I’m adding it to The Best Websites For Learning About Natural Disasters.

Thanks to REMC Ramblings for the tip.

I also have a number of links on The Best Sites To Introduce Environmental Issues Into The Classroom, and won’t be duplicating them here. So you might want to check-out that list, too. You might also be interested in The Best Online Carbon Calculators.

Here are my choices for The Best Sites To Learn About Climate Change (not in any order of preference):

Countdown To Copenhagen is a Wall Street Journal interactive timeline displaying major events related to climate change over the past forty years.

Advancing Emissions is another interactive from the Wall Street Journal charting changes in greenhouse gas emissions over the past forty years.

Breathing Earth is an intriguing visual representation of the effect each country has on climate change.  You move the cursor to a nation on a world map, and then see the number of CO2 emissions that country makes each minute.  It also shows total population, and the birth and death rate of each country. With guidance, English Language Learners could certainly use this website to make some comparisons between countries and draw conclusions from the data.

Tides Of Change is a series of closed-captioned NASA videos related to climate change. NASA also has a site entirely devoted to climate change issues, including many interactives.

A Climate Map from the British newspaper The Guardian shows the impact rising temperatures will have on the world. It’s a little “busy-looking” but would be accessible with some teacher interpretation.

Here’s an infographic showing which countries have lived up to the Kyoto agreement on the environment and which have not.

The Guardian has another interactive titled How climate change will affect food resources.

Copenhagen Challenge is an online game on climate change. It provides audio support for the text, but seemed complicated to me. However, I’m continually surprised at how well my English Language Learner students can figure out how to play and win online games.

The Planet is accessible to advanced ELL’s, and provides a good overview of different environmental challenges facing our planet, including climate change.

The New York Times has an interactive graphic called Sea Ice in Retreat. It focuses on what is going on in the Arctic.

BBC Climate Change: Bloom is an animated, and accessible feature that lets the user view and choose many different actions that can be taken individually to reduce global climate change. It won a Webby Award this year.

National Public Radio has a series of reports on the effects of global warming around the world.

The Denver Post has an exceptional series of photos called Melting Ice: Glaciers and Ice Shelves. It very vividly shows the change in size of various glaciers because of global warming.

What Is Global Warming is a simple and accessible interactive graphic explaining…global warming.

Enhanced ‘greenhouse effect’ causes global warming is an interactive from USA Today.

National Geographic has an excellent map of Global Warming Effects around the world. The map, images, and language is very simple, and accessible to Early Intermediate English Language Learners. It’s part of a larger feature called The Greenhouse Effect.

The Discovery Channel has a Global Warming Interactive.  It’s pretty “jazzy” looking, with lots of point and click features showing the effects of global warming. It’s probably accessible to high Intermediate and advanced English Language Learners.

The Global Warming Facts and Our Future from the National Academy of Sciences is a very engaging and extensive site, and includes audio support for the text. The vocabulary may be pretty challenging for Intermediate English Language Learners, but it’s worth the attempt.

What Causes Global Warming? is simple series of pictures demonstrating various activities that contribute to global warming.  When you put your cursor on each picture, a short explanation appears.

The Washington Post has a Global Emissions Interactive that shows the amount of carbon emissions from each country has changed over the years.

Feedback and suggestions are welcome.

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Here are my choices for The Best Online Resources To Learn About Charles Darwin (and are accessible to English Language Learners);

150 years since “The Origin of Species” published is the title of an interactive from Agence France Presse.

The life and times of Charles Darwin is an audio slideshow from the British newspaper The Guardian.

Darwin’s Brave New World looks like a fabulous resource from The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Darwin’s Footsteps is an online game where you follow his travels around the world.

Here’s a neat game about Darwin’s theories.

Happy 200th Darwin Day! is a slideshow from TIME Magazine.

ESL Holiday Lessons has a lesson on Darwin.

Evolution of Life is a series of videos on Darwin and evolution.

The New York Times has an audio slideshow about the Galapagos Islands.

Living Galapagos is an audio slideshow about the islands today.

I’d certainly be interested in hearing other suggestions, so please feel free to leave them in the comments section.

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A Nasa website called “Be A Martian” allows users to play games while at the same time sorting through hundreds of thousands of images of the Red Planet.

The site includes some neat-sound games that look like they might be accessible to English Language Learners.  Unfortunately, though, it looks like the site is being overwhelmed with visitors and I couldn’t get past the home page before I got a page load error.

I assume they’ll get that issue cleared up later today, and I’ll be looking forward to exploring it further.

The questions are good, though the game is a little weird. You’re given three answer choices. Each answer is color-coded, and in order to choose an answer, you have to “whack” the correctly-colored figure that keeps popping up.

I’ve placed the link on my website under Word and Video Games.

I’m tentatively adding it to The Best Sites For Learning About Planets & Space. The reason I’m only doing so “tentatively” is because even though it’s a wonderful site, the vocabulary is a bit advanced — perhaps too advanced for many English Language Learners.

Here are my choices for The Best Sites To Learn About Robots:

The Boston Globe’s Big Picture has a nice series of photos of Robots.

The Big Picture also has another series of similar images called More Robots.

The Tech Museum has a nice group of robot-related activities.

LIFE has a slideshow on Japanese Robotics.

LIFE also has a slideshow of famous robots from television and the movies.

Robots, Robots Everywhere is an online CBS News video on Japanese robots.

Here’s another CBS News video — this one on soccer games between robotic dogs.

Robots can help when disaster strikes, according to this video news report.

The Robot Hall of Fame has a slideshow.

ABC News has a slideshow on robots replacing human teachers in the classroom.

CNN has several interesting videos, including ones on:

A Home Robot

A Robotics Competition

The First Robotics Championship

Robotic Suits To Help The Disabled

The Robo-Penguin is a slideshow from TIME Magazine.

Curious Robotic Animals is a slideshow from LIFE about robots designed to look and act like animals.

I’d certainly be interested in hearing other suggestions, so please feel free to leave them in the comments section.

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It’s a good second step after ELL students have learned the “outside” body parts (hands, arms, etc.).

I’ve placed the link on my website under Body.

I’ve placed the link on my website on the Science page.

Since we’re studying Natural Disasters in our ninth-grade English classes now, I thought I’d collect a few useful resources about the quake and create a quick “The Best…” list. I’m sure I’ll be adding to it as the week goes on.

Here are my choices for The Best Resources To Learn About The Loma Prieta Earthquake:

The Sacramento Bee has an excellent slideshow of images from the event.

The San Francisco Chronicle also has a slideshow.

The San Jose Mercury News has a ton of resources on the anniversary.

CBS has another slideshow.

Here’s another television station’s special page on the quake, including several videos.

The local ABC station also has a lot of resources on the event, including videos and slideshows.

Here’s a slideshow on the impact the quake had on the small city of Santa Cruz, which was very close to its epicenter.

The Exploratorium has two good videos of the quake.

The New York Times also has a slideshow about the event.

The San Francisco Chronicle has a series of videos on the quake. Unfortunately, they’re all hosted on YouTube, and I haven’t had a chance to move them to Edublogs TV so they can be shown at school.

CBS has an interactive explaining earthquakes in general.

You might also be interested in:

The Best Websites For Learning About Natural Disasters

The Best Websites To Learn About California

The Best Sites To Learn About San Francisco

The Best Sites To Learn About The Earthquake In Italy

The Best Sites To Learn About The Tongan Volcano & Earthquake

Feedback, of course, is always welcome.

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