Explore Your Environment
Directions: Spend 15 minutes outside or inside your home
or school. Use your senses to answer these questions:
1. List everything you see.
2. Breathe in and describe what
you smell.
3. Close your eyes and list the sounds that you hear.
Where did they come from?
4. Touch something (not another
person) close by and describe how it feels.
Learning About Your Environment
Culver Company, Inc.
Written
by Cybrary Man
Cooperative Learning Activity – Environment
Earth Day which should be celebrated every day
lends itself to several cooperative learning sessions.
After doing research on their topic they have
to come up with a final product to illustrate what they have
learned. Projects can include recyclable art, compost heap,
explanation of the recycling symbols, layered rainforest bulletin
board, house showing possible toxic products, etc.
You can divide your class into the following
groups where the students will be experts in these areas:
Rainforest
Global Warming
The Toxic House
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Acid Precipitation
Going Green
Composting
Renewable Resources
Nonrenewable Resources
Environmental Careers
RAINFOREST
LINKS
COMPOSTING SITES
How Composting
Works (How Stuff Works)
Master Composter
Composting and Earth
Information Resources
RENEWABLE AND NONRENEWABLE ENERGY SITES SITES
Saving
Nonrenewable Energy Resources
Renewable
Energy Sources
Green Technology & Alternative Energy
Global Warming - Climate Change
35 Critical Facts about Global Warming
Global
Warming Frequently Asked Questions
EPA Climate
Change Kids Site
Global Warming The Pew Center on
Global Climate Change
Global
Warming Facts and Our Future
Global Warming - NFW
Greenhouse Effect - animated diagram Global
warming-Activities
Global Warming
Interactive Environment -
Global Warming & Sustainability LiveScience
Climate Change Wildlife and Wildlands - Toolkit
Acid Precipitation Sites
The
Environmental Literacy Council - Acid Rain
Acid Rain Program: EPA's Clean
Air Market Programs
Stratospheric
Ozone
NASA
- Ozone Resource Page
Waste and Hazardous Substances
The Toxic
House
How Can My
Community Reduce Waste?
Hey!
Don't Throw that Out!
Exploring
the Waste Land
Waste
Reduction in the Home
Municipal Solid Waste (MSW
State Data) Tox Town: An Interactive
Guide to Commonly Encountered Toxic Substances
Going Green
50 Ways to Go Green in the Classroom
Go
Green! « Sing Imagination
Taking It to the Class: Green Projects for the Classroom | Edutopia Greener Choices:
Products for a Better Planet
National Green Pages NRDC Building Green
Free House Plans, Home Plans
& Floor Plans For Green Home Building Green Home Guide Getting
Green Field Trip
ENVIRONMENTAL CAREERS
Environmental Career
Guide
Environmental
Scientists and Hydrologists
EnviroEducation.com
- Environment Careers and Jobs.
EPA Careers US EPA
Endangered Species
EE-LInk : Endangered
Species
Endangered Specie: The Rarest
Info Around
Endangered
Species Program
Endangered Species
Coalition
Animal Info -
Information on Rare, Threatened and Endangered Mammals
Alaska Scenery
Photograph by Cybrary Man
Biomes
My Biomes
Page
EcoKids
Activities and Games
Games@NOAA
ActionBioscience - promoting bioscience
literacy
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