Plants in the Field
How to Calculate a Biodiversity Index
Arthropod Identification
Responsible Collecting
Describing and Understanding Organisms
Collecting Arthropod Specimens
Sorting Arthropods for Identification
Maintaining an Arthropod Collection
How to Set up Guest Quarters for Visiting Arthropods
Arthropod Morphology
Types of Antennae
Front View of an Insect (Grasshopper) Head
Parts of an Insect (Grasshopper)
Parts of a Spider: Dorsal View of a Male Spider
Parts of a Spider: Ventral View of Female Spider
Metamorphosis in Arthropods
What are the Connections?
Investigating Plant-Arthropod Interactions
Plant/Arthropod Interactions
Saving El Imposible: A Biodiversity Puzzle
Deep Sea Vents
Global Ocean Circulation and Deep Sea Temperatures
Find a Vent
Underwater Plume
It's Aliiive--Or Is It?
Simple Submarine
Sinking Water
Under Pressure
Dispatch from the Deep: Shaping the Ocean Floor at the Mid-Ocean Ridges
The Chemistry of Deep Sea Vents
Dispatches from the Deep: Light and Dark in the Sea
Weather Conditions Over the Deep Seas
First Day at Sea and Exploration Vessels
Veronique Robigou
Pressure in the Deep Seas
Cindy Lee Van Dover
Going Deep Under the Sea
One REVEL Teacher, Many Monkeys Fists
Dispatch from the Deep: Home Again
Hydrothermal Vent Formation
Deep Sea Vents Web List
Dinosaurs: Activities and Lesson Plans
Be a Sleuth: How Dinosaurs Behaved
Classifying Dinosaurs Based on Fossils
Observe a Dinosaur
Meet the Paleontologists: Jin Meng
Dinosaur Names
Grouping Dinosaurs
How Big Were Dinosaurs?
What is a Fossil?
Bigger Than You Think
Be a Trackway Detective
Dinosaur Timeline
Dinosaur Teeth
Dinosaur Name Game for Students
Create a Timeline of Earth
Explore the Family Tree of Birds
Plate Tectonics Puzzle
Relative Speed of Dinosaurs
Smaller Than You Think
Functions of Feathers
Flesh Out a Fossil
Sedimentary Layers Puzzle
Dinosaur Illustrations
Understanding Geologic Time
Understanding Cladistics
Make Your Own Liaoning Diorama
What Makes a Dinosaur a Dinosaur?
What is a Dinosaur
What Teeth Tell Us
Discovering the Universe
Pixel This!
Calculate Planetary Distances
Astronomy Books for Adults
Space Shuttle Orbiter
Space Games
Gravity: It's Universal
Parallax
3-D Model of the Big Dipper
The 3-D Universe
Filtering Light
Light: Its Secrets Revealed
Digital Images: The Universe Exposed
Focal Point
Building a Simple Refracting Telescope
Gathering Light
Telescopes: Super Views from Space
Building a Spectroscope
White Light and Colored Light
Detecting UV Light
Earthquake Risk in Bangladesh
Ecology Disrupted
Highways Block Bighorn Sheep
Highways Block Bighorn Sheep: Online Media
Winter Roads Make Salty Streams
Learning Goals and Standards
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Salting Winter Roads
Accessing Prior Knowledge About Snow and Salt
Science Bulletin: Winter Roads Make Salty Streams
Baltimore Winters, Snow and Salt
Scientist Profile: Dr. Sujay Kaushal
How Can We Test Whether Road Salt is Entering the Water Supply?
