Earth & Environmental
Zero Footprint Kids Featured
This site allows students to calculate their ecological footprint by completing an online quiz. The quiz has has five categories of questions - transportation, what you eat, home and school, what you use and what you throw away. At the end of the quiz ...
EPA Climate Change Kids Featured
EPA Climate Change Kids Page: The kids page focuses on the science and impacts of global warming or climate change, and on actions that help address climate change issues. It is designed as a resource for both students and teachers. The site also features ...
Earth Day Teachers Network Featured
Environmental education and activities for students. Teachers can search lesson plans on energy efficiency and renewable energy for grades K-12 and find local Earth Day events (United States only). Also contains environmental fact sheets, tips on ...
WALDEN: The Ballad of Thoreau
A two act, one set, four character play about the last days spent by Henry David Thoreau at his cabin before leaving Walden Pond. While the play can be performed at any time, the site encourages teachers to consider using it as an Earth Day event. Why? - ...
Geology.com
Geology and Earth Science current events, news, articles, dictionary, satellite images, career information, reference maps, and more.
EekoWorld (Environmental Education for K...
EekoWorld (Environmental Education for Kids Online) is an engaging web site designed to help students between the ages of 6 and 9 learn about the important role they can play in taking care of the earth. The site introduces students to the basic element ...
Schools for a Living Planet (WWF)
A Canadian based site, Schools for a Living Planet is designed to help teachers give their students the knowledge they need to make a difference in our planet’s future. Access curriculum-linked, printable in-class activities for grades 3-8. Units include ...
Exploring the Environment (ETE)
The ETE website has a number of interdisciplinary, problem-based learning modules for high school students. The project engages student teams in addressing real-world problems related to global warming, land use patterns, weather, biodiversity, volcanoes ...
Windward Outsmart the Weather in a Race ...
This online, interactive game students about weather as they sail in a virtual race around the world. The game features a series of challenges and decisions that must be made to circumnavigate the globe. Players learn how to sail, how to read weather map ...
Edheads - Activate Your Mind (Science Ac...
Edheads is a non-profit organization that provides free high quality educational activities on the Web at no cost to students or teachers. Edheads creates unique, educational Web experiences designed to make hard-to-teach concepts understandable. Featur ...
Digital Library for Earth System Educati...
Educational resources searchable by grade, resource type and curriculum standard (NSES or National Geography). Follow the For Educators to find the K-12 resources area. This area focuses on needs of K-12 educators and includes collections specifically d ...
National Geographic Forces of Nature
Students can learn about and then create their own earthquake, hurricane, tornado or volcanic eruption. Also includes maps showing hotspots, interactive animations, case studies and film footage.
Discovering Antarctica
Interactive teaching and learning resources on Antarctica. Includes teaching resources linked to the National Curriculum for England.
Online Game on Sustainable Use of Resour...
The virtual fishing game at the Cloud Institute For Sustainability Education website does a nice job illustrating that maximizing short run profits (i.e. by overfishing) leads to long term problems (i.e. no fish!). Students earn money for each fish they ...
Think Green
Think Green is an interactive website to provide information for teachers, students and others about waste management. The site gives information on landfill gas to energy, waste to energy, recycling and beneficial land reuse. ThinkGr ...
EcoKids
The EcoKids web site is an interactive environmental web site for children and educators in Canada and around the world. EcoKids is a free, environmental education program that offers curriculum-linked materials and activities for elementary schools to en ...
Astrophysics Science Project Integrating...
The ASPIRE website has interactive online science lessons and labs that can be used by teachers in the classroom with their students. The lessons have been written by teachers while working with research scientists from the High Re ...
Earth Science Image Bank
Earth Science World Image Bank is a excellent resource for students doing science projects. Provided free of charge for classroom use, the image bank has more than 6,000 quality earth science images.