Earth Day Links

Earth 911
http://earth911.com/
Earth 911 is an organization focused on empowering the public with community-specific resources to improve their quality of life. To accomplish this goal, they provide information on a wide range of environmental topics including recycling (several types of materials), household hazardous waste, water quality, composting, air pollution prevention, fire prevention, green shopping tips, and mercury pollution. Environmental news links, games and activities for kids, and local news and events are also included. Users may enter a zip code to obtain information on environmental issues specific to where they live.

Lower School

EduGreen
http://edugreen.teri.res.in/index.asp
The Energy Research Institute (TERI) from India supplies this global view of energy sources. With a slant toward protecting the environment, EduGreen is geared for classroom use, and its use of color and appealing icons makes navigation easy. Renewable, nonrenewable, and nuclear energy are explained along with energy conservation. It also provides information on biodiversity, pollution, and climatic changes and includes interactive games, quizzes, and discussion forums.

Envirofun
http://www.epa.state.il.us/kids/index.html
This site shows kids how they can protect the environment. The Earth is treated like a giant spaceship and cartoon characters are used to explain how nature recycles air, land and water. The characters use Earthship Logs to give tips about littering, oil and water pollution, tire disposal, bicycling to reduce air pollution, leaf burning and composting. The activities include quizzes, instructions on how to build a compost bin and a water cycle wheel, a litter hunt, an environmental riddle, and a word fill-in game about the hydrologic cycle.

History of Earth Day
http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/earthday/articles/index.asp?article=history&topic=0

BBC: Major warning over climate change
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4900000/newsid_4909100/4909162.stm

Zerofootprint Kids Calculator
http://www.zerofootprintkids.com/kids_home.aspx?restart=yes
"Measures the direct impact of a child's lifestyle on the planet."

EekoWorld: PBS Kids Go
http://pbskids.org/eekoworld/index.html

Tox Mystery
http://toxmystery.nlm.nih.gov
There is a section of Teacher Resources. Provides lesson plans and activity sheets.

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Upper School

The History Channel
http://www.history.com/states.do?action=state&state=Earth%20Day&parentId=earth

MSNBC: Vital Signs of Warming World
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19463513/
Lots of multimedia that explores different issues such as Coral in crisis, Ice at the melting point, wildlife and much more.

Consumer Consequences: Sustainability Coverage from American Public Media
http://sustainability.publicradio.org/consumerconsequences/consumerConsequences.html

This site is appropriate for Upper School students. It is interactive. It will tell you how many planets it would take to support your particular lifestyle and recommendations for making your footprint smaller.

Carbon Lifestyle Game
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/antenna/climatechange/CarbonLifeStyles/CarbonLifeStyles.html
May be good for younger students as well.

ElectroCity
http://www.electrocity.co.nz
This is a game that teaches about energy, sustainability, and environmental management in New Zealand.

Global Footprint Network
http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/calculators/
How much land area does it take to support your lifestyle? Take this quiz to find out your Ecological Footprint, discover your biggest areas of resource consumption, and learn what you can do to tread more lightly on the earth.

National Geographic: The Green Guide
http://www.thegreenguide.com
Information on how to personally change your actions to have a positive effect on the environment.

Powerhouse Museum
http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/education/ecologic/games.htm
Contains two interactive programs: Bigfoot, an ecological footprint calculator and Ecotown, which shows the use of sustainability indicators at a community level.