Geographypods
Geographypods: Patterns in Environmental Quality and Sustainability
This collection of five learning modules looks at issues related to environmental change and sustainability. Topics addressed include changes in the atmosphere, soil, water, and biodiversity, and what can be done to counteract this and...
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Healthy Computing
A wealth of well-organized information about computer-related health and ergonomics, such as proper posture, keyboard positioning, monitor placement, eye fatigue, and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Plenty of practical tips for creating a safe...
National Institutes of Health
Niehs: Kids Environment Kids Health: Healthy Living
Learn five easy steps to be healthy and live a healthy life.
PBS
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...
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Garden Club of America: Good Gardening Practices to Protect Your Environment
An information sheet on how to protect the environment while growing a garden. Can be downloaded as a PDF document.
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Bright Horizons: How Unstructured Play Can Encourage Healthy Risk Taking
Discover how unstructured play can help your child understand and develop healthy risk-taking skills. This article gives ideas on how to create risk-taking opportunities in a preschool environment.
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Union of Concerned Scientists: Science for a Healthy Planet and Safer World
The official website for Union of Concerned Scientists provides information on environmental issues and suggestions on actions people can take to curb environmental harm.
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West Virginia University Extension Service: Overgrazing Can Hurt Environment
This short article describes problems associated with improper farm management with regard to livestock overgrazing. Includes grazing management guidelines for healthy and productive pastures.
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Best Foot Forward: Ecological Footprint Calculator
Measure your ecological footprint, and see how many land and resources you use in your everyday life. Find out how your choices affect the natural world, and then find ways to make changes in your lifestyle to help the environment.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Kindness in the Classroom
Kindness in the Classroom is a multi-part video series designed to give educators insight into the positive impacts of teaching mindfulness in a classroom setting. The series focuses on implementing the Kindness Curriculum; a free...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Creating a Caring Classroom Community
Help early learners build healthy social and emotional skills with this special collection on promoting kindness, being just, and creating a caring classroom community! These activities, videos, tips, articles, and guides offer...
American Institute of Biological Sciences
Action Bioscience: The Value of Healthy Estuaries
An article featuring the complexity of estuaries which highlight the value these systems have to human and wild life.
PBS
Pbs: American Experience: Earth Days: Timeline:the Modern Environmental Movement
Trace the advance of the environmental movement from 1948 through the 1980s. Read about the legislation promoting a healthy environment passed under both Democratic and Republican presidents.
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Environmental Health at Usaid
The Environmental Health Project is dedicated to making a healthy environment for everyone. Links to many publications and services.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Printable Lesson: Litterbug Clean Up!
In this printable lesson, children will learn about the environment by going outdoors and picking up litter. Use this printable lesson, video clips, science notebook pages, and support materials from the PBS KIDS show Elinor Wonders Why...
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Learn the Issues: Green Living
This site provides real-world issues as well as the scientific research and technology used to support the EPA's mission to protect human health and safeguard the natural environment.
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Arkansas Department of Health
The government health site for the state of Arkansas. Includes hometown health, your environment, data & research, etc.
American Institute of Biological Sciences
Action Bioscience: Ecosystem Services: A Primer
It is humans' responsibility to take care of the Earth's many ecosystems. Many of the daily things we take for granted - e.g., clean water and air, pest control, and protection from severe weather - are results of healthy ecosystems....
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Aquatic Wildlife and Pollution
This lesson plan is designed to teach young children about healthy and hazardous marine and freshwater environments and be able to describe the effects of the pollution of plastics on wildlife.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: What Is in the Pond?
This is a scientific investigation where students establish what macro-invertebrates live in a local water habitat (stream, pond, aquarium), and predict how healthy the water is. They then test the water quality, record the data, and...
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Be the Change: Our Earth What a Waste?
Read about how the people of Wisconsin are recycling much of their waste and how this is helping the environment.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Engineering and the Human Body
The Engineering and the Human Body unit covers the broad spectrum of topics that make up our very amazing human body. Students are introduced to the space environment and learn the major differences between the environment on Earth and...
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Delaware Nature Society
This is the Delaware Nature Society website who envisions a healthy and sustainable environment. Their mission is to connect people with the natural world to improve our environment through education, advocacy, and conservation.
National Institutes of Health
Niehs: Kids' Pages: How Mother Bear Taught the Children About Lead
This set of four online stories, with related fun activities and games, teaches about the dangers of lead. Young children will learn to be aware of health hazards in the environment so they can grow up to be healthy and strong. Includes...