Classroom Activity Resources
| Alternative Energy Sources | A lab activity that uses marshmallows to investigate simple solar cookers (made, e.g., from umbrellas). |
| Athena Earth & Space Science for k-12 | |
Branching Out | The North Carolina Forest Stewardship Activity Guide. |
| Brucie's Buddies | The web site is a fun safe way for your kids to learn more about the environment on-line through activities, cartoons, contributions, and a direct e-mail line to Bruce C Gull himself. |
| California Environmental Resources Evaluation System (CERES) | Offers an on-line transdisciplinary Environmental Education Web. |
| Canadian Network of Toxicology Centres | Offers an educator's resource guide entitled, Toxicology - An Environmental Education Unit for Secondary Schools and Communities which contains a 7-lesson study guide with teacher information and student worksheets as well as a teacher's guide, and other resource materials. |
| Celebrate Earth Day with Dr. Suess's Lorax! | |
| Children's Ozone Art | Artwork from the 1998 "Healing the Ozone Layer with Small Brushes" United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Children's Painting Competition. Individual pieces can be sent as e-postcards. |
| A 4-H curriculum in waste management and environmental restoration for youth in grades six through nine. | |
| Discovery Channel School | |
| The Earth Balloon | Complete K-12 curriculum featuring lesson plans on: Natural Environments, Rain Forests, Man's Impact on the Earth - The Aral Sea, Population Clusters, etc. |
| Earth Day Groceries Project | |
| Earth Day Network | This site contains links to 20 other volunteer-maintained Earth Day '97 sites. |
| Earth Education Partnership Program (EEPP) | An international effort to bring issues of environmentally sustainable development into high school classrooms. |
| Earth System Science Educational Resources | A compilation of sites providing on-line learning activites, interactive environmental data, and resources for teachers and students. (Click on the "Education" link from the left hand tool bar.) |
| Educating Young People About Water | Designed to help educators develop a community-based, youth water education program that targets youth and links key community members in partnerships--all working toward common water education goals. |
| EELink | |
| Elephants of Sri Lanka | A book that documents the unique role of elephants in the ancient as well as the modern culture of Sri Lanka. |
| Energy and the Environment | Including an Energy and the Environment WEB Class, links to many Internet resources on energy and the ozone layer. From the Electronic Universe Project. |
| Energy Quest | Energy activities and from the California Energy Commission. Includes energy science projects. |
| English Naturally | English Country Schools's unique program encourages appreciation of the natural environment through the study of English. |
| Environmental Education Index | |
EPA's RECYCLE CITY! | Exploring Recycle City is an easy way to learn about the three R's -- reduce, reuse and recycle. Designed primarily for middle-school students, it's a lively point-and-click journey for all ages that demonstrates how individuals, businesses and communities can work together to cut waste. |
| Exploring The Environment | From Nasa's Classroom of the Future |
| Farm*A*Syst/Home*A*Syst | This voluntary program is a partnership between government and private business that enables individuals to prevent pollution on local farms, ranches, and homes using confidential environmental assessments. |
| From the Ground Up | An on-line teacher's guide with five lessons: The History of Agriculture and a Description of Sustainable Development; Soil; Agriculture and Chemicals; The Real Cost of Food; and Everything's Connected. |
| Generation Earth | Is an excellent resource for use in the classroom in planning water education programs and voicing community water education needs. |
| Give Water a Hand | Is an excellent resource for use in the classroom in planning water education programs and voicing community water education needs. |
| Global SchoolNet Project Registry | Lists collaborative classroom projects by the month that they begin. Also has a a form for registering your own project. |
| Good Green Fun! | Explore tropical and temperate forests of the world through Internet searching activities and the musical adventures of Good Green Fun! |
| How to do an Earth Day on Your Block | |
| The Imagination Factory | This is an excellent, award winning, innovative site, which promotes recycling through art. Visit this site and meet Trashasaurus Rex |
| JASON Project. | During the JASON VII expedition, researchers, students, and teachers will join Dr. Robert Ballard in an investigation of several interconnected shallow-water habitats in Southern Florida-the Everglades, Florida Bay, Florida Keys, the Florida reef tract, and the relic reefs on Pourtals Terrace." |
| K-12 teacher's guide with student materials for celebrating Muir's lifetime of conservation. | |
| Kids Renew America | Over 46 environmental programs organized and run by Kids! |
| KidZone | Information for students and activities for the classroom from the National Wildlife Federation |
| Lesson Plans & Teaching Strategies for Social Studies | This is an excellent collection of lesson plans from ERIC, Big Sky and Houghton Mifflin, to name just a few, where social studies are used to increase the understanding of environmental issues, multicultural awareness, local community issues, personal impacts on government and geography. |
| NASA Education Program | |
| National Envirothon | Designed as a way to teach kids about environmental education the best teams from 40 states and two Canadian provinces come together during the summer to compete with one another in five subjects: Wildlife, Forestry, Soil, Aquatics, and Current Environmental Issues. |
| NOAA's Earth Day '97 Homepage | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's research laboratories' focus for Earth Day 1997 is the connection between people and the environment. NOAA labs have put together a web site that shows key areas of research that relate to the themes of Earth Day and how human activity can affect natural systems. |
| Ocean Planet Instructional Materials | Activities, stories, and facts about oceans, compiled as part of the Ocean Planet exhibition of the Smithsonian Institution. |
| Pacific Whales Education | |
| Rainforest Action Network Kid's Corner | Information about rainforest flora and fauna, including lesson plan ideas and neat images of amphibians, birds, and mammals. |
| Renew America | A non-profit organization founded in 1989, which helps inspire communities and businesses to meet today's environmental challenges. |
| Sea World Teacher's Guides | Select activities from the Teacher's Guide, dealing with whales and dolphins, walrus, manatees, and gorillas. |
| The Invention and Design Project. | A project to facilitate a better understanding of the processes involved in invention and design through extended case-studies. |
| The Sun's Joules | A multimedia encyclopedia on renewable energy and the environment. This link is for the Internet demo version. |
| Water Science for Schools | The Water Resources Department of the U.S. Geological Survey designed this site to help students and teachers learn more about water and water usage. |
| WhaleNet | Check out our WhaleNet Information Packet for teachers. |
| Whales--A Thematic Web Unit | with a bibliography, homework ideas, book reviews, project ideas, and student activities in social studies, research, math, language arts, etc. and more. |
| WWF Global Network | Click here to find out more about the living planet, forests for life, climate change and endangered seas campaigns. |
| Young Environmentalists' Actions (YEA) | Action-oriented newsletters designed so that elementary school students, parents and teachers can do their part to protect the Earth. |
| Youth for Environmental Service (YES) | YES is a new organization, but in the last two years has spoken to over 35,000 students and gotten over 10,000 involved in environmental community service projects. |