Green Education Network Chairman and CEO Gregory Hilbert begs all to sign worldwide AVAAZ.org petition even long after the Copenhagen failure he predicts, to tell posterity we were not among those now forsaking the untold millions who will suffer horrors in consequence of that failure.
Environmental Science Lesson & Experiment Activity
Click Here to Download PDF of Lesson Plan and Experiment Activity for Grades 5-8. Click here to Download PDF Version for High School and College
DIG IT! You’re Environmental Scientists! Here’s Your Project
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The Problem: Every year U.S. grocery and other retail stores spend $4,000,000,000 ($4 Billion) to put our purchases in over [...]
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The Global Greenhouse Gas meter on Green Education Network shows the total amount of greenhouse gases  in planet earth’s atmosphere in metric tons, now over 3.64 trillion, and increasing at a rate of 2 billion per month.
The number is based on measurements developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and includes all the long-lasting greenhouse [...]
The DOE Energy Information Agency’s Energy Kids Page is actually many outstanding pages of energy facts, history, fun and games, quizzes, puzzles, and classroom activities, complete with glossary and a downloadable PDF Teacher’s Guide with cross-curricular lesson plans for integration of Math, Language Arts, and Performing Arts. Because the foregoing go to the heart of [...]
Conservation International: “We believe that the Earth’s natural heritage must be maintained if future generations are to thrive spiritually, culturally, and economically. Our mission is to conserve the Earth’s living heritage – our global biodiversity – and to demonstrate that human societies are able to live harmoniously with nature.”  Click Here to Visit the Conservation [...]
You’ll find a wide variety of animal life in or around fresh water ecosystems…aquatic birds… amphiphians..mammals and of course, a wide variety of fish. And the water cycle is very important to fresh water ecosystems.
Click below to go to the website hosted by the Missouri Botanical Garden to learn more about each of the [...]
Grasslands are found on every continent except Antarctica. Click here to learn about them and their plants and wildlife at a great website hosted by the Missouri Botanical Garden
(At right) The Konza tallgrass prairie in the Flint Hills of northeastern Kansas.
Photo Credit  Wikipedia,  Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, [...]
The Temperate Deciduous Forest biome has four seasons of winter, spring, summer, and fall. Animals and plants have special adaptations to cope with these yearly changes. Click here to Learn All About It at a great website hosted by the Missouri Botanical Garden
Photo Credit Wikipedia  Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 51 Franklin St, [...]
The hot desert is a land of extremes: extreme heat and extreme dryness; sudden flash floods and cold nights. Because deserts are such a harsh environment, deserts often have names likes “Death Valley,” “the empty quarter,” and “the place from where there is no return.” That makes the plants and animals of the desert biome [...]
The Taiga biome stretches across a large portion of Canada, Europe and Asia. It is the largest biome in the world. Winters are cold. Summers are warm. Lots of conifers grow here. Click here to Learn More at the wonderful website hosted by the Missouri Botanical Garden
The tundra biome is at the top of the world — around the North Pole! Below a thin layer of tundra soil is its permafrost, a permanently frozen layer of ground. During the brief summers, the top section of the soil may thaw just long enough to allow plants and microorganisms to grow and reproduce. [...]
Middle School, High School, College, All Adults… We Can Turn the Tide on Global Deforestation. See Let’s Replant the Rainforests below this info for K-6
K-6: Did you know there are two types of Rainforest — the temperate and the tropical? Tropical rainforests are found close to the equator. Temperate rainforests are found along coasts in the [...]
10 VIDEOS for K-8 Environmental Education
A One Planet Life, a short environmental video suitable for all audiences.
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Sam Suds & the Case of PVC: The Poison Plastic – a short video about PVCs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpmE_b90XTU&feature=user
Grocery Store Wars (a short video about genetically-modified vs. organic foods)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVrIyEu6h_E
The Meatrix (a short video about factory farming/confined feedlot operations)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEkc70ztOrc
Mr. W (a short video [...]
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Eco Kids Online http://www.ecokids.ca
Discover cool things about science and nature, wildlife, environmental issues and more through games and activities.
