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
RECYCLING SITES
America
Recycles Day - November 15th
National
Recycling Coalition - Recycling 101
Best Books for Teaching About Recycling
Recycle-Reduce-Reuse
Links
Commonly
Recycled Materials
Dumptown
Game
The Internet Consumer
Recycling Guide
Reuse
and Recycle Links
Reduce, Reuse,
Recycle Theme Page - links
Elementary
Social Studies Recycling Curriculum
How
to Set Up a Recycing Program
Recycling:
Research/Information Sites
Recycling
Symbols
EPIC Teachers Site
- Recycling & Plastics
Add Some Green to Your Classroom
Recycling Crafts; Recycling Craft Ideas for Kids and Adults The Imagination Factory -
Creative ways to recycle by making art
 Up
Cycle art by Green Art Studios (plastic soda bottle flowers!)
COMPOSTING SITES
How Composting
Works (How Stuff Works)
Master Composter
Composting and Earth
Information Resources
Composting
RENEWABLE AND NONRENEWABLE ENERGY SITES SITES
Saving
Nonrenewable Energy Resources
Renewable
Energy Sources
Offshore
Windfarms in the United States?
Green Technology & Alternative Energy
Global Warming - Climate Change
35 Critical Facts about Global Warming
Global
Warming Links
Global
Warming Frequently Asked Questions
EPA Climate
Change Kids Site
Warming
of the Earth (Woods Hole)
Global Warming The Pew Center on
Global Climate Change
Global
Warming Facts and Our Future
Global Warming - NFW
Greenhouse Effect - animated diagram Global
Warming Lessons and Links
Global
Warming Activity
Global
warming-Activities
Environment -
Global Warming & Sustainability LiveScience
Climate Change Wildlife and Wildlands - Toolkit
ACID PRECIPITATION SITES
What is Acid
Rain?
The
Environmental Literacy Council - Acid Rain
Acid Rain Program: EPA's Clean
Air Market Programs
Acid Rain (Environment Canada)
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)
The
Toxic House
Tox Town: An Interactive
Guide to Commonly Encountered Toxic Substances
GOING GREEN
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
Kids
Corner: 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 |
