Lin and Don Donn
Lin and Don Donn: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Lesson Plans
This personal site provides lesson and unit ideas for teaching students about recycling. There are links to other pages as well as great ways to integrate this earth conscious model into the classroom.
University of Arizona
University of Arizona: Pulse: Striding Into the Future: Clinical Trials
An interdisciplinary unit teaching the topic of scientific research performed on human subjects for a skin cancer study. The physics principles behind imaging techniques, the biological implications of UV radiation on the skin, the...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Environment and Health Study Guide
This comprehensive study guide covers the main terms and concepts needed for a unit on health and the environment.
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Important Issues
This official site for the EPA describes the issues of the day. Learn about topics such as water, air, climate, wastes and pollution, green living, and more. Find important ways that you can get involved in protecting the environment.
Better Planet Productions
Earth Care: The Abandoned Mine [Pdf]
For this mini-unit, students will research urban waste disposal issues, and investigate the practicality and environmental impact of using an abandoned mine as a landfill.
Other
Epa: Today's Aqi Forecast
An interactive map used to find the current and forecasted air quality index for any location in the United States.
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Recycle City
This interactive site allows students to implement recycling programs to transform "Dumptown" into "Recycle City". To make this simulation realistic, students must implement the programs within a budget.
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Mississippi River / Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Task Force
Learn about the task force formed to help the public understand the causes and effects of eutrophication in the Gulf of Mexico.
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Great Lakes
The EPA profiles the Great Lakes ecosystem, their ecological protection and restoration, wetlands, shorelands, pollution prevention, and so on. Click "Visualizing the Great Lakes" for pictures of the lake environment.
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Ground Water and Drinking Water
Learn about the safety of drinking water, find information on agencies that oversee our water, and gain access to the current drinking water standards and regulations.
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Acid Rain: Students Site
Use this student portal to understand all you can about acid rain and its harmful effects. Modules for interactive games, stories, puzzles, vocabulary terms and links to other activities and experiments.
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Asbestos
Information about everything to do with asbestos. Learn what it is, where it can be found, the health impact of exposure, how to protect yourself, federal requirements for buildings and removal, cleanup sites, and how to become an...
Other
North Dakota Department of Health
This resource includes the state health officer, local public health units, environmental health, etc.
Other
Noise Pollution Clearinghouse: Protective Noise Levels
Condensed and less technical document by the Environmental Protection Agency covering noise pollution in the United States.
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Surf Your Watershed
This resource provides information on watersheds, maps, activities, and links to local watershed information.
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Mercury in Your Environment
Students learn what the forms of mercury are, the sources, how to reduce the releases, and how it affects humans and the environment.
State Library of North Carolina
N Cpedia: Pocosins
Pocosins are naturally occurring freshwater evergreen shrub bogs or wetlands of the southeastern coastal plains. In 1962 pocosins still covered nearly 2.25 million acres in North Carolina-accounting for almost three-quarters of the...
Curated OER
Noise Pollution Clearinghouse: Protective Noise Levels
Condensed and less technical document by the Environmental Protection Agency covering noise pollution in the United States
Curated OER
Noise Pollution Clearinghouse: Protective Noise Levels
Condensed and less technical document by the Environmental Protection Agency covering noise pollution in the United States
Curated OER
Noise Pollution Clearinghouse: Protective Noise Levels
Condensed and less technical document by the Environmental Protection Agency covering noise pollution in the United States
Curated OER
Noise Pollution Clearinghouse: Protective Noise Levels
Condensed and less technical document by the Environmental Protection Agency covering noise pollution in the United States
Curated OER
Noise Pollution Clearinghouse: Protective Noise Levels
Condensed and less technical document by the Environmental Protection Agency covering noise pollution in the United States
Curated OER
Noise Pollution Clearinghouse: Protective Noise Levels
Condensed and less technical document by the Environmental Protection Agency covering noise pollution in the United States
Curated OER
Noise Pollution Clearinghouse: Protective Noise Levels
Condensed and less technical document by the Environmental Protection Agency covering noise pollution in the United States