Salt And Living Things
The Effect of Salt on Tomato Plants
The Effect of Salt on Plant Cells
Salt and Ecosystems Case Studies
Salt Level Demonstration
Dose Makes the Difference
Water in Our Daily Lives: Coming And Going
Where Water Comes From
How Water Moves: New York City Water Story
Water Tale of Two Cities
Investigating and Graphing Salinity Data
Land Affects Water
Where to Collect Data
How to Represent Data
Setting Up Graphs
Representing and Making Meaning from Salinity Data: Graphing and Drawing Conclusions
Setting Up Graphs
Contextualizing Data
Comparing Graphs, Making Conclusions
Generalizing Conclusions to Your Water Supply
Ecology Disrupted: Unexpected Consequences Of Human Daily Life On Abiotic and Biotic Ecosystem Components
Biotic and Abiotic Factors
Winter Roads Make Salty Streams Graphic Organizer
Light Pollution: Beyond the Glare
Urban Heat Island Effect
Climate Change Affects Ecosystems
Bronx River Restoration
Bringing the Stories Together
Assessments
References
Index to Winter Roads
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Chesapeake Bay
Learning Goals and Standards
Lesson Plans
Introduction: Dead Zones in the Chesapeake Bay
Chesapeake Bay Food Web Before Large Scale Harvesting and European Settlers
The Chesapeake Bay Today With Large-scale Fishing
Graphing Analysis of Algae and Oysters: Comparing Historic to Modern Day Levels
Summary of Activity Worksheet
Videos and Seafood Consumption Choices
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Exploring Bolivia's Biodiversity
Field Trip to the Moon
Field Trip to the Moon Companion Guide (for classroom and general use)
Field Trip to the Moon Companion Guide (for visitors to the American Museum of Natural History)
Field Trip to the Moon Live Presenter Script
Field Trip to the Moon Educator's Guide
Field Trip to the Moon Informal Educator's Guide
Field Trip to the Moon Student Worksheet (for visitors to the American Museum of Natural History)
Five Tools and Processes for Translating the NGSS Into Instruction and Classroom Assessment
Introduction to the Five Tools and Processes
Tool 1: Using the NGSS to plan a unit of instruction
NGSS Card Decks by TOPIC
NGSS Card Decks by DCI
Tool 2: Using Performance Expectations to plan classroom assessments
Tool 3: Using the 5E Instructional Model to develop a conceptual flow
Tool 4: Using the 5E instructional model to develop learning sequences
Tool 5: Using Evidence of Learning Specifications to develop performance tasks
Five Tools Implementation Models
Model A: Three Dimensional, Phenomena Driven Instruction
Model B: Planning for Instruction
Model C: Planning for Classroom Assessment
GRACE
GRACE Teaching Case
Integrating Literacy Strategies into Science Instruction
Paraphrasing
Summarizing in Science
Interactive Read-Alouds
Interactive Reading Guides
Strategies for Vocabulary Instruction
Writing a Scientific Explanation Using the Explanation Tool
NCEP Educator Resources
Patterns: Investigating Weather and Climate
Polar Climate Change Lesson Plans
Teleconnections
Why are the Glaciers Melting?
Climate, the Cryosphere, and the Carbon Cycle
As the Arctic Goes, So Does the Rest of the Planet
Is it Getting Greener?
Climate Change and Ecosystems
How do Humans Impact Climate Change?
Dissolved CO2, Acidification, and the Effects on Marine Biomes
Impact of Increasing CO2 on the Food Web in the Arctic Ocean?
Earth's Climate System
The Carbon Cycle and its Effects on the Polar Regions
Structures & Culture
Becoming a Cultural Researcher
Analyzing Images of Culture
Multiple Cultures, Multiple Identities
When Cultures Travel
Studying the Material Culture of Three Nomadic Cultures
Looking at Our Own Cultural Artifacts
Culture as Self-Expression
Young Naturalist Awards
The Effect of Water Temperature, Water Acidity, and Animal Age and Body Size on the Opercular Respiratory Rate of Brown Bullhead Catfish
The Effectiveness of Botanical Extracts as Repellents Against Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes
Facial Expression and its Relationship to Gesture in Western Lowland Gorillas
My Fish-Shaped Home: A History of Changes
The Secret of the Fibonacci Sequence in Trees
Saguaro Cactus: From Life to Death
An Analysis of Mockingbird Nesting Behavior in Residential Areas
Butterfly Buffet: The Feeding Preferences of Painted Ladies
Investigating the Effects of Water Pollution on Daphnia magna
Are Dogs' Tongues Really Cleaner Than Humans'?
Bacterial Activity in Different Water Sources: A Sequel Comparative Study
Mango Skins: An Effective Organic Pest Deterrent
Afpectus Lunae: Does the Moon Rotate on Its Axis?
Plant Extracts as Natural Insecticides
Goldfish as a Model for Understanding Learning and Memory: More Complex Than You Think
The History and Geology of Rocks and Fossils in Helena, Montana
Using Plant-Based Biofilters to Purify Household Wastewater
Explaining the Divergence of the Marine Iguana Subspecies on Espanola
Shaped by Nature and Man: The Geological History of the Palisades
From Uplift to Glaciation: The Geological History of the Pikes Peak Region
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