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Population Education: Homepage
Population Education provides teacher training and a variety of teacher tools to help educators on population concepts such as population growth, overpopulation, our effect on the environment, and related resources.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Cold Room? Heat It Up With a Homemade Solar Air Heater
Humans need food, water, and warm shelter to survive. But a lot of humans depend on fossil fuels to supply gas and electricity to heat our homes. But burning fossil fuels to create energy is harmful to the environment. In this science...
American Institute of Biological Sciences
Action Bioscience: Bringing Coastal Dead Zones Back to Life
Increased amounts of nitrogen and phosphorous are leading to "dead" areas on our coastlines. Delve into the details and how to get involved with stopping this from happening.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Biodomes
Students explore the biosphere's environments and ecosystems, learning along the way about the plants, animals, resources and natural cycles of our planet. Over the course of lessons 2-6, students use their growing understanding of...
National Institutes of Health
Nih: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - Three great ways YOU can eliminate waste and protect your environment!Waste, and how we choose to handle it, affects our world's environment-that's YOUR environment. The environment is everything around you...
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Sierra Club
Find factsheets and other information on clean water, commercial logging, urban sprawl, wildlands, and other environmental priorities, as well as review the environmental records of politicians, get involved, and much more.
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Natural History Magazine, Inc: Natural History Magazine
The natural history of our planet and universe are addressed in this on-line version of Natural History Magazine. Topics are widely varied yet current and topical, with photos & illustrations included.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Oil Spill
This lesson will allow learners to explore an important role of environmental engineers: cleaning the environment. Students will learn details about the Exxon Valdez oil spill, which was one of the most publicized and studied...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: River Flow Rate
In this activity, students utilize their understanding and feel for flow rate from the Faucet Flow Rate activity to estimate the flow rate in a local river. The objective is for students to relate laboratory experiment results to the...
National Geographic Kids
National Geographic Kids: Green Tips: Conserve Resources
Here are some quick tips to help you conserve our natural resources. Make sure you check the related content on the right side of the page.
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: Apatosaurus (Brontosaurus) Sketch
This sketch shows what an Apatosaurus (also known a Brontosaurus) might have looked like living in its environment during the Jurassic Period, around 150 million years ago. The illustration shows the Apatosaurus and two smaller dinosaurs...