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Ask NSDL
 | Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Classroom Materials - Database - Web site |
| Summary: The Virtual Reference Desk Presents Ask an Expert with opportunities to ask questions on many science topics as well as math, education, engineering, health, social studies and technology. They also offer a link for Earth Day Resources. |
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Biosphere in a Bottle
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: Classroom Games and Activities - Classroom Lessons |
| Summary: Directions for creating a small habitat in a bottle. |
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Clean Green Healthy Schools: An Environmental Health and Safety Activities Book for Teachers and Students (March 2003)
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Manual/Handbook |
| Summary: The goal of the Clean,Green and Healthy Schools Manual is to protect students and the school community's health and safety on campus and in the home. Every student has the right to attend a school whose environment, staff and training protects and nurtures ph... |
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Contaminated Water, What's Up in the Environment
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials |
| Summary: What's Up in the Environment projects are intended primarily for middle school students, but can be modified. They begin with an extensive description of the project’s objectives, standards, time and materials needed, computer requirements, and lists of on-lin... |
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Drinking Water and Ground Water Kids' Stuff
| Grade Level: Pre-K thru Kindergarten - Elementary - Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials - Web site |
| Summary: EPA's Office of Water has added to its website new pages designed just for children, featuring a new mascot-like character called "Thirstin." The new pages contain games, activities and narrated/animated classroom experiments. Some of the activities include an... |
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Earth Science Glossary
Earthwater Products
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Article/Report - Classroom Materials - School Projects |
| Summary: Basic stencils are provided (including Spanish stencils), custom stencils and specialized, unique stencils. Earthwater Products is a not-for-profit organization who's mission is to foster public awareness of, involvement in, and support for stormwater polluti... |
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Environment, The, Saving the Planet
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: BiblioResources (Books) - Classroom Materials - School Projects |
| Summary: Non-fiction
AuthorRosie Harlow and Sally Morgan. ISBN0-7534-5426-2 AbstractFour sections, Energy and Power, Nature in Danger, Pollution and Waste, and Garbage and Recycling, are supported by brief introductions (2 pages each) to sp... |
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ERTV Web Site
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High - High School - Post-Secondary |
| Type: Powerpoints, videos and virtual tours - Web site |
| Summary: Environmental Response Television provides video programs of environmental events. They have an extensive list of videos including the Mercury Video News Release. They also produce "The Environmental Response News Magazine" which is a quarterly program that... |
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Games for Change (G4C)
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Web site |
| Summary: Games for Change (G4C) provides support, visibility and shared resources to organizations and individuals using digital games for social change. Includes several online games related to ecosystems and the environment. |
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Gateway Area Storm Sewer Stenciling PRoject
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School - Post-Secondary |
| Type: Article/Report - Case Study - Checklist - School Projects |
| Summary: This project serves as a model for creating a storm sewer stenciling project. Content includes "how to conduct a stenciling program, organizing a stenciling project in your town," and an "activity guide for the classroom K-12." Organization includes stenciling... |
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GeoMan's Glossary of Earth Science Terms
GLIN Glossary Information Network
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Glossary |
| Summary: This glossary is appropriate for elementary through high school students, and is continually expanded. The terms address Great Lakes topics (environment, history, geography, pollution, and careers. They include scientific terms and acronyms. |
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Great Lakes--Make the Human Health Connection
| Grade Level: High School |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials |
| Summary: Environmental Health Perspectives online lessons have a new addition that focuses on the Great Lakes’ environmental problems. This is designed for grades 10-12. As a reminder, EHP lessons are built around real issues and news articles and the article link is p... |
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Green Squad, Kids taking action for greener, healthier schools
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: Checklist - Classroom Games and Activities - Fact sheet - Language Options - Web site |
| Summary: An interactive tool for students that helps them understand their school their health and the environment and aids them in discovering what they might be able to do to improve the school environment.Interactive tools allow them to explore various rooms but the... |
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Guide to Storm Drain Marking
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School - Post-Secondary |
| Type: Checklist - Manual/Handbook |
| Summary: This is a manual and how-to guide for municipalities interested in starting a storm drain marking program to reduce nonpoint source pollution. This is also a valuable resource for school districts and volunteer community groups who wish to implement a storm dr... |
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How to Stencil Storm Drains
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Classroom Materials - Fact sheet - List |
