Contact Information

Dr. Alec Bodzin
Professor
College of Education
Lehigh University
113 Iacocca Hall
111 Research Drive
Bethlehem, PA 18015
(610) 758-5095
bodzin@lehigh.edu

Environmental Science Links

Ecology WWW Page
http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/Ecology/Ecology-WWW.html


The Ecology WWW Place is an extensive database of ecology sites on the Internet. An excellent resource for teachers, students, and researchers.

Envirolink Library
http://www.envirolink.org/library/index.html

The EnviroLink Library is a very comprehensive resource for environmental information on the Internet. This Web site is well organized, with information listed by subject and broad categories.

Illinois Natural History Survey
http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/


The highlights of this site include centers for biodiversity, wildlife ecology, aquatic ecology, and economic entomology. This site contains good K-12 education resources for educators and their students.

Journey North
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/


Journey North is an interactive ecology web site that tracks the migrations of the following animals: Bald Eagle, Lesser Long-Nosed Bat, Caribou, Loggerhead Sea Turtle, Common Loon, Monarch Butterfly, Northern Oriole, Peregrine Falcon, American Robin, Humpback Whale, and Northern Right Whale.

Texas Environmental Center
http://www.tec.org/


This site contains Texas environmental information including pollution, water quality resources, documentaries, and more! The highlight of this web site is an Internet magazine featuring profiles and perspectives on student environmental endeavors. Teacher lesson plans on ecology topics are also found at this site.

The Butterfly Website
http://mgfx.com/butterfly/


Just about everything that you ever wanted to know about butterflies can be found here. Great graphics of butterflies. This is a good site to learn about the ecology of butterflies.

The GLOBE Program -
Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment

http://www.globe.gov/


Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) is a worldwide network of students, teachers, and scientists working together to study and understand the global environment. Students conduct an array of measurements and observations at their schools and share their data via the Internet with other students and scientists around the world to detail an environmental picture of the globe. An excellent way for your students to contribute data to a unique ecology project on the Internet.

US Environmental Protection Agency
http://www.epa.gov/


This is the homepage for the US Environmental Protection Agency. An excellent ecology resource to learn about environmental policies and management.

WhaleNet
http://whale.wheelock.edu/


The WhaleNet website is dedicated to education while focusing on whales and marine research. "WhaleNet is a unique interdisciplinary, hands-on, collaborative telecomputing project to foster excitement and learning about the natural world in schools across the nation and around the globe." An excellent ecology resource for K-12 science classes. Check out "Saving Whales with DNA" and the dataset in S.T.O.P. - "Satellite Tagging Observation Program." Good classroom lesson plans and curricular materials using datasets.

Amazing Environmental Organization Web Directory
http://www.webdirectory.com/


This site advertises itself as the "Earth's Biggest Environmental Search Engine." It gives you a choice of typing in your own search topic or choosing from the broad topic folders already listed. Example: Opening the animals folder gives you more folders to choose from eventually giving you information or contacts. Also included is a folder on education which contains many resources, including a listing of environmental education products, some of which are free. If you can think of a topic, you will probably find the information at this web site. The site is easy to navigate and could be used by both students and teachers.

Water on the Web (WOW)
http://www.waterontheweb.org/


WOW provides high school and undergraduate students with an opportunity to learn science, mathematics, and technology while using near real-time and archived water quality data to monitor Minnesota lakes over the Internet.

Monarch Watch
http://MonarchWatch.org/

Monarch Watch is an educational outreach program giving students, teachers, volunteers, and researchers the chance to get involved with several ongoing research projects all dedicated to the study of the Monarch butterfly. Classrooms can choose to tag Monarchs, monitor larva, study Monarch size and mass, study Monarch flight patterns, or track Monarch migration. This site also provides students and educators with a multimedia gallery, reading gallery, and tips on how to start your own butterfly garden.

Sea Turtle Survival League
http://www.cccturtle.org/

Track the migration path of different Sea Turtles using animated, interactive maps, adopt a turtle, download classroom activities, or contribute to discussion boards. The opportunities for both students and educators to get involved in real-time research projects centered around Sea Turtles is endless.

EPA's Explorer's Club
http://www.epa.gov/students/index.html

Learn more about different aspects of the environment by engaging in activities about air, water, waste & recycling, ecosystems, health & safety, and environmental issues affecting your neighborhood. In addition to the abundance of interactive resources, this EPA site offers elementary, middle, and high school students many opportunities to take action and become involved in different service learning projects.

Office of Environmental Education - North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
http://www.ee.enr.state.nc.us/

This Web site offers educators a variety of resources including information regarding environmental education field sites, support materials to facilitate hands-on learning in the classroom, information concerning professional development, elementary school resources, and middle school resources. The site also provides links to environmental education activities covering topics such as river basins and wetlands, topography, wetlands, biodiversity, ecology, groundwater, climate, soil, recycling, conservation, wildlife, water pollution, nature cycles, and airsheds. This site also contains a Web page devoted to links which help educators access environmental data in order to enrich student instruction. Examples include access links to Interactive Map Servers, NC Geographic Information Systems, and other inquiry-based learning activities that use environmental data.

Population Connection
http://www.populationconnection.org/

This site provides educators with resources to teach students (grades K-12) about the growing threat of overpopulation. This site also offers the chance to learn how to take action and stabilize the world population at a level that can be sustained by Earth's resources. A great resource for real-time facts and data concerning population number on a national and worldwide scale.

Garbage
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/garbage/intro.html

How do we handle the disposal of solid waste, hazardous waste, or sewage? This Web site provides information on how the United States currently disposes of these types of waste and provides students with sustainable waste management options including ideas on waste reduction and recycling.

The Scorecard
http://www.scorecard.org/

This site allows students to generate a pollution report for their community based on Toxic Chemical Releases, Air Quality, Water Quality, Agriculture, and Environmental Justice. Using an interactive map, students just enter their zip code and receive a full scorecard indicating the environmental quality of their area.

Environmental News Network
http://www.enn.com/

What's making environmental news? To answer this question use this Web site to read the latest environmental headlines, test your environmental knowledge by taking interactive quizzes and polls, interact with others by searching for environmental legislation, write to the media or elected officials, or participate in an online forum.

Especially for Kids
http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/kids/kids.html

This site gives students (grades K-12) the opportunity to learn more about oil spills and hazardous chemical accidents. There are several links for project ideas, experiments, and demonstrations. In addition, links are provided to help students write reports and search other outside resources.

Students as Scientists - Pollution Prevention Through Education
http://www.uncw.edu/student_scientists/

Students as Scientists focuses on water quality issues related to North Carolina rivers. The site offers classroom students the opportunity to particpate in water quality monitoring. Students can compare their results to those of environmental scientists and to the results of other students in the state. This site also includes a map of the major NC river basins.

Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change
http://www.co2science.org/

This site provides a wealth of factual reports, data and commentary on the scientific quest to determine the climatic and biological consequences of rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. The site publishes journal articles and editorials in addition to disseminating information concerning world temperatures, U.S. climate data, plant growth data, and carbon sequestration. In addition, this site provides online instructions for educators on how to conduct CO2 enrichment and depletion experiments at home or in the classroom.