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Discovery Online Earth Alert - Attention! It's time for the weekly update on the state of the planet. Gather `round this map as I point to various icons and explain them. This one means there's a wildfire in Alaska, while this one marks a flood in India. Here's a rare breed of deer reintroduced to China, and a new turtle refuge in the United Arab Emirates. This squiggle over here is, hmm. I'm not sure. Oops, I think it's mustard from my lunch.
Dumptown Game - Welcome to Dumptown! Look around--there's litter and pollution, lots of garbage cans and dumpsters, but no way to recycle. You can save Dumptown. You can make things better, but you've got to do so in a cost-effective way. It won't be easy, but you can discover how proper management of resources can make a difference in saving this community. There will be lots of help, because this site is run by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Earth:The Living Planet - Editors of the World Book Multimedia Encyclopedia have prepared a feature on the earth, including information on the planet's physical features, its geological history, earth science, and human population. The feature includes an interactive quiz and multimedia.
Environmental Atlas - Are you interested in the environment and concerned about conservation and resource depletion? So is the Green Plan Center of the Resource Renewal Institute. They have treated this environmental atlas as an Inter Net-based tool for researching environmental policy worldwide. The atlas lets you view information about a country's environmental policies--just click on the appropriate continent. Stop at this site for a profile of your country's major environmental problems, a brief chronology of its environmental history, and any recent policy developments. Learn if global conditions are affecting your country's environment and how it is cooperating on environmental issues with neighboring countries and the world community. Preserving our world's natural resources is a global issue.
Environmental Defense Fund WorldWide - You can learn a lot about our environment at this home page of the Environmental Defense Fund. Do take the link to Hog Watch to learn about pollution caused by hog farm runoff. Parts of the site are not for the sensitive, so go on back to the EDF site and visit the Earth to Kids area. It has lots of neat things--like an Alpha Bestiary. Don't know what that is? Then check this site. Don't miss the animal concentration game called Kokoto--it's fun to play, and you'll learn something about the birds and beasts as you make your match.
Environmental Protection Agency - Teachers & Students - Check out these excellent handouts on the functions of a wetland, the various types, and the threats facing wetlands today. You can find out how to adopt a nearby wetland and help protect it. Tothese files you will need an Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) reader. The Adobe Acrobat reader can be downloaded for free if you don't already have it.
Explore the GLOBE Program - GLOBE stands for Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment. It's an environmental education and science partnership of students, teachers, and scientists. Through collaboration, they try to increase environmental awareness throughout the world and to contribute to a better understanding of Earth. Students take measurements and make observations of the weather and environment around their schools. This data is shared via the Internet with other students and scientists around the world. All the details are patched together to make a view of the world as it's seen through the student findings at 6,500 schools in over 80 countries.
The Earth Day Challenge - Enjoy playing an environmental scavenger hunt that challenges students in grades K-6 to learn more about the environment and how to help take care of it. Go to this site for details and to register. This is a free activity--registration is required only if you want to win prizes.
You Can & Acid Rain - How can rain be an acid? It starts out as regular rain, but then it falls through air pollution. It becomes a weak acid that can dissolve marble, kill trees, and ruin a lake's entire ecosystem. You can help. Here's how to make an acid finder and how to test rainwater. Let Beakman and Jax explain this phenomenon, first identified in England in 1872. Smoke from burning coal was the cause then, as it remains now.
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