STANDARD 3600-01

• Students will investigate biological systems and summarize relationships between systems.

OBJECTIVES

• 3600-0101 Analyze the functioning of a biological system.
  
  Tree of Life
  This site provide a map to biological information that can be used by researchers, teachers, and students, and that, as it grows, it will provide a forum for those who wish to share knowledge about the diversity of earth's organisms.
  
• 3600-0102 Determine how systems relate within the biosphere.
   
  • Biodiversity Servers
    This server links to biodiversity-related sites throughout the world.
    
  • The Raptor Center
    An international medical facility for birds of prey. Their mission is to preserve biological diversity among raptors and other avian species through medical treatment, scientific investigation, education, and management of wild populations.
    
  • What is Gaia?
    James Lovelock explains the Gaia hypothesis.
    
  • The Tiger Information Center
    This site dedicated to providing information to help preserve the remaining five subspecies of tigers.
    
• 3600-0103 Analyze the carbon cycle.
  
  • Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center The Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center includes the World Data Center-A for Atmospheric Trace Gases, and is the primary global-change data and information analysis center of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
    
  • The Ocean Carbon Cycle
    This page explains the role of the ocean in the carbon cycle.
    
• 3600-0104 Evaluate the influence of people on the biosphere.
  
  • Man and Biosphere
    This site lists Biosphere reserves by country as well as species in the reserves. (This is the best rated site in this area, but there is not a lot to choose from).
    
  • Satellite Tracking of Endangered Species
    The Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, and the Direct Readout group of the Applied Information Sciences Branch (Code 935) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center work together on a project to monitor the migration routes of several endangered species using satellite tracking.
    
  • Environmental Journalism Homepage
    Provides links to many environmental topics including; biodiversity, energy, forests, global warming, oceans, ozone depletion, pollution, etc.
     
  • Factsheets and News Releases on Threatened and Endangered Species
    This site offers recent lists of endangered and threatened species throughout the world.
    
  • The National Wildlife Federation® This site focuses on endangered habitats, land stewardship, sustainable communities, water quality and wet lands.