As part of a school project, these students took the chapter on biomes in their biology text and produced a series of videos about biomes, but not just any biomes. These students chose to present the biomes of the Lord of the Rings.
Join Gandalf and Frodo below the fold as they revisit a not-so-perilous Middle Earth, where wargs, oliphaunts and huorns are just functional groups in an ecosystem.
Intro
Tundra
Taiga
You can find the rest of the series on YouTube.
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