BBC
Bbc: Climate Change
Play this online game to see if you can persuade European nations to reduce their carbon emissions to help our global climate. You are the president, "the future is in your hands!" Archived.
NASA
Nasa: Earth Observatory
The purpose of NASA's Earth Observatory is to provide new satellite imagery and scientific information about our home planet to the public. The focus is on Earth's climate and environmental change.
National Institutes of Health
Niehs: Kids' Pages
Learn about keeping our environment clean with the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences' Web Page. There are web resources for environmental issues, games and activities and coloring pages, too.
BBC
Bbc: Development and Health
This interactive website is a lesson for students in determining the factors that divide developed and developing countries. Major health issues of each are also included. Archived.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Biology: Eoct Preparation
Students participate in this comprehensive review to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of all topics within the scope of this biology course in preparation for successful completion of the Georgia End of Course Exam. It can also be...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Introduction to Environmental Science
With this collection of video tutorials and student assignments, students learn about the interdisciplinary science that focuses primarily on solving environmental problems.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: The Interdisciplinary Nature of Environmental Science
This interactive module gives students the opportunity to study how environmental science integrates several different disciplines of science as well as economics and political science.
Biotechnology Institute
Biotechnology Institute: Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology [Pdf]
New and exciting career opportunities are developing as the biotechnology industry finds ways to manufacture and produce more eco-friendly products and materials for the consumer. Read about the efforts and strides being made and how...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Liberty Lands
In this What's Up In The Environment? video segment, learn how a contaminated plot of land in Philadelphia was recycled into a beautiful public park called Liberty Lands.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Solar House
In this What's Up in the Environment? video segment, an electrical engineer in Virginia and his 13-year-old son explain how they produce electricity in their home. [3:58]
University of Guelph
Canada's Polar Environments
This site is a set of images along with volumes of information make this site a treasure trove. The site has satellite images.
University of Chicago
American Environmental Photographs 1891 1936
An interesting site that shows early photographs by Henry Chandler Cowles and George Damon Fuller and others. The images range from ecological settings to the consequences of human changes to the environment.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Career Profile: Environmental Engineering Technician
Read about the environmental engineering technicians who do the hands-on work that is developed by the environmental engineer. Science Buddies offers a career profile which outlines the educational requirements and lays out the nature of...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Career Profile: Environmental Compliance Inspector
If you care about the environment and are interested in a career which protects it, you might want to investigate the career of environmental compliance inspector. These inspectors are employed by governmental agencies as well as large...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: What Is Home Sweet Home to a Bug?
If you had to choose between having your favorite dessert, going to a movie, or spending the night at a friend's house, which would you choose? This project shows you how you can "ask" a sowbug (or pill bug) a similar question in order...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Getting Carried Away: Measuring Soil Erosion
When you think of environmental challenges facing the world, the first things that come to mind might be global warming, or loss of biodiversity, since these are often in the newspapers. A serious problem that you may not have heard...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: How Does Soil Affect the P H of Water?
Did you know that soils can be alkaline, neutral, or acidic? Most plants grow best in soil near neutral pH, but some plants prefer slightly acidic and others slightly alkaline soil. What is the pH of the soil in your garden? What happens...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: It's Raining, It's Pouring: Chemical Analysis of Rainwater
Here is an interesting project that could be approached from several different scientific angles: Environmental Science, Weather & Atmosphere, Chemistry, or Plant Biology. You can probably think of your own variations to emphasize...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Acid Rain and Aquatic Life
Chemicals from the Earth's atmosphere are making their way down to the planet. Not in spaceships, but in rain. The acid rain can infiltrate ground water, lakes, and streams. How does acid rain affect aquatic ecosystems?
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: History of the Epa
A complete history of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency including a timeline, publications, biographies of administrators, origins of the Agency, and photographs.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigation Erosion in Our World
In this lab activity, students will look for evidence of erosion in river or streams. This activity should take place after students have observed erosion in a model.
Technology Student
Technology Student: Technology and the Environment
This site focuses on alternate energy sources and how they can help us save our environment.
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Pale Male: Citizen Hawk of New York City [Pdf]
A reader's theater script for Janet Schulman's children's picture book, Pale Male: Citizen Hawk of New York City, is provided on these pages. Five character roles are needed in this activity.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: Invaders
This game is based on the PBS Kids' series, Plum Landing. Students will read various informational texts about invasive species. Then students will attempt to rid various regions of their invasive species.