School Without Walls Biology

Here you will find resources for your tour-a-biome project.

Project rubric: UPDATED AS OF 2011.

Here’s a how-to on how to make a brochure in Microsoft Word.

Here's a blank world map template for you to use if you make your own map.

Information about biomes:

UC Berkeley’s Biomes Site: Click Here!

A nice map of the world’s biomes

Of course, the Wikipedia entry on biomes. Use this as a starting point!

General information on marine biomes.

More information on biomes.

Here’s an example of an online book put together by students at another school for a tour of a national park. The book goes beyond the scope of our project, but take a look at the sections on abiotic factors, biotic factors, food chains and webs, and human impact. I also have exemplars in class if you’d like to see them!

Just for fun: The Tundra Tantrum, a rap about the abiotic and biotic factors in the tundra, a terrestrial biome.