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Unit 3D Earth's Resources

Unit Project: Conducting an Environmental Fair

Plan and hold a fair to show ways that everyone can help care for Earth's air, water, and land.

 
Project Link 1 (Chapter 1, p. D13)
Develop a list of things you could do to help protect Earth's air quality. Review each idea and discuss whether it is possible. If an idea is possible, then carry it out. Make posters to show what you have done. Use the posters to help others learn what they can do.

Internet Links
Earth's Air

Environmental Defense Fund
Global Warming: Focus on the Future
http://www.enviroweb.org/edf

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Explorers' Club: Air
http://www.epa.gov/kids/air.htm

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Sources of Information on Indoor Air Quality
http://www.epa.gov/iaq/homes.html

Wheeling Jesuit University
Classroom of the Future: UV Menace
http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/ozone/uvmenace.html

Student Resources

  • Air Pollution


  • Polución del aire

    Project Link 2 (Chapter 2, p. D41)
    Make a list of things you could do to help care for Earth's water. Think first about projects that you really can accomplish. Make posters about your projects, and what you have done. Use what you've learned to teach other students and members of your community.

    Internet Links
    Earth's Water

    U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
    Explorers' Club: Water
    http://www.epa.gov/kids/water.htm

    U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
    Getting Involved in Your Watershed — Fifteen Things You Can
    Do to Make a Difference in Your Watershed
    http://www.epa.gov/owow/watershed/earthday/earthday.html

    U.S. Environmental Protection Agency:
    Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water — Kids' Stuff
    http://www.epa.gov/OGWDW/kids/

    Wheeling Jesuit University
    Classroom of the Future: Watershed Blues
    http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/waterq/waterq.html

    Student Resources

  • Water Pollution


  • Polución del agua

    Project Link 3 (Chapter 3, p. D55)
    Think of things you could do to help conserve Earth's land resources. Remember that simple projects are more likely to be successful. Make posters to show what you have done. Use your posters to teach others about what they can do. You may want to make a video presentation. Think about using your presentation to gain support for a school Clean-Up Day.

    Internet Links
    Earth's Land Resources

    Earth Day 2003: Kids in Action
    http://earthday.wilderness.org/kidsstuff/

    Heartland All Species Project
    Earth Day in Your Neighborhood: How to Do an Earth Day
    on Your Block This Spring
    http://www.allspecies.org/neigh/block.htm

    U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
    Superfund Regional Programs
    http://www.epa.gov/superfund/regions/index.htm

    Wheeling Jesuit University
    Classroom of the Future: Tropical Poison
    http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/troppois/troppois.html

    Student Resources

  • Land Pollution


  • Polución de la tierra


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