This U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) water resources site provides comprehensive coverage of water related issues, and includes several interactive quizzes and activities for children. Here you will find information on many aspects of water, along with pictures, data, maps, and an interactive center. Topics include: Earth's water, Water basics, Water use, Water Questions and Answers, Activity center, ... Full description.

These interactive exercises are designed to help students learn about river processes like discharge, flooding, and flood frequency. Each activity requires them to make careful observations and measurements, do simple calculations, and answer questions about their work. An interactive feedback and answer checking function checks their work. A Certificate of Completion is available at the end of each ... Full description.

This resource offers information on the history and current management of sanctuaries, scientific and educational programs, and continuing efforts to conserve U.S. ocean and coastal treasures. The sanctuaries featured include: the Channel Islands, Cordell Bank, Fagatele Bay, Florida Keys, Flower Garden Banks, Grays Reef, Gulf of the Fallarones, Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale, Monitor, Monterey Bay, ... Full description.

The New Millennium Observatory (NeMO) is a seafloor observatory off the coast of Oregon, which studies the relationships between submarine volcanic events and the chemistry and distribution of hydrothermal vents and the biologic communities that depend on them. The research activities at NeMO provide an extraordinary educational opportunity, both from the daily reports from expeditions at sea and ... Full description.

This site contains a series of six posters all relating to water education: wetlands, water use, waste