What Is the Most Serious Problem Earth Faces
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What Is the Most Serious Problem Earth Faces? WebQuest Internet Resources Links last updated 03/18/2010 For this WebQuest, you will use library and Internet resources to research your team's Earth issue. We have identified some Internet resources for each issue listed below. An * indicates that a resource is an easy-reading resource for students in grades 3-4. Air Pollution * The Air That We Breathe http://whyfiles.org/030air_pollution/ * The Last Gasp Gazette (pages 1,2) http://www.aqmd.gov/ej/CAC/kids/kidspages.pdf * Environmental Explorers Club: Air http://www.epa.gov/kids/air.htm * World Almanac for Kids: The Air We Breathe http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/WAKI-ViewArticle.aspx?pin=wak-009007 * Air Quality: Just for Kids http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/air/kids/Kids_Page.htm * Clean Air Kids: Air Quality http://www.clean-air-kids.org.uk/airquality.html On the Trail of the Missing Ozone http://www.epa.gov/ozone/science/missoz/ What's All the Fuss About Air Pollution? http://www.hcdoes.org/airquality/kids/Pollution.htm Motor Vehicles and Air Pollution Quiz http://www.epa.gov/OMSWWW/quiz/quiz-env.htm Protecting Your Health: Air Pollution http://www.lungusa.org/healthy-air/outdoor/protecting-your-health/ Cars and Trucks and Air Pollution: Clean Vehicles http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_vehicles/vehicle_impacts/cars_pickups_and_suvs/cars-trucks-airpollution.html Indoor and Outdoor Pollution http://www.lbl.gov/Education/ELSI/pollution-main.html The Science of Ozone Depletion http://www.epa.gov/ozone/science/ EPA Student Center: Air http://www.epa.gov/students/air.htm What Is the Most Serious Problem Earth Faces? WebQuest Internet Resources Links last updated 03/18/2010 For this WebQuest, you will use library and Internet resources to research your team's Earth issue. We have identified some Internet resources for each issue listed below. An * indicates that a resource is an easy-reading resource for students in grades 3-4 Energy Depletion Energy Quest http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/index.html * Energy Information Administration Kids Page http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/ * Kids Saving Energy http://www.eere.energy.gov/kids/ * Department of Energy for Students & Kids http://www.energy.gov/forstudentsandkids.htm * Energy Guide for Kids http://tiki.oneworld.net/energy/energy.html * Energy Star Kids http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=kids.kids_index * Touchstone Energy Kids Zone http://www.touchstoneenergykids.com/ * Alliant Energy Kids http://www.powerhousekids.com/KIDS/index.htm A Consumer's Guide to Energy Efficiency http://www.eere.energy.gov/consume/ Natural Resources Defense Council: Energy http://www.nrdc.org/air/energy/default.asp Energy Information Administration http://www.eia.doe.gov/ EIA (Energy Information Administration) Energy Kids http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/kids/ National Renewable Energy Laboratory http://www.nrel.gov/ What Is the Most Serious Problem Earth Faces? WebQuest Internet Resources Links last updated 03/18/2010 For this WebQuest, you will use library and Internet resources to research your team's Earth issue. We have identified some Internet resources for each issue listed below. An * indicates that a resource is an easy-reading resource for students in grades 3-4 Rain Forest Destruction Rainforest Heroes http://www.rainforestheroes.com * Amazon Interactive http://www.eduweb.com/amazon.html * Take a Walk in the Rain Forest http://www.pbs.org/tal/costa_rica/rainwalk.html * Rain Forest Rescue http://www.arborday.org/programs/RainForestRescue.html * Exploring the Tropical Rain Forest http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/rforest/explore/valley.htm Tropical Rainforest Information for Kids http://kids.mongabay.com/ Rainforests 2015 http://www.worldwildlife.org/what/wherewework/amazon/index.html Tropical Rainforest: Rainforest Biomes http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/rainforest.htm Forest Facts http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/resources.cfm?id=facts Journey Into Amazonia http://www.pbs.org/journeyintoamazonia/ Rain Forest Action Network http://www.ran.org/ Rain Forest Facts http://www.rain-tree.com/facts.htm Amazon Life http://library.thinkquest.org/20248/inicio.html What Is the Most Serious Problem Earth Faces? WebQuest Internet Resources Links last updated 03/18/2010 For this WebQuest, you will use library and Internet resources to research