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WebQuest Internet Resources
Links last updated 05/08/2012

WebQuest

For this WebQuest, you will use library and Internet resources to research your team's Earth issue. We have identified some Internet resources for each issue listed below. An * (asterix) indicates that a resource is an easy-reading resource for students in grades 3-4.

EARTH ISSUES

  • Air Pollution
  • Energy Depletion
  • Overflowing Landfills
  • Rain Forest Destruction
  • Vanishing Species
  • Water Pollution

Air Pollution

 

* The Air That We Breathe
http://whyfiles.org/030air_pollution/

* The Last Gasp Gazette(pages 1,2)
http://www.aqmd.gov/ej/CAC/kids/kidspages.pdf

* Air Quality: Just for Kids
http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/air/kids/Kids_Page.htm

* Clean Air Kids: Air Quality
http://www.clean-air-kids.org.uk/airquality.html

On the Trail of the Missing Ozone
http://www.epa.gov/ozone/science/missoz/

What's All the Fuss About Air Pollution?
http://www.hcdoes.org/airquality/kids/Pollution.htm

Motor Vehicles and Air Pollution Quiz
http://www.epa.gov/OMSWWW/quiz/quiz-env.htm

Protecting Your Health: Air Pollution
http://www.lungusa.org/healthy-air/outdoor/protecting-your-health/

Cars and Trucks and Air Pollution: Clean Vehicles
http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_vehicles/vehicle_impacts/cars_pickups_and_su...

Indoor and Outdoor Pollution
http://www.lbl.gov/Education/ELSI/pollution-main.html

The Science of Ozone Depletion
http://www.epa.gov/ozone/science/

EPA Student Center: Air
http://www.epa.gov/students/homework.html#air
 

Energy Depletion

 

* Energy Quest
http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/index.html

* Energy Information Administration Kids Page
http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/

* Kids Saving Energy
http://www.eere.energy.gov/kids/

* Department of Energy for Students & Kids
http://www.energy.gov/forstudentsandkids.htm

* Energy Guide for Kids
http://tiki.oneworld.net/energy/energy.html

* Energy Star Kids
http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=kids.kids_index

* Touchstone Energy Kids Zone
http://www.touchstoneenergykids.com/

* Alliant Energy Kids
http://www.alliantenergykids.com/index.htm

A Consumer's Guide to Energy Efficiency
http://www.eere.energy.gov/consume/

Natural Resources Defense Council: Energy
http://www.nrdc.org/air/energy/default.asp

Energy Information Administration
http://www.eia.doe.gov/

EIA (Energy Information Administration) Energy Kids
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/kids/

National Renewable Energy Laboratory
http://www.nrel.gov/

Overflowing Landfills

 

* EPA: Garbage and Recycling
http://www.epa.gov/students/homework.html#rrr

* The Rotten Truth About Garbage
http://www.astc.org/exhibitions/rotten/rthome.htm

* Trash Facts (from Keep America Beautiful)
http://web.archive.org/web/20040227133904/http://www.kab.org/trashfacts.cfm

Planet Protectors Create Less Waste in the First Place
http://www.epa.gov/osw/education/pdfs/jellyjar.pdf

Trash and Climate Change
http://www.epa.gov/osw/education/pdfs/k00-001.pdf

Museum of Solid Waste: Introduction to Solid Waste(pages 10-17)
http://www.need.org/needpdf/Museum%20of%20Solid%20Waste%20&%20Energy.pdf

Museum of Solid Waste: Landfilling (pages 38-41)
http://www.need.org/needpdf/Museum%20of%20Solid%20Waste%20&%20Energy.pdf

Museum of Solid Waste: Introduction to Recycling (pages 18-37)
http://www.need.org/needpdf/Museum%20of%20Solid%20Waste%20&%20Energy.pdf

Garbage: How Can My Community Reduce Solid Waste?
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/garbage/intro.html

Looking Into Landfills
http://www.acnatsci.org/research/kye/landfills.html

Brown County Landfill Kids Page: Fun Factoids
http://www.browncountylandfill.org/kid.html

Rain Forest Destruction

 

* Rainforest Heroes
http://www.rainforestheroes.com

* Amazon Interactive
http://www.eduweb.com/amazon.html

* Take a Walk in the Rain Forest
http://www.pbs.org/tal/costa_rica/rainwalk.html

* Rain Forest Rescue
http://www.arborday.org/programs/RainForestRescue.html

* Exploring the Tropical Rain Forest
http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/rforest/explore/valley.htm

Tropical Rainforest Information for Kids
http://kids.mongabay.com/

Rainforests 2015
http://www.worldwildlife.org/what/wherewework/amazon/index.html

Tropical Rainforest: Rainforest Biomes
http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/rainforest.htm

Forest Facts
http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/resources.cfm?id=facts

Journey Into Amazonia
http://www.pbs.org/journeyintoamazonia/

Rain Forest Action Network
http://www.ran.org/

Rain Forest Facts
http://www.rain-tree.com/facts.htm

Vanishing Species

 

* EndangeredSpecies.com
http://endangeredspecie.com/

* Kids Planet E-Species Animal Fact Sheets
http://www.kidsplanet.org/factsheets/map.html

* Endangered: Exploring a World at Risk
http://www.amnh.org/nationalcenter/Endangered/index.html

* Return of the Species
http://whyfiles.org/015species_restore/index.html

Bagheera: An Endangered Species and Endangered Animal Web Site
http://www.bagheera.com/

Endangered Animals: Rare, Threatened, and Endangered Animals and Mammals
http://www.animalinfo.org/

Endangered Animals
http://library.thinkquest.org/11353/e-animals.htm/

Endangered Species Map (U.S.)
http://www.endangeredspecie.com/map.htm

Bagheera: An Endangered Species and Endangered Animal Web Site
http://www.bagheera.com/

School World's Endangered Species Project
http://www.schoolworld.asn.au/species/species.html

Endangered Species (World Wildlife Fund)
http://www.worldwildlife.org/endangered/index.cfm

Endangered Species of the Next Millennium
http://library.thinkquest.org/25014/english.index.shtml

Fish and Wildlife Species
http://species.fws.gov/

Endangered Species at EE Link
http://eelink.net/EndSpp/

Water Pollution

 

* Water Pollution Kids Page
http://www.epa.gov/OWOW/NPS/kids/

* Especially for Kids: Clean Water
http://www.oceansidecleanwaterprogram.org/kids.asp

* Water Pollution Guide
http://www.water-pollution.org.uk/

Clean Water: Water Pollution
http://www.chewonki.org/cleanwater/water_pollution.asp

EPA Student Center: Water
http://www.epa.gov/students/homework.html#water
InfoPlease: Water Pollution
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0851609.html

The Quality of Our Nation's Water (EPA)
http://www.epa.gov/305b/

 

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