KidsVsPollution

This video is an end product of the solution to a group's project-based learning big idea of pollution. It incorporates the three R's of recycling: reuse, reduce, and recycle. The video shows a creative approach in involving a school to promote recycling to help endangered animals affected by pollution.

This webpage is from WWF, World Wildlife Fund, a global conservation organization that works to protect nature and all of its animals. This page provides brief yet valuable information about how we can reduce our impact to help animals affected by pollution.

The scholastic website provides a multitude of resources and activities for teacher and students to use. Some include technology tools, organizers, and templates. One template in particular, KWL chart, allows students to sort through information by aid of a graphic organizer. In the "K" column of the chart, students are able to indicate what they already know about the chosen topic. In the "W" column, students are welcome to write down what they want to learn about the key topic. Then once new information was learned and questions answered, students have the opportunity to write down what they learned in the "L" column.

Doodle Splash is an interactive tool from readthinkwrite. It allows for students to visualize what they are learning and/or reading by creating with doodles, drawings, and symbols to express themselves. After completing an image, students can print their creation and share with the class for feedback and assessment.

This site provides on online presentation of a children's book, Harriet's Home at the Sea written by Evelyn Wang. The book presents a child-friendly account of an oil spill and how the water habitat suffers from oil pollution.

This YouTube video was produced by a non-profit organization, RI/MA, which works to promote education and action for a cleaner environment. The video shows a group of volunteers take action to clean up a beach. It is one way to show how we can help animals affected by pollution.

This site showcases a place for students, individual and groups alike, to map out their ideas about a particular topic or subject. It is a great place to brainstorm at the forefront of a project when ideas are flowing and in need of organization!

This webpage promotes the awareness of pollution and introduces it to students in a fun, memorable way. As students click the places on the picture that show where humans are causing damage to the environment, they are led into even more information about the causes and what can be done to protect the environment instead. The cartoon and game-like feel to the website is sure to grab the attention of young ones!

This is an electronic alternative to traditional textbooks. It allows the students to see the content in a different way, for those more "visual" learners, and even has an option for the text to be read aloud, for the more "audio" learners. This site even provides the opportunity for students to access the text at home for assigned homework or check-ins following a daily lesson.

This site is easy to use! It is a great place for students to show what they have learned after a lesson, to raise questions about content that might be confusing to them and/or they want to know more about, and to read and respond to their peers' thoughts. It is a great substitute for the "exit" slip at the conclusion of a lesson.

This short, yet effective, video discusses how pollution in the air, water, and on land has been caused by people making changes in the places they live. In order to reduce pollution and trash, students learn the importance of recycling products, reducing the amount of products used, and reusing products when they can.

This video talks about water, land, and air pollution. It discusses how people, plants, and animals are affected by pollution. This video also offers ideas for how to reduce, reuse, and recycle.

This is a great video to introduce the topic of recycling among preschool/primary grade children.

Eco Friendly Kids is a website dedicated to kids and their environment. It contains information, tips,and fun games for children. It is also great for parents to use as they take part in their child's education of the environment.

This is a great site that breaks down all the different types of pollutions that are effecting our environment.

This source not only provides superb information on endangered species, but also provides links to a number of related articles. There is a even a place for a discussion board where children can share their ideas about how to save species in danger of disappearing from the earth.

This is a great site where the Animal Planet R.O.A.R. combines its efforts with the World Wildlife Fund. Their goal is to share how anyone, even children, can make a difference in the lives of endangered species. Facts are shared about each endangered specie and there is an option to adopt and help out!

This is a fabulous tool where elementary students can find an endangered animal to research. After selecting an endangered animal from one of the continents, the students can learn what the animal eats, their behaviors, why they are endangered, etc. There are games and links to helpful books as well as lesson plans for teachers.