your team's Earth issue. We have identified some Internet resources for each issue listed below. An * indicates that a resource is an easy-reading resource for students in grades 3-4 Vanishing Species * EndangeredSpecies.com http://endangeredspecie.com/ * Kids Planet E-Species Animal Fact Sheets http://www.kidsplanet.org/factsheets/map.html * Endangered: Exploring a World at Risk http://www.amnh.org/nationalcenter/Endangered/index.html * Return of the Species http://whyfiles.org/015species_restore/index.html Bagheera: An Endangered Species and Endangered Animal Web Site http://www.bagheera.com/ Endangered Animals: Rare, Threatened, and Endangered Animals and Mammals http://www.animalinfo.org/ Endangered Animals http://library.thinkquest.org/11353/e-animals.htm/ Endangered Species Map (U.S.) http://www.endangeredspecie.com/map.htm Bagheera: An Endangered Species and Endangered Animal Web Site http://www.bagheera.com/ School World's Endangered Species Project http://www.schoolworld.asn.au/species/species.html Endangered Species (World Wildlife Fund) http://www.worldwildlife.org/endangered/index.cfm Endangered Species of the Next Millennium http://library.thinkquest.org/25014/english.index.shtml Fish and Wildlife Species http://species.fws.gov/ Endangered Species at EE Link http://eelink.net/EndSpp/ What Is the Most Serious Problem Earth Faces? WebQuest Internet Resources Links last updated 03/18/2010 For this WebQuest, you will use library and Internet resources to research your team's Earth issue. We have identified some Internet resources for each issue listed below. An * indicates that a resource is an easy-reading resource for students in grades 3-4 Water Pollution * Water Pollution Kids Page http://www.epa.gov/OWOW/NPS/kids/ * Environmental Explorers Club: Water http://www.epa.gov/kids/water.htm * Especially for Kids: Clean Water http://www.oceansidecleanwaterprogram.org/kids.asp * Water Pollution Guide http://www.water-pollution.org.uk/ Clean Water: Water Pollution http://www.chewonki.org/cleanwater/water_pollution.asp EPA Student Center: Water http://www.epa.gov/students/water.html InfoPlease: Water Pollution http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0851609.html The Quality of Our Nation's Water (EPA) http://www.epa.gov/305b/ What Is the Most Serious Problem Earth Faces? WebQuest Internet Resources Wetland Destruction Loss of Wetlands in the Southwestern United States http://geochange.er.usgs.gov/sw/impacts/hydrology/wetlands/ Once considered wastelands, wetlands were destroyed http://www.ehow.com/info_7957923_wetland-projects-school.html WHY WETLANDS DISAPPEAR http://idahoptv.org/dialogue4kids/season6/wetlands/disappear.cfm What Is the Most Serious Problem Earth Faces? WebQuest Internet Resources Global Warming What is global warming? http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215471/global_warming.htm Global Warming National Graphic http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/ Global warming facts EPA http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/kids/ What Is the Most Serious Problem Earth Faces? WebQuest Internet Resources Links last updated 03/18/2010 For this WebQuest, you will use library and Internet resources to research your team's Earth issue. We have identified some Internet resources for each issue listed below. An * indicates that a resource is an easy-reading resource for students in grades 3-4 Overflowing Landfills * Environmental Explorers Club: Garbage and Recycling http://www.epa.gov/kids/garbage.htm * The Rotten Truth About Garbage http://www.astc.org/exhibitions/rotten/rthome.htm * Trash Facts (from Keep America Beautiful) http://web.archive.org/web/20040227133904/http://www.kab.org/trashfacts.cfm Planet Protectors Create Less Waste in the First Place http://www.epa.gov/osw/education/pdfs/jellyjar.pdf Trash and Climate Change http://www.epa.gov/osw/education/pdfs/k00-001.pdf Museum of Solid Waste: Introduction to Solid Waste (pages 10-17) http://www.need.org/needpdf/Museum%20of%20Solid%20Waste%20&%20Energy.pdf Museum of Solid Waste: Landfilling (pages 38-41) http://www.need.org/needpdf/Museum%20of%20Solid%20Waste%20&%20Energy.pdf Museum of Solid Waste: Introduction to Recycling (pages 18-37) http://www.need.org/needpdf/Museum%20of%20Solid%20Waste%20&%20Energy.pdf Museum of Solid Waste http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/recycling/ Garbage: How Can My Community Reduce Solid Waste? http://www.learner.org/exhibits/garbage/intro.html Looking Into Landfills http://www.acnatsci.org/research/kye/landfills.html Brown County Landfill Kids Page: Fun Factoids http://www.browncountylandfill.com/kid.html
