Post date: May 15, 2018 3:36:29 PM
What Is the Most Serious Problem Earth Faces?
Lesson Plan Resources
WebQuest Internet Resources
WebQuest
For this WebQuest, you will use library and Internet resources to research your team's Earth issue. We have identified some Internet resources for each issue listed below. An * indicates that a resource is an easy-reading resource.
Air Pollution
http://whyfiles.org/030air_pollution/
* The Last Gasp Gazette (pages 1,2)
http://www.aqmd.gov/ej/CAC/kids/kidspages.pdf
* Environmental Explorers Club: Air
http://www.epa.gov/kids/air.htm
* World Almanac for Kids: The Air We Breathe
http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/WAKI-ViewArticle.aspx?pin=wak-009007
http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/air/kids/Kids_Page.htm
http://www.clean-air-kids.org.uk/airquality.html
On the Trail of the Missing Ozone
http://www.epa.gov/ozone/science/missoz/
What's All the Fuss About Air Pollution?
http://www.hcdoes.org/airquality/kids/Pollution.htm
Motor Vehicles and Air Pollution Quiz
http://www.epa.gov/OMSWWW/quiz/quiz-env.htm
Protecting Your Health: Air Pollution
http://www.lungusa.org/healthy-air/outdoor/protecting-your-health/
Cars and Trucks and Air Pollution: Clean Vehicles
http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_vehicles/vehicle_impacts/cars_pickups_and_suvs/cars-trucks-air-pollution.html
http://www.lbl.gov/Education/ELSI/pollution-main.html
The Science of Ozone Depletion
http://www.epa.gov/ozone/science/
http://www.epa.gov/students/air.htm
Energy Depletion
http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/index.html
* Energy Information Administration Kids Page
http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/
http://www.eere.energy.gov/kids/
* Department of Energy for Students & Kids
http://www.energy.gov/forstudentsandkids.htm
http://tiki.oneworld.net/energy/energy.html
http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=kids.kids_index
http://www.touchstoneenergykids.com/
http://www.powerhousekids.com/KIDS/index.htm
A Consumer's Guide to Energy Efficiency
http://www.eere.energy.gov/consume/
Natural Resources Defense Council: Energy
http://www.nrdc.org/air/energy/default.asp
Energy Information Administration
http://www.eia.doe.gov/
EIA (Energy Information Administration) Energy Kids
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/kids/
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
http://www.nrel.gov/
Overflowing Landfills
* Environmental Explorers Club: Garbage and Recycling
http://www.epa.gov/kids/garbage.htm
* The Rotten Truth About Garbage
http://www.astc.org/exhibitions/rotten/rthome.htm
* Trash Facts (from Keep America Beautiful)
http://web.archive.org/web/20040227133904/http://www.kab.org/trashfacts.cfm
Planet Protectors Create Less Waste in the First Place
http://www.epa.gov/osw/education/pdfs/jellyjar.pdf
http://www.epa.gov/osw/education/pdfs/k00-001.pdf
Museum of Solid Waste: Introduction to Solid Waste (pages 10-17)
http://www.need.org/needpdf/Museum%20of%20Solid%20Waste%20&%20Energy.pdf
Museum of Solid Waste: Landfilling (pages 38-41)
http://www.need.org/needpdf/Museum%20of%20Solid%20Waste%20&%20Energy.pdf
Museum of Solid Waste: Introduction to Recycling (pages 18-37)
http://www.need.org/needpdf/Museum%20of%20Solid%20Waste%20&%20Energy.pdf
http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/recycling/
Garbage: How Can My Community Reduce Solid Waste?
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/garbage/intro.html
http://www.acnatsci.org/research/kye/landfills.html
Brown County Landfill Kids Page: Fun Factoids
http://www.browncountylandfill.com/kid.html
Rain Forest Destruction
http://www.rainforestheroes.com
http://www.eduweb.com/amazon.html
* Take a Walk in the Rain Forest
http://www.pbs.org/tal/costa_rica/rainwalk.html
http://www.arborday.org/programs/RainForestRescue.html
* Exploring the Tropical Rain Forest
http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/rforest/explore/valley.htm
Tropical Rainforest Information for Kids
http://kids.mongabay.com/
http://www.worldwildlife.org/what/wherewework/amazon/index.html
Tropical Rainforest: Rainforest Biomes
http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/rainforest.htm
http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/resources.cfm?id=facts
http://www.pbs.org/journeyintoamazonia/
http://www.ran.org/
http://www.rain-tree.com/facts.htm
http://library.thinkquest.org/20248/inicio.html
Vanishing Species
http://endangeredspecie.com/
* Kids Planet E-Species Animal Fact Sheets
http://www.kidsplanet.org/factsheets/map.html
* Endangered: Exploring a World at Risk
http://www.amnh.org/nationalcenter/Endangered/index.html
http://whyfiles.org/015species_restore/index.html
Bagheera: An Endangered Species and Endangered Animal Web Site
http://www.bagheera.com/
Endangered Animals: Rare, Threatened, and Endangered Animals and Mammals
http://www.animalinfo.org/
http://library.thinkquest.org/11353/e-animals.htm/
http://www.endangeredspecie.com/map.htm
Bagheera: An Endangered Species and Endangered Animal Web Site
http://www.bagheera.com/
School World's Endangered Species Project
http://www.schoolworld.asn.au/species/species.html
Endangered Species (World Wildlife Fund)
http://www.worldwildlife.org/endangered/index.cfm
Endangered Species of the Next Millennium
http://library.thinkquest.org/25014/english.index.shtml
http://species.fws.gov/
http://eelink.net/EndSpp/
Water Pollution
http://www.epa.gov/OWOW/NPS/kids/
* Environmental Explorers Club: Water
http://www.epa.gov/kids/water.htm
* Especially for Kids: Clean Water
http://www.oceansidecleanwaterprogram.org/kids.asp
http://www.water-pollution.org.uk/
http://www.chewonki.org/cleanwater/water_pollution.asp
http://www.epa.gov/students/water.html
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0851609.html
The Quality of Our Nation's Water (EPA)
http://www.epa.gov/305b/