American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Plant an Ozone Monitoring Garden
Young scholars monitor local ozone by looking in their neighborhoods for ozone-injured plants or establishing similar gardens outside their schools or in their backyards.
University of Wisconsin
The Why Files: What to Do With Trash?
Explore the pros and cons of placing trash in landfills or incinerating it.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: It's Really Heating Up in Here!
Students create and observe a greenhouse effect model and discuss the implications of global warming theory for engineers, themselves and the Earth.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: The No Zone of Ozone
Students explore the causes and effects of the Earth's ozone holes through discussion and an interactive simulation. In an associated literacy activity, students learn how to tell a story in order to make a complex topic (such as global...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Composition of the Atmosphere
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the gases that the atmosphere is made out of.
Other
Wards Auto: Auto Maker Fuel Economy, Emissions Improvements on Track
Discusses where the automotive industry was at in 2013 in addressing the problem of carbon dioxide emissions. Smaller car manufacturers face more stringent rules than larger models, while auto makers with lower sales volumes have...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Reducing Ozone Destruction
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How banning CFCs helped protect the ozone layer.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Biogeochemical Cycles
The ways in which an element or compound such as water moves between its various living and nonliving forms and locations in the biosphere is called a biogeochemical cycle. All of the atoms that are building blocks of living things are a...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Acid Rain Study Guide
Understand the make-up of and effects of acid rain.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Science Explorations: Kids' Environment Report Card
Cast your vote on the important environmental issues. Associated with each issue, there are at least three links to sites which can further your understanding of the issue. To encourage others to respect the environment, you can also...
Energy for Sustainable Development
Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Energy Facts
A collection of facts about energy use broken down into various topic areas, e.g., health impact of fossil fuels, transportation, energy consumption, alternative energies, etc.
Other
Rocky Mountain Institute: Climate Protection for Fun & Profit [Pdf]
The first article in this newsletter talks about a speech made by Former President Bill Clinton and his stance on the environment. (Published 1997)
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Learn: The Greenhouse Effect
A detailed overview of the greenhouse effect, with explanations about Earth's atmosphere gases referred to as greenhouse gases, and the factors that influence the heat-trapping ability of a greenhouse. All information is reinforced...
Other
Alliance to Save Energy: Educator Lesson Plans
A series of teacher lesson plans for various grade levels. Topics pertain to insulation (among other things) and other energy conservation and energy efficiency topics. Can be easily adapted for a student project or lab investigation.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Natural Resources Study Guide
Understand what natural resources are, and how important they are to Earth.
Other
Reducing Climate Change Emissions From Motor Vehicles [Pdf]
This site highlights new legislation in California which is designed to create new regulations that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions produced by cars and trucks. The background to this proposal gives a summary of the manner in which...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Weather Systems: Lesson 2
This lesson will discuss the effects of the weather on living things. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Weather Systems."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Weather Systems: Lesson 3
This lesson will discuss the effects of the weather on living things. It is 3 of 3 in the series titled "Weather Systems."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Weather Systems: Lesson 1
This lesson will discuss the effects of the weather on living things. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Weather Systems."
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: The Planet Protectors: Activities for Kids
Through this EPA resource, explore your environment and discover the animals, plants, air, and water around you. Learn how to protect the world we live in with fun games.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Acid Rain and How It Affects Our Environment
In this lesson plan the teacher uses sulfuric acid with stones, leaves, and raw fish to demonstrate the effects of acid rain on the environment. Students create an environmental mural.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: The Effect of Acid Rain on Seed Growth
A lab activity that takes place over a few weeks, where students first determine the pH of different solutions, then choose three that are acidic. They set up petri dishes with radish seeds and hydrate them with the different solutions...
Science4Fun
Science4 Fun: Global Warming
This resource discusses the causes and effects of global warming.
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