Earth Day Projects

To celebrate Earth Day and to invest our minds in learning about vital issues facing our planet, you will be researching several ecological issues; you'll summarize your findings with  co-lab presentations. 

You must cover the following in your presentations:

1.  Teach us about alternative energy

1. What are the options?  Describe each of the types of alternative energy
2. Why are these energy options better than fossil fuels?

http://www.eia.gov/kids/energy.cfm?page=kiddie_resources
http://www.alliantenergykids.com/energyandtheenvironment/renewableenergy/

2.  Teach us about climate change

1. What's causing it?
2. What are the effects?
3. Why do some people argue that climate change is not real?  Can we prove it's really happening (yes)?  How?
4. What can we do now?

 http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/basics/
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/students/basics/index.html
 http://www.eschooltoday.com/climate-change/Introduction-to-climate-change-for-children.html


3.  Teach us about toxins in:

• The rain:  
• http://epa.gov/acidrain/education/site_students/index.html
• http://www.clean-air-kids.org.uk/acidrain.html
• Hazardous substance spills: 
• http://www.kidzworld.com/article/24170-oil-spills-sad-but-true
• Chemicals in everyday life (our drinking water, our food, etc.) 
• (Think Food Inc.)  
• Also: http://www2.epa.gov/learn-issues/learn-about-chemicals-and-toxics
• The air: 
• http://www.clean-air-kids.org.uk/airquality.html
• http://www.clean-air-kids.org.uk/ozonehole.html
• http://www.epa.gov/air/toxicair/newtoxics.html

4.  Teach us about recycling:

http://www.benefits-of-recycling.com/recyclingforkids/

http://www.kidsface.org/pages/newsletter/home.html

Grand Canyon:

Best (notice all the tabs on the top left): http://www.kidsgeo.com/geology-for-kids/0078B-grand-canyon.php

http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/earth/grandcanyon.html



Dust Bowl:
http://easyscienceforkids.com/all-about-dust-bowl/

http://mrfeltsclasspresentationpage.blogspot.com/


User name: mrfeltsclass196
Password: Bulldog15!

You will be creating co-lab presentations that help explain the forces that change earth's surface.  There are not as many great links to direct you to for this research, but we do have really good textbooks and you can draw any any information from the Interactive Read Aloud I am doing as well as the videos we will watch.

You need to cover the following in your presentations:

1.  What are the three primary forces that change earth's surface?
1. Teach us about earthquakes and volcanoes
1. Tectonic plates
2. Faults
3. How are earthquakes measured?
2. Teach us about glaciers
1. What percentage of the world is currently covered by glaciers?
1. What impact does global warming have?
2. How do glaciers move?
3. Teach us about weathering and erosion
1. Teach us about chemical and physical weathering
2. What is soil?
3. Teach us about erosion
4. Teach us about deposition
5. Landforms caused by erosion and weathering

 

Tectonics:

http://www.ducksters.com/science/earth_science/plate_tectonics.php

Volcanoes:

http://www.ducksters.com/science/volcanoes.php

Faults

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/kids/eqscience.php

Glaciers

http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/earth/glaciers.html

Erosion:

http://www.ducksters.com/science/earth_science/erosion.php

http://www.geography4kids.com/files/land_erosion.html

http://www.kidsgeo.com/geology-for-kids/0060-weathering.php

Soil Deposition:

http://www.kidsgeo.com/geology-for-kids/0079-deposits.php

http://www.ehow.com/info_8512606_deposition-kids.html

Other helpful links:


http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/Vigil.html
http://www.geography4kids.com/files/earth_intro.html
http://www.geography4kids.com/files/earth_rocktypes.html
http://www.geography4kids.com/files/earth_tectonics.html
http://johomaps.com/world/worldtecton.html