3rd-5th

=3rd - 5th Puzzles, Projects, Investigations=

Air-ful!
http://www.healthyschools.org/kids_page.html

National Park Service for kids http://www.nps.gov/webrangers/

great update on marine plastics pollution http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Ocean%20garbage%20Floating%20landmines/4470844/story.html

many short BP videos http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/

national geokids on BP spill http://kidsblogs.nationalgeographic.com/greenscene/gulf-oil-spill.html

clams for clean-up (with high school girls) http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2009/0110-clam_cleanup.htm

monitoring drinking water with fish http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2007/0303-small_fish_detect_big_problems.htm

scientists develop kits for children to test drinking water http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2005/1209-testing_water.htm

kid's page: national healthy schools network http://www.healthyschools.org/kids_page.html

satellite images of BP spill http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/oilspill/

short ocean videos, many on Galapagos http://marinebio.org/gallery/video/

short BP video http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/37561802#37561802

ocean conservancy video: http://www.youtube.com/oceanconservancy (3 minutes, good on things that can be done).

nasa kid's pages http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/Summer_Training/Elementary97/Lesson4_AirIsSomething.HTML

videos: (lots on BP spill, Samantha Joye): http://www.eoearth.org/videos/

national geographic: oil spill resources for educators http://www.nationalgeographic.com/educator-resources/oil-spills/

elementary reading resources

Cousteau Ocean Adventures (with videos) http://www.pbs.org/kqed/oceanadventures/

National Env Education Week certificates: http://eeweek.org/thankyou

very good on threats to Belugas, near extinction in Alaska http://www.whale-watching-alaska.com/aboutus.php

Philosophy for Kids http://www.p4c.org.nz/

St. Lawrence River Belugas With Cancer Video http://www.pbs.org/kqed/oceanadventures/episodes/seaghosts/indepth-belugas.html

wikipedia: Beluga Whale (including Faroe Island stamp) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beluga_whale

Beluga as Vt State Fossil http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/Vermont/VT-fossil-whale.html

St. Lawrence River Beluga Whale fact sheet http://www.hww.ca/hww2.asp?id=381

Kid's Biology, Beluga Whales

whale on-line: belugas (great on toxics) http://bed2.gremm.org/eng/pag.php?PagRef=2-1-27

Hinterland Who's Who: Lesson Plans http://www.hww.ca/hww.asp?id=5&pid=0 including great on remote sensing and oil spills: http://www.hww.ca/hww2.asp?id=129

bycatch for kids -- whales and dolphins http://www.wdcs.org/wdcskids/en/index.php

Greenpeace, costco seafood victory http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/

Feb 16, 2011. The End of Coral Reefs? by Australian marine scientist http://www.abc.net.au/environment/articles/2011/02/16/3140465.htm

Monterery Bay Aquarium -- nice page on diving gear http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/lc/activities/diving_gear.aspx plastics in the water column http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/lc/teachers_place/resources_teaching_activities.aspx#6-8

Friends of the Earth Ocean work http://www.foe.org/air-and-water

=The oily Gulf.: An article from: Science News for Kids [HTML] [Digital] = [|Stephen Ornes] (Author)

Science New for Kids http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20100106/Feature1.asp

National Environmental Education Week: curriculum library, reading suggestions, etc http://www.eeweek.org/resources/curricula_library.htm

world ocean's day -- http://www.greenmuze.com/nature/oceans/1193-world-oceans-day.html

NOAA on garbage patch -- http://marinedebris.noaa.gov/info/patch.html see also -- http://seaplexscience.com/2011/01/10/does-the-great-pacific-garbage-patch-exist/ also -- http://www.greenmuze.com/reviews/films/710-addicted-to-plastic-review.html

interview with Ocean Annie: http://www.independent.com/news/2010/jun/13/imagination-ocean-annie/

Activist stop Japanese whaling-- http://www.abc.net.au/environment/video.html?t=home&s=video

fishing regs in New England -- http://www.economist.com/node/18118847

Should whaling be banned (BBC coverage with links) -- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/3545799.stm

[|chemistry activities for kids]

