EARTH & ENVIRONMENT
@"WEB GEMS"

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Our intent here is to provide interesting and motivational content to encourage our students to visit the Silver Bay site on a regular basis.  These fun places are generally intended for children and are previewed.  They may however contain advertisements.  It always recommended that adult supervision be a part of Internet browsing.

The Toms River School District is not responsible for contents on external sites or servers

BIOMES
Enchanted Learning (Biomes)
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/biomes/

World Climates / Biomes
http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/climate.htm

Biomes of the World
http://www.snowcrest.net/freemanl/world/biomes/

Biomes of North America
http://botany1.bio.utk.edu/botany120lect/Biomes/biomemap.htm

Biomes Teaching Unit
http://www.fairfield.k12.ct.us/tomlinson/ctomlinson02/biomes.htm

EARTH DAY (April 22)
NEW...Earth Day For Kids (list of sites)
http://www.earthday.gov/kids.htm

EARTH & ENVIRONMENT
NEW...U.S.  Geological Survey (Educational Page)
http://www.usgs.gov/education/

Miss Maggie's Earth Adventures (environment)
http://www.missmaggie.org

Global Educational Challenge
(Ride along as Graham Dalton circumnavigates the globe)
https://www.education.hsbc.com/education/

Visible Earth (NASA)
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/

NEW...What's in the Fantastic Forest?
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/forest/html/forest.html

GAMES
Geo Game
http://school.discovery.com/schooladventures/geogame/index.html

Geo Bee Challenge
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/geobee/

NEW...Kid's place Geo Net Game
http://www.eduplace.com/geonet/

World Wildlife Fund (environmental games)
http://www.worldwildlife.org/fun/games.cfm
 

SIMS
Run recycling at Dumptown
http://www.epa.gov/recyclecity/dumptown.htm 

NEW...Welcome to Tox town
http://www.toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/index_content.html
 

VOLCANOES
How Volcanoes Work
http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/ 

Volcano World
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/ 

NATURE VIDEOS
American Field Guide (good videos from PBS)
(requires a fast Internet connections)
http://pbs.org/americanfieldguide

NEW...The American Museum of Natural History presents...."Ology"
http://www.ology.amnh.org/
 

OTHER
National Geographic for Kids
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngexplorer/ http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngkids/

Want to fly over your neighborhood from space?
(satellite views of America)
http://www.terrafly.com