- What is the air quality like where you live? How does it compare to states across the country from you? Check out how the air is in other parts of the United States.
- Read facts about air pollution and try out these cool games about air quality with what you have learned.
- Keep in mind the sun's intensity in the sky during different seasons, the direction the house faces and the materials you use to build. These all play a major role in how comfortable your house is!
- What type of volcano would you make if you could? Try making different sizes of eruptions and learn about different volcanoes.
- Do you know all the main types of trash that can be recycled? Check it out with this activity.
- Learn more about oceans, how trash gets there, how it harms ocean and our life, and how we can prevent it.
- This is an interactive site will help you learn how the water cycle works. The water cycle impacts us every day.
- Learn about the problems and solution of excess waste. You can help the problem!
- Locate hazards to water use, air pollution, and sun exposure, then build your own environmentally friendly town.
- Find out all about acid rain and see what happens to a lake when factory chemicals start harming it.
- It is important to learn about preserving different types of habitats. Use different materials and plants to create the best habitat you can.
- Do you know what climatology is? Test your knowledge with this quiz.
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Investigate the animal kingdom! See pictures, learn some fun facts, watch videos and print postcards! There's a lot to know about animals and inventors can find a lot of inspiration from them.
Did you know? Dolphins and other animals have always used sound waves for navigation, or finding their way around when they can't see. This animal technology inspired the human invention SONAR (sound navigation and ranging).
The first patent involving this technology was awarded in 1913, one year after the Titanic disaster. SONAR is used today on ships and submarines.
Learn more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonar
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Use northern organisms and forest organisms to try to create a food chain. You’ll learn how the entire food chain is affected by the loss of one link and how it forms a chain reaction.
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Endangered species, air pollution, clean water… No matter what your favorite environmental cause is, help make change by sending a letter to a local or national politician, even the president! They love hearing from kids… seriously, they’ve had it with adults almost as much as you.
- Find out how scientists determine the age of trees. When you’re done, you can make a tree study of your own.
- Help run the Puddlestown recycling plant by sorting materials into recycling bins and keeping the plant organized.
