Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Chile
Facts about Chile including environmental issues, geography, ecology and biodiversity, people, energy resources, natural resources, economy, and conflict.
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Botswana
Facts about Botswana including environmental issues, geography, government, people, water, economy, agriculture, health, natural resources, energy resources, and conflict.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Greenhouse Gases
Do you understand the relationship between temperature and carbon dioxide in our atmosphere? This computer model shows factors such as clouds and carbon dioxide that could cause global temperatures to rise. Students investigate how the...
Other
Oresome Resources: Mining Helps Make Your House Interactive
An interactive activity for you to find out how much your lifestyle depends on mining. Students select household items and learn facts about their chemical nature, properties and uses, their origins in the Earth, mining, and production.
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Brazil
Facts about Brazil including environmental issues, background, geography, biodiversity and ecology, ecoregions, government, people, water, economy, energy, natural resources, industries, and conflict.
PBS
Pbs: Pov Borders: Environment
Point of View is television's longest running showcase for independent non-fiction films. This particular feature provides insight regarding alternative means of energy, transport, and the consumption of natural resources. Video, games,...
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]
NASA
Nasa: Exploring Climate Change
Test your knowledge of energy and its role in Earth's climate system with these interactive quizzes.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Products From Petroleum
Students explore and investigate with some common products made from petroleum.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Products Made From Petroleum
Small groups to research products made from petroleum other than fuels. The challenge is to find such products "hiding in plain sight."
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Properties of Fluids in Reservoirs
This investigation will help students understand the physical relationships between natural gas, oil, and water in a reservoir and how these relationships can affect recovery.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Wind Power Study Guide
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This study guide summarizes key points about wind energy. Includes a few questions to check for understanding.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Metabolism and Replication
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How organisms get energy and replicate.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Metabolism and Replication
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How organisms get energy and replicate.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Global Wind Belts
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how regional differences in solar radiation create global wind belts.
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Chad
Facts about Chad including environmental issues, geography, government, people, water, economy, agriculture, health, natural resources, energy use, and conflict.
Other
Earth Day Canada: Eco Kids: Limit Food Waste
Each year, people throw out millions of tons of food that could still be eaten. That is a lot of food! Even when we compost food waste there are still some negative impacts. Resources like water and energy are used to grow and transport...
Climate Literacy
Clean: Climate: A Balancing Act
This activity allows students to explore how Earth's energy balance is regulating climate.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Albedo Decrease Linked to Vanishing Arctic Sea Ice
Examine this visualization by NASA to understand how the warming of the Arctic region has caused the sea ice extent to decline by 40%, thereby throwing our earth's energy budget off balance. Extensive resources included are teaching...
Other
The Sustainable Scale Project: Ecological Footprint
The Ecological Footprint is rooted in the fact that all renewable resources come from the earth. It accounts for the flows of energy and matter to and from any defined economy and converts these into the corresponding land/water area...
NASA
The Earth Sun System
This resource provides some interesting video footage of the Sun. Also included is information about the effects of solar radiation on the Earth's magnetosphere and weather.
Climate Literacy
Clean: Climate Feedback Loops
This is the seventh of nine lessons from a student learning module called "Visualizing and Understanding the Science of Climate Change." This lesson addresses climate feedback loops and how these loops help drive and regulate Earth's...
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Natural Gas Formation
For this investigation, students make a simple model of how gasses can form from decaying material. They will also explore the effects of temperature on gas formation.
Energy4Me
Energy4me: Geothermal
Find out how geothermal energy is used as a source of usable electricity.