April 22nd is Earth Day. Celebrate it with your students by letting them visit these websites:
- Breathing earth– the environment
- Breathing Earth YouTube Video–of CO2 use, population changes, and more
- Conservation Game
- Earth Day—NASA Ocean Currents
- Earth Day Printables
- Eco-friendly house
- Ecotourism Simulation–for grades 4 and above
- EekoWorld
- Electrocity
- Footprint calculator
- History of Earth Day–lots of reading
- Home of the Future
- My Garbology
- NASA City
If you’re looking for apps, try these:
- Brain Cafe GeoQuiz
- The Four Seasons – An Earth Day Interactive Children’s Storybook
- Green Kitchen
- Green Power Battery Saver
- iRecycle
- Peerby–borrow from your neighbors
- Recycling Truck–drive the truck; see what it picks up; for youngers
- SOLARCHECKER
- UNEP Carbon Calculator
Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 15 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-8 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, CSG Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice book reviewer, Editorial Review Board member for Journal for Computing Teachers, CAEP reviewer, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, and a weekly contributor to TeachHUB. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.
Starfall.com has an interactive for young students called Every Day is Earth Day.
Thanks for the reminder, Maria. It’s a good one!