The Wild Classroom
The Wild Classroom: Biomes of the World: Temperate Grasslands Biome
Learn all about the Temperate Grasslands biome. Find out about plants, animals, adaptations, and conservation efforts.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Temperate Grasslands
Listen to this short podcast explaining the characteristics of the temperate grassland ecosystem. [0:45]
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara
Kids Do Ecology: Temperate Grasslands
At the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, you can learn where temperate grasslands are located! Other information includes grassland weather, plants, animals, people, and more.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Temperate Grasslands: Lesson 1
This lesson will provide an understanding of the characteristics and role of temperate grasslands, and its effect on living things. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Temperate Grasslands."
Other
Nsw Country Areas Program: Grassland
What is a grassland? Learn all about grasslands at this fun and informative site! Content explores the difference between a tropical and a temperate grassland, as well as focusing on the types of animals that live in a grassland.
Other
Radford University: Temperate Grasslands
This is part of a virtual geography project from Radford University. Learn about the climate, vegetation, grasses, soil and fauna of the temperate grasslands.
Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden: Grasslands
This site from the Missouri Botanical Gardens provides general information about different kinds of grasslands and the plants and animals of that type of region.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Grassland Animal Adaptations
Learn about the different animals that live in tropical and temperate grasslands and how they have adapted to their environment. Also discusses some plant adaptations.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Grassland Biome: Animals and Plants
Describes the characteristics, biodiversity, and the adaptations of the plants and animals of temperate and tropical grasslands.
University of California
Ucmp: The Grassland Biome
A good site to begin your study of grasslands as it gives clear definitions of terms and an explanation of how the grasslands came into existence.
University of California
Ucmp: The World's Biomes
This is an introduction to the major biomes on Earth. This page groups biomes into five major types: aquatic, deserts, forests, grasslands, and tundra. Information on climate, animal/plant life, and much more is given for each of type...
PBS
Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Grasslands
NatureWorks offers some great information about grasslands. Learn what grasslands are, the difference between tropical and temperate grasslands, the different types of prairie grasses, and grassland animals.
Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden: Grasslands of the World
This site from the Missouri Botanical Garden explores the two types of grasslands: tropical and temperate. A brief overview of the grasslands of the world is provided, including a color-coded map.
University of California
Ucmp: The World's Biomes
The University of California Museum of Paleontology hosts this site devoted to the study of the earth's biomes, which are the world's major communities, classified according to the predominant vegetation and adaptations of organisms to...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Biomes
This interactive resource adapted from NASA describes the different temperature, precipitation, and vegetation patterns in seven biomes: coniferous forest, temperate deciduous forest, desert, grassland, rainforest, shrubland, and tundra.
Other
Eco Library: Panoramas
Features amazing 360 degrees interactive panoramas for students to help them better understand ecological variation on our planet. Searchable by biome/ecosystem type, location, or ecological phenomena they depict.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Habitats of the World
This site has a lesson plan to use to start a unit on biomes and animal habitats. This plan incorporates grasslands, temperate forests, tropical rainforests, deserts, polar ice regions, and tidepools.
Other
Great Plains Nature Center
Click around in this site from the Great Plains Nature Center for some wonderful pictures and information about the Great Plains. Check the Flora and Fauna section for easy-to-read content on such animals as the bison, fox, squirrel; and...
Other
Introduction to Biomes
This site provides an introduction to biomes. There are also links to each different type of biome.
Next.cc
Next: Prairie
Complete these three activities to learn about prairies and where they are located. Includes links to explore related material.
University of California
U.c. Berkeley Libraries: Plant Distribution Maps
This resource provides a list of online maps of world vegetation such as biomes, forests and plants.
Travel Document Systems
Tds: Rwanda: Geography
Read about the climate, terrain, and rainfall in the country of Rwanda. Information is from the CIA World Fact Book.
Curated OER
Etc: Maps Etc: Vegetation of North America, 1916
A map from 1916 of North America, Central America, Greenland, and the Caribbean to Puerto Rico showing the general distribution of vegetation types in the region. The map is color-coded to show natural vegetation in areas of ice desert,...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Vegetation Map of Europe, 1916
A map of Europe showing areas of different types of natural vegetation including tundra and alpine flora, coniferous forests, broadleaf forests and meadows, temperate grasslands, deserts, and oases.