These sites encourage students to use observational skills and develop opportunities to record data over time to see trends and relationships. www.cnps/gallery/gallery.htm This site is maintained by the California Native Plant Society and is a collection of excellent photographs of California native plants. The pictures are clear and enable observers to compare plant characteristics. www.cnps/kidstuff/kidstuff.htm This site is also maintained by the California Native Plant Society. It includes excellent line drawings of plant parts and descriptions of parts and functions to help students make better use of plant dissections and other hands-on use of plant material. www.earthcamforkids.com/ This site is maintained by Earthcam to give access to many live camera sites around the world. Some sites are stop tall buildings and others are inside science museums and displays. Several sites are from the San Francisco Bay Area. www.mykoweb.com/BAF/ This site has been developed by Fungi of the San Francisco Bay Area. It is a summary of fungal organisms using pictures and text to explain about these unique organisms. Since my lesson has to do with the observation of contents of a jar, some of the organisms that develop in the jars will be molds and fungi, understanding of them will be beneficial. www.tma.fungifacts.cjb.net/ This site adds more information about fungi. http://Geography.Berkeley.EDU/weather/climagraphs.html This site is developed by the Geography Department of the University of California. The climagraphs provide extensive information about local weather. Pictures and current weather statistics enable students to collect, record, display, and interpret actual weather data. www.calalive.org This site has been developed by the California Institute for Biodiversity in Oakland. It contains wonderful information, still pictures, panoramas of a variety of habitats throughout California. The site enables viewers to travel to various biological habitats around the state, observing similarities and differences in different parts of California.