| Summary: A two-page PDF on how to stencil storm drains, from getting permission to the event day. |
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Major Environmental Laws
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School - Post-Secondary |
| Type: Article/Report - List - Web site |
| Summary: US EPA Region 5 provides a list of environmental laws including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act, and the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act. Other major environmental laws are offered and are complete with history, a... |
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Pontiac Storm Sewer Stencil Program
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Case Study - Powerpoints, videos and virtual tours - School Projects |
| Summary: Teacher Paul Ritter (Pontiac High School, Pontiac, Illinois) conducts a school-based, community-wide storm sewer stencil program that can serve as a model for other communities. This 34-slide power point presentation offers suggestions for starting your own. |
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Rain Garden Applications and Simple Calculations Power Point
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Article/Report - Powerpoints, videos and virtual tours - School Projects |
| Summary: This 16-slide power point presentation shows examples of rain gardens in communities and on residential property as well as some construction and calculations for planning a garden. |
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Rain Gardens Gardening with Water Quality in Mind
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: School Projects |
| Summary: All about Rain Gardening including recent articles, suggested plants,and design considerations. |
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Soil Pollution
| Grade Level: High School - Post-Secondary |
| Type: Powerpoints, videos and virtual tours |
| Summary: A powerpoint presentation from the University of Minnesota provides an overview of pollution issues. The photos are not the best quality, however, the information combined with the photos will introduce high school students to factors contributing to soil pol... |
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Storm Drain Marking Manual
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School - Post-Secondary |
| Type: Article/Report - Checklist - Fact sheet - Manual/Handbook |
| Summary: This 16-page PDF manual provides an introduction, marking methods, the planning process, education, day of the event (and after the event as well as sources for marking supplies and instructions on cleaning the supplies. |
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Storm Drain Stenciling
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School - Post-Secondary |
| Type: Case Study - School Projects |
| Summary: This is an exampe of a stenciling project in the DuPage County area (Illinois) that used volunteers and students from local schools. |
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Stormwater Outreach Materials and Reference Documents
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Article/Report - Classroom Materials - Powerpoints, videos and virtual tours - School Projects |
| Summary: Protecting urban water and addressing some key water pollutions issues gets easier with these outreach materials and reference documents from US EPA that includes the stormwater stickers for kids, door hangers, posters, bookmarks, and placemats. These can be u... |
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Surf Your Watershed
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Classroom Materials - List - Web site |
| Summary: Watersheds are those land areas that catch rain or snow and drain to specific marshes, streams, rivers, lakes, or to ground water. Choose from the options they provide to Locate Your Watershed. You can search by clicking on your state, use USGS's geographic n... |
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Thirteen Ed Online (What's Up in the Environment)
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials - Glossary - Web site |
| Summary: This website is made available in part by a PBS affiliate, WNET in New York. Categories include water, land, air, energy and each category has web site resources, print material and "on-air" resources. They offer careeer information, hot topics, class project... |
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Water Cycle in 36 languages
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High - High School - Post-Secondary |
| Type: Fact sheet - Language Options - Web site |
| Summary: Not your everyday watercycle, this is complete with diagram and discussion topics/fact sheets on 15 topics (condensation, groundwater, precipitation, evaporation, surface runoff and more). The diagram is complete in 36 languages including Slovakian, Thai, Tam... |
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Water Science Glossary of Terms
Water Words Dictionary
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School - Post-Secondary |
| Type: Glossary |
| Summary: This compilation of technical water, water quality, environmental and water related terms is large. For example the A's alone are a 21-page PDF. |
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Watersheds: What's Up in the Environment
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials - Glossary |
| Summary: What's Up in the Environment projects are intended primarily for middle school students, but can be modified. They begin with an extensive description of the project’s objectives, standards, time and materials needed, computer requirements, and lists of on-lin... |
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Wetlands: What's Up in the Environment
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials - Glossary |
| Summary: What's Up in the Environment projects are intended primarily for middle school students, but can be modified. They begin with an extensive description of the project’s objectives, standards, time and materials needed, computer requirements, and lists of on-lin... |
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World Water Day
Help Desk Questions
| Can you recommend any on-line activities/web pages/web quests dealing with water erosion for 4th and 5th grade students?
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