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GENERAL
RESOURCES
The Earth
Day Network compiles a "a comprehensive list of Earth
Day events [for the current year], regardless of size, geographic
location or organizational affiliation." The site includes
the history of Earth Day, an organizer's guide, and a searchable
calendar of events; almost all in the United States but some are
listed for other countries as well. Educators can join the Educators
Network to access "user-friendly tools for integrating
environmental issues into core curriculum subjects and provides
games and other fun activities for kids."
EE-Link,
Environmental Education on the Internet, is a resource "designed
to support 'students, teachers and professionals that support
K-12 environmental education, such as media specialists, inservice
providers, nature center staff and curriculum developers.' The
site contains Internet environmental based school projects, classroom
activities including many lesson plans, environmental facts and
data from many sources, curriculum directory guides, organization
and audio visual catalogs, software, conference and workshop announcements,
higher education links, facts, grants, literature pointers, regional
information, and pointers to other environmental sites."
The
Earth
Day Canada site is another terrific resource site for
students and educators. The award-winning site features a multitude
of links and activities that will serve as great resources for
teachers and students. The Ecokids
section in particular "is an innovative, interactive environmental
web site for children, their families, and educators in Canada
and around the world." PlanetPals
also features appropriate information about Earth that is appropriate
for younger students.
Another resource,
Maggie's
Earth Adventures provides free online lessons, animated
stories
and games for primary and intermediate elementary school teachers
and students. Vaious stories and activities introduce students
to environmental issues and motivate students to delve deeper
into the issues presented.
GAMES
& ACTIVITIES
Squigly's
Playhouse features
a number of interesting activities that will help younger students
celebrate Earth Day. Students
all ages will no doubt enjoy Earth-Day related online games. They
can help the Lorax collect seeds and plant trees at the Seusville
site (requires Shockwave); play Earthday Games and read
Earth-related stories at Primary
Games; and, access other games from various other sites
using the links below:
- Online
Earthday Hangman
- Earthday
Tic Tac Toe
- Earth's
Land: 40 Games, Puzzles, Quizzes, Trivia
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Students will be
able to create a 3-D model that shows what a journey to the middle
of the Earth would look like when they access, print, cut, and
construct this paper project from Canon.
Print a beautifully
bordered writing paper with a rain-
forest theme from abcteach.
Your students will be inspired to write up their own rainforest
reports, coloring in the borders for tropical flair.
Students will learn
about the different rainforest strata when you label and color
printouts from Enchanted
Learning.
Print some Earth
Day bookmarks from Primary
Games that students can use as they research Earth Day
related topics in the library.
LINKS
TIED
TO THE CURRICULUM
You will find a
number of Earth Day vocabulary enriching links when you visit
Vocabulary
University. Flesch-Kincaid reading level indicated the
worksheets were appropriate for older students, but some of the
activities might serve as enrichment for younger students.
Students will hone
critical thinking skills when they work on a webquest: What
is the Most Serious Problem Facing Earth? "In this
special Earth Day WebQuest, student teams vie for funding from
the fictional Help Our World (HOW) Foundation. Each team builds
a case for a critical environmental concern. Which threat is the
most critical? Which team should be awarded the foundation's $1
million grant?"
How about focusing
on the endangered animals that occupy our great Earth? Education
World has posted five lesson plans "that put the
diversity of rare plants and animals to work in lessons that will
tame the most ferocious of five- to fifteen-year-olds."
FAST
FACTS
- America's
Roof, Highest Points of Each State
- Highest
and Lowest Places on the Earth
- Color
Landform Maps of the World
- Natural
Wonders of the World
- Highest
Mountain Peaks
- Introduction
to the Earth
- Exploring
the Planets: Earth Facts
- PlanetPals:
Earth Fast Facts
- Inside
the Earth
- Nine
Planets: Earth
- 101
Amazing Earth Facts
- Earth
Speeds
- Earthforces
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