Our Living World is a website where students, community members, teachers, and parents can find information and programs about environmental issues and curricula. We are currently hosting 2 programs which are geographically based in the New York Metropolitan region, but which may be of interest to people everywhere. As time goes on we will expland our offerings and programs.

The Our Living World Newsletter will soon be avialable from the Our Schools and Our Living World sites, as well as through a listserv. Watch for it!

SoundView is a field and technology based program which integrates News 12 editorials about the Long Island Sound and related environmental issues with 4 grade levels of integrated curriculum. Classes will visit a local SoundView nature center where they will note site characteristics and take measurements of air and water. Back in their classrooms, students will analyse the data and post it to a database on the website for inclusion in the SoundView data archive which will be avialable for use by students, teachers, environmentalists, and community members. Students will also be able to discuss the data (Online) with other participating schools and continue their explorations with supplemental classroom and Online activites.

Organizations contributing to SoundView include The Queens College Center for Environmental Teaching and Research, Save the Sound, Friends of the Bay, Stoneybrook University, Long Island Team, Sweetbriar Nature Center, Garvies Point Preserve, Theodore Roosevelt Sanctuary, and others.

WeatherView is a joint project of MUSPIN/CCNY/CUNY and Optimum Online/Our Schools open to middle and high schools that will monitor the New York Metropolitan Weather using the Davis weather monitoring station. Raw data will be downloded for manipulation in spreadsheets as well as being posted Online in the WeatherView database where it will be archived and can be graphically displayed. WeatherView content will be integrated into Earth Science and Meteorology, with extensions into math, physics, English, history, etc. Students will also be able to partner with classes in other Our Schools locations to explore and anylze the data.

The Our Living World site is hosted by Optimum Online, a service of Cablevision.

Find out about the Our Schools / SoundView integrated curriculum.   Read the latest News 12 editorials about environmental issues.   Explore the nature sites in your area.   Find out about environmental events and programs.   Check out the best environmental sites Online!   Information and statistics about the Long Island Sound.