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The National Environmental Education Foundation, in partnership with The Weather Channel, has launched Classroom Earth, a program designed to enhance and strengthen environmental education in high school classrooms nationwide. By harnessing the expertise and passion of teachers and students around the country, Classroom Earth will enrich the high school curriculum by encouraging the inclusion of environmental education into all high school subjects - from biology to art - and make it easier for teachers to access best practices online. The primary goal of the program is to increase the environmental literacy of high school students and to provide models for including environmental education in high school classrooms through the Web.

Environmental, scientific, & biological information. Covers current environmental news & concerns. Includes the Learning Web— classroom activities & lessons, and a detailed selection of Fact Sheets.

If you have a trained person on staff, you can hookup live to this Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope and control it from your classroom.

very cool real-world interactive science tool!

Another great article about the impact on the environment of something we take for granted - cell phones. (Thanks to Justine Kobeski for sharing this with me)

The Clean Watersheds Project is an interdisciplinary collaboartive watershed monitoring project that uses Google Earth Pro to store and share watershed data. Our main goal is to empower our community of parents, teachers, students and environmental experts to collect, post, and analyze data about our changing watersheds in an effort to improve the health of our national watersheds.

Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels. We are a modern "museum" that helps making the world understandable, using Internet.

Earth & Sky is an award winning daily earth science, astronomy, and environmental science radio series heard by millions of listeners on over 950 commercial and public stations.

CHANCE(Connecting Humans And Nature through Conservation Experiences) is a coordinated effort and partnership between Penn State and PDE that addresses the need to train Pennsylvania 9th - 12th grade teachers in environmental science and ecology. Includes

Kerpoof Home Page

Kerpoof is all about having fun, discovering things, and being creative. Here are just a few ways that you can use Kerpoof: * Make artwork (even if you aren't good at drawing!) * Make an animated movie (really! it's easy!) * Earn Koins which you can trade for fun things in the Kerpoof Store * Make a printed card, t-shirt, or mug * Tell a story * Make a drawing * Vote on the movies, stories, and drawings that other people have made

Kerpoof is all about having fun, discovering things, and being creative. Here are just a few ways that you can use Kerpoof: * Make artwork (even if you aren't good at drawing!) * Make an animated movie (really! it's easy!) * Earn Koins which you can trade for fun things in the Kerpoof Store * Make a printed card, t-shirt, or mug * Tell a story * Make a drawing * Vote on the movies, stories, and drawings that other people have made

Homework and Study Help - Free help with your algebra, biology, environmental science, American government, US history, physics and religion homework. HippoCampus is a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE). The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge.

resources (animations, simulations, labs) arranged by topic or following your textbook. Free registration and ability to create your own frontpage tailored to your course/students.