Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Be the Change: Water Facts and Conservation Tips
Explains why it is important to conserve water and tips for doing so.
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Be the Change: Waste Minimization
Where does trash go when you throw it away? Is there really an 'away?' Watch a video about trash and conduct a waste audit at your school to see how much waste is produced, what types, and what goes into producing it. Then see what waste...
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Be the Change: Recycling and Beyond Story Closing the Loop
A slideshow explaining the steps in the recycling process and how the loop is closed when you buy goods made with recycled materials.
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Water Wonders: Mercury in Homes and Schools
Learn where mercury can be found at home and at school, how exposure affects humans, ways to protect yourself from it, and the damage it is doing to the natural environment.
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Outdoor Safety: Warning! The Rays of the Sun Can Be Harmful!
Learn about the harmful effects on humans of ultraviolet radiation caused by the depletion of the ozone layer.
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Outdoor Safety: Global Warming Is Hot Stuff!
Global warming is a hot topic (no pun intended). The Earth is warming up. While that may be hard to believe in the middle of winter, if it's true it could mean big changes for our planet. For more info on this topic, browse on!
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Experiments: Staying Warm Winter Experiments
A lot of your body heat escapes from your head. Wearing a hat stops some of this heat loss. Try this simple experiment to prove it.
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Art and Crafts: Edible Aquifer
Groundwater is stored in and moves slowly through layers of soil, sand and rocks called aquifers. To help you visualize groundwater, you will make an aquifer, in this case, an edible one. This will show you how groundwater is stored and...
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Diary of a Park Ranger
This site is dedicated to informing one on how to become a park ranger.
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Tree Trivia! Can You Pass This Test?
This site provides a fun and challenging trivia quiz. Will test your knowledge of trees. Grades 4-8.
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Balsam Fir
Discover the way to tell a true fir by the way the cone stands on the ends of the branches. Offers identifying characteristics of this evergreen.
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Eek!: Cicada
This site provides a brief but concise description of this interesting insect. Grades 4-8.
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Eek!: Snug in the Snow
Understand hibernation and what animals do to prepare for it.
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Eek!: Leave Animals in the Wild
Discover what you need to know about what makes an animal wild, including the time and energy it takes to keep a wild animal, well, wild.
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Habitats
Take a look at some of the different habitats that are home to many plants and animals including black bears, owls and various species of birds.
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Environmental Education for Kids!
This site is an electronic magazine that features information concerning the great outdoors. This site includes information on animals, nature, earth, careers, activities, teacher lessons, and media.
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Environmental Careers: Gone Fishing? Life as a Fisheries Biologist
A short description of what it takes to become a fisheries biologist and what they do.
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Species With Status: Locally Common
Common species are those that exist in large numbers. Locally common species are common in a specific area or defined range. One example of a Wisconsin common species is presented here, the southern map turtle.
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Be the Change: Recipes for Composting
Some recipes for composting, with a link to how to compost with worms.
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Outdoor Safety: Jeepers, Creepers, How Do You Protect Your Peepers?
Learn how to protect your eyes from harmful sun rays.