American History

Humans depend on water for survival, just as virtually all life does. Yet in our society today, we are faced with a problem concerning this necessary resource for survival. With many people living in town/urban settings, should water distribution remain publicly owned, as it is in many areas, or should water distribution be privatized? There are arguments for both stances.

Graphs on this website can be manipulated to change fecundity rates, rates of survivorship, and the average age of the population, so that students will better understand how population growth rates work and function. This activity would work well when teaching about stable-age distributions and population demographics.

IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, helps the world find pragmatic solutions to our most pressing environmental and development challenges.

CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) is an international organization that aims to curtail the trade of endangered and threatened species to conserve natural populations by eliminating illegal hunting, deforestation, illegal trade and species introduction.

This page provides a succinct and brief history of Congress's actions concerning the Endangered Species Act. Not only does this site teach about the Endangered Species Act, but it also serves as an excellent resource for studying legislative action throughout the second half of the twentieth century. This page also tells about The Endangered Species Act in regards to CITES.