Environmental Education for Kids! (EEK!)http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/eek/
Lots of information and ideas about the earth, animals, and other neat stuff including what kinds of jobs are available for people interested in the environment.Â
FEMA for Kids http://www.fema.gov/kids/
The Federal [...]
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Environmental Basics: Climate Change or Global WarmingÂ
The term climate change is often used interchangeably with the term global warming, but according to the National Academy of Sciences, “the phrase ‘climate change’ is growing in preferred use to ‘global warming’ because it helps convey that there are [other] changes in addition to rising temperatures.”
Climate change [...]
At right is a famous picture of the real planet we live on, Earth. Do you see the clouds? A NASA astronaut took the picture from space. At left is a globe. A globe is a small model of earth. It shows countries in different colors. Do you have a globe in your classroom or school [...]
Click Here to Play the Wild Weather Adventure game at the NASA website. Your weather research blimp will explore Earth and its weather. With luck, skill, and strategy, you will race other weather research blimps to be first to travel all the way around the world and win the game. You can play with your [...]
The oxygen cycle is the biogeochemical cycle that describes the movement of oxygen within and between its three main reservoirs: the atmosphere (air), the biosphere (living things), and the lithosphere (Earth’s crust). The main driving factor of the oxygen cycle is photosynthesis, which is responsible for the modern Earth’s atmosphere and life.
Reservoirs of Oxygen
By far [...]
Schematic representation of the flow of Nitrogen through the environment. The importance of bacteria in the cycle is immediately recognized as being a key element in the cycle, providing different forms of nitrogen compounds assimilable by higher organisms.
The nitrogen cycle is the biogeochemical cycle that describes the transformations of nitrogen and nitrogen-containing compounds in [...]
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Diagram of the carbon cycle. The black numbers indicate how much carbon is stored in various reservoirs, in billions of tons (”GtC” stands for GigaTons of Carbon and figures are circa 2004). The purple numbers indicate how much carbon moves between reservoirs each year. The sediments, as defined in this diagram, do not include the [...]
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Rain is liquid precipitation. On Earth, it is the condensation of atmospheric water vapor into drops heavy enough to fall, often making it to the surface. Rain is the primary source of fresh water for most areas of the world, providing suitable conditions for diverse ecosystems, as well as water for hydroelectric power plants and [...]
An ocean (from Greek, Okeanos (Oceanus)) is a major body of saline water, and a principal component of the hydrosphere. Approximately 72% of the Earth’s surface (an area of some 361 million square kilometers) is covered by ocean, a continuous body of water that is customarily divided into several principal oceans and smaller seas. More [...]
Peak oil is the point in time when the maximum rate of global petroleum extraction is reached, after which the rate of production enters terminal decline. The concept is based on the observed production rates of individual oil wells, and the combined production rate of a field of related oil wells. The aggregate production rate [...]
Image at right, Water in three states: liquid, solid (ice), and (invisible) vapor in air. Clouds are droplets of liquid, condensed from water vapor.
Water is a common chemical substance that is essential for the survival of all known forms of life. In typical usage, water refers only to its liquid form or state, but the [...]
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The water cycle, also known as the hydrologic cycle, describes the continuous movement of water on, above, and below the surface of the Earth. Since the water cycle is truly a “cycle,” there is no beginning or end. Water can change states among liquid, vapor, and ice at various places in the water cycle. Although [...]
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At right: Cyclone Catarina, a rare South Atlantic tropical cyclone, viewed from the International Space Station in March 2004.
A tropical cyclone is a storm system characterized by a large low pressure center and numerous thunderstorms that produce strong winds and flooding rain. Tropical cyclones feed on heat released when moist air rises, resulting in [...]
Image left: Structure of a tropical cyclone. Image above right: Cyclone Catarina, a rare South Atlantic tropical cyclone, viewed from the International Space Station in March 2004. Copyright below.
Gr 3-6: Hurricanes and Tornadoes are Kinds of Cyclones
A cyclone is a powerful storm. Hurricanes and tornadoes are two kinds of cyclones that can do a lot [...]
Gr 3-5: Clouds
Clouds are large amounts of tiny water droplets or tiny pieces of ice that float in the air. They may be white, gray, or black. Clouds play an important part in the Earth’s weather. The water they bring as rain and snow is needed by all forms of life. Clouds can also [...]
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