Pbs Teachers: Helping Kids Help the Environment

Define and explore the concept of environmental citizenship through a series of literacy-based multimedia, online and hands-on learning experiences. Discover how responsible citizens can help protect their local communities by volunteering. Examine the concept of environmental citizenship as it applies to land pollution by exploring the value of recycling and ways people can reduce or reuse trash, air pollution by identifying several causes of air pollution and ways people in a community can combat the problem, and water pollution by identifying ways that children and adults can conserve and protect water sources. Compare a healthy aquatic environment with an unhealthy one.