APES Workshops

Looks young at start...claims it is k-12 appropriate.In this Watershed Sleuth Challenge, you will learn more about your watershed-what it is, why it's important, and what you can do to help protect it, as you earn badges at each level of this three-part course. In the first lesson, you will learn about the watershed basics: where the water comes from, where it goes, and what it does along the way. Completing this lesson on the facts of watersheds and water quality earns you the blue Watershed Sleuth badge.

Our divers enjoy opportunities to visit school classrooms and talk with kids about ocean stewardship. Visits typically include pictures and video of aquatic creatures as well as polluted water sites to show how EPA uses scientific diving to help protect our underwater environment.

Virtual Simulations in Biomagnification Tragedy of the Commons and Fragmentation

PEI provides the highest quality professional development to educators in Washington, enabling them to bring their students into the outdoors.

Explore indoor air pollution

Modeling the greenhouse effect

Students go through the process of constructing a landfill

Students discover how much landfill space can be saved by recycling

Explore different ways water is used and can be conserved

See how competition over resources effects population

Change Birth and Death rates (or use different countries rates) to see how populations change over time

Virtual dissection of an owl pellet

Students set up a marine biome and have to maintain it over time

Students create energy pyramids for different ecosystems

Students have to create different food chains and energy transferred between levels

Calculate your Ecological Footprint

In our APES Institute we discussed this weekly feature online or in newspapers.

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Get a snapshot of the impact of your daily lifestyle. Compare how much water is used to make a variety of products so that you can choose to reduce your water footprint. For those that want to find out more, the green, blue and grey water footprint shows the source of water consumed and the volume of fresh water required for assimilation of pollutants.