USGS video of sampling pre and post oil landfall (5 minutes) http://www.usgs.gov/oilspill/ questions: Who is the USGS? Why is it helpful to have pre-event data to compare to post-event data? Why is it important to clearly mark and distinguish beach sand and marsh sediment? (less clear) How will the data collected during this kind of scientific detective work be used? (litigation)

Samantha Joye on abc -- 5 minutes, pretty poor video quality, great shots of deep submarine at work. focus on "everything's dead" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DdV7GGCvOA

UCGS video on climate change http://gallery.usgs.gov/videos/346

Ted Talk:Jeremy Jackson, "How We Wrecked the Oceans." http://www.ted.com/talks/jeremy_jackson.html

[|State Environmental Education Roundable] (SEER)

[|National Environmental Education Roundtable]

Place-Based Education (including curriculum on Adirondack Ecology) http://promiseofplace.org/curriculum_and_planning/curricular_resources

Hudson-Hoosic Watershed http://cfpub.epa.gov/surf/huc.cfm?huc_code=02020003

Middle School reading on streams, watersheds http://www.epa.gov/owow/NPS/nps_edu/index.html (the whatsastream?? is good)

A Simple Question: Film and Place-Based Curricular Approach http://www.asimplequestion.org/

Ocean Annie -- dvds: http://www.anniecrawley.com/dive-into-diversity-dvd-product-information/

sustainable seafood http://www.care2.com/causes/real-food/blog/putting-sustainable-seafood-on-the-map/

climate change and sea level rise http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=info%3Adoi%2F10.1289%2Fehp.119-a20

brainpop on oceans -- http://www.brainpopjr.com/search/?keyword=oceans (free on artic)

climate change and coral reefs http://www.planktonproductions.com.au/news/coral-reef-education-videos.php

This film compelled me to seek our exactly how large my own ecological footprint was. You can calculate your own footprint at []. This site has a huge amount of educational value concerning what our current levels of consumption are and what we can do to improve them. It is an excellent hands on exercise in sustainability and one of the very few which you can see the results of immediately. My footprint was 4 earths (how much space would be needed if everyone lived like me) which is actually fairly low. I don’t own a car, live in shared housing, and don’t eat a whole lot of meat. I also created a few best and worst case scenarios while I was on this site. A highly consumptive American can have consumption levels as high as 12 earths and the lowest consumption Americans can have as low as 3 earths consumption. In comparison, the highest end lifestyles in India use only 2.4 earths and can be as low and 1/3 of an earth. These are some very interesting and useful statistics. What I can take from this is that if I want to improve minimize my footprint here in America, roughly the only things I can do to make a significant impact are buy a green designed home and become a vegan. It seems, however, that I can make a much more significant impact by moving to another country. What this means is clearly up to interpretation but it is certainly something interesting to think about. Another site where you can calculate this is []. This site isn’t quite as fun and interactive, but it is equally informational and produced pretty similar results.

[|PBS Now for Educators] (only 9-12?)

EPA on climate change (with animations, games) http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/kids/index.html

math games website (calculating raindrops) http://www.lumosity.com/training_program_progresses/11224943/games

[|Ryan's Well]

on deformed frogs http://www.blog.thesietch.org/2007/10/28/nutrient-pollution-ramping-up-frog-deformities-sweet-jesus/

Environmental Players

[|Manhatta curriculum for upper elementary students] NASA for educators http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/k-4/index.html

Great EPA Student Resource (including link to Wisconsin Online Mag which describe enviro jobs) http://www.epa.gov/students/fun.html

Hubbard Brook Environmental Literacy Project (resources for teaching acid rain) http://www.hubbardbrookfoundation.org/article/articleview/12607/1/2078 = =

http://kids.nceas.ucsb.edu/
NIEHS on kids, Katrina and other disasters (lots of links, including to ToxTown to see how chemical contaminants work) http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/katrina.htm

[|sculpture projects]

Ecosystems, Eco-thinking
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Water
link to water videos -- http://www.howstuffworks.com/dead-zone.htm/printable

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Energy Investigations
== [|Pringles Wind Turbine]

Solar cooker some projects for Kids [|Solar Cookers]