http://www.nyu.edu/projects/julian/index.html

Hosted by New York University, this innovative website entitled A World Community of Old Trees was created by art educator and exhibiting visual artist, Dr. June Julian. This collaborative art project provides opportunities for students in grades K-12 to research a tree in their community, create art work about that tree, and submit the information and artwork for inclusion in the Tree Gallery section of the website. The Tree Gallery section also includes background for the project, examples of Dr. Julian's art, and other artists' representations of trees (including work from K-12 students from around the country and Ohio University students). The site links to Project Instructions for Students in Grades K-12 and printable Permission Forms. The site also links to the Tree Museum containing art history for tree images, and Tree Talk which provides a forum for sharing ecological information about ancient trees. [NL]

http://www.scsc.k12.ar.us/99digitalcamera/

A good example of grass-roots internet-based educational resources, this website showcases multiple lesson plans created by participants in a Technology Literacy course project formed through a "joint partnership between South Central Service Cooperative, Southern Arkansas University, and twenty school districts in south Arkansas." Although a majority of the lesson plans are based on flora and fauna of Arkansas, many have applications for other regions as well. The lesson plans feature Bats, Black Bears, Butterflies, Mayapples, Mosses, and many more. All course participant websites include lesson plans and photographs, and some sites also include Bibliographies, Glossaries, Arkansas Curriculum Frameworks, Teacher Information sections, and other Resources. [NL]

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/news/items/missionexplore.htm

This website features Mission: Explore, a fun and interactive educational game, created by The Natural History Museum in London to introduce students to natural history specimen collecting. In the game, students "become a natural history collector for the Museum and journey to the distant island of Regaloam, where...[they] learn the skills to collect and identify a diverse range of natural history specimens from fabulous fossils and intriguing insects." After applying for a collecting permit from the Government of the Island of Regaloam, students travel to the island and choose what items they wish to search for including minerals, insects, fossils, and more. The site effectively utilizes photos, maps, and graphs to enrich the exploratory theme. Each stage of the collecting journey-from finding the specimen, to identifying it, to choosing a way to preserve it, incorporates great problem-solving formats with feedback. [NL]

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Biology/7-03GeneticsFall2001/CourseHome/index.htm

This website, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), features a Genetics course designed for undergraduates. This is one of many free on-line publications of course materials provided by MIT as part of the OpenCourseWare project (first reported on in the NSDL Scout Report for the Life Sciences January, 24, 2003). This course was created by MIT Professors Chris Kaiser and David Page to introduce students to the "principle of genetics with application to the study of biological function at the level of molecules, cells, and multicellular organisms, including humans." The website includes separate PDF files for all course lectures, exam study guides, as well as problem sets and solutions. The site also links to a calendar of topics covered for each lecture, and past problem sets and Exams dating from 1993-2000. [NL]

http://www.kidsgardening.com/

Hosted by National Gardening, kidsgardening.com is a great resource for educators interested in incorporating gardens into their classroom curriculum, and for parents looking for ways to supplement home gardening activities with their kids. The site offers sections on Classroom Stories, a plethora of hands-on activities, articles, an online guide to school greenhouses, and more. This website also includes links to a Q & A Library, a Resource Directory, and to information on Grants and Fundraising. Additionally, this site features an online Parents' Primer book with chapters on Garden Structures, Plants, Maintenance, and Ages & Stages too name a few. [NL]

http://biop.ox.ac.uk/www/mol_of_life/Molecules_of_Life.html

This Molecules of Life website was created by Craig D. Livingston and Dr. Martin E. Noble, of the University of Oxford as "an interactive introduction to the techniques used in the Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics to gain understanding of the structure of protein molecules." To increase accessibility to this subject matter, this website was designed for "a wide, non-specialist audience including young people of school age." The website links to educational sections on Proteins, X-Ray Crystallography, DNA, and more. Included in various sections are historical segments, photos, diagrams, and movies. [NL]

http://library.thinkquest.org/3715/?tqskip1=1

Hosted by ThinkQuest and created by a fourth grade class at Hinkle Creek Elementary School (located in Noblesville, Indiana) this great website was designed to educate people about Plants and Our Environment. Featuring kid-friendly information and quality home-made graphics designed with KidPix, the website covers many aspects of the plant world such as Photosynthesis, Pollination, Monocots & Dicots, and more. Further, the plants-environment theme adds an important ecological dimension to the website. The site offers interactive Plant and Our Environment Activities such as Plant Math and a matching plant to country location game. Links are provided to a Glossary and Guestbook as well. [NL]