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"raise students awareness to some environmental issues threatening our planet. I have compiled some great resources for you to use with your students in the classroom. These are mainly acitivities, videos, and printables for teaching and learning about Earth Day."

"high school students - Green Your City. What's an idea using Science, Technology, Engineering or Math that can help green your city? Almost 90 high school students from around the country submitted entries, each answering the question in their own creative way. With over 2,500 YouTube "Like" votes and a combined 15,000 views of the 15 finalist videos,

Wind is one important source of alternative energy. In this activity, kids create their own wind turbine and attach it to a Hot Wheels Car. Then they can use a fan to power the turbines so their cars can move! Wind is a great alternate to fuel since fuel pollutes the air and is nonrenewable. Because wind is a renewable energy source, we will never run out! However, as the girls at Girlstart discovered from testing their own cars, there are some cons to powering a car with wind.

Wastepoered Toilet Mobile - An innovative hybrid project is turning heads across Japan, as the TOTO Bike Neo, known more causally as the poop-mobile, makes a high-profile pitch for environmental responsibility. The three-wheeled bike is powered by biogas fuel made up of fertilized, purified livestock waste and gray-water, according to the International Business Times. Despite the eye-catching -- and decorative -- oversized-toilet seat, the bike does not actually run on excrement provided by the driver. "

"Rachel Simmons is passionate about teaching her students to be responsible leaders and citizens as well as accomplished artists. Her interests range from collaborative community art projects to climate change, marine pollution and ecotourism. Research and geography inform her work; she traveled to Antarctica in 2008 and 2009, and will visit Iceland this summer to study appropriate scale and the sustainable landscape. "

"Scientists in Russia have grown plants from fruit stored away in permafrost by squirrels over 30,000 years ago. The fruit was found in the banks of the Kolyma River in Siberia, a top site for people looking for mammoth bones."

"Although, realistically, you would not use all of these technologies, you should be knowledgeable in what each of the following technology is and how it could be/might be used in a classroom.(\"

"The Palauan jellyfish, Mastigias. The researchers placed green fluorescent dye upstream of the animal body. As the animal continued to swim, it interacted with the dye volume and pulled a volume of dye along with it. This volume of fluid moving with the animal is drift (first identified by Sir Charles Darwin, the grandson of the Origin of Species author)."

The front edge of the pterosaur wing is bone. in wind tunnel experiments this caused drag, making it aerodynamically less efficient than the wings of birds - which use feathers to create a smoother leading edge.  pterosaurs flew in a slow, controlled way, in particular when they came in to land. That would be important to pterosaurs because they had very thin bones which, according to Mr Palmer, could break on landing.

February 16, 2011 3:00 PM-4:00 PM Eastern : In recognition of African American History Month and Engineers Week, Goddard will host live talk show webcasts for students and educators (grades 5-8), featuring African American engineers and scientists. The events will provide the educators with a NASA engineering challenge that they can do in their classrooms.

"Growing The Technology For Artificial Leaves Researchers are developing practical, low-cost materials that can use energy from sunlight to break water into oxygen and hydrogen. Daniel Nocera of MIT explains the science of 'artificial photosynthesis,' and describes his plan to create distributed power generation systems in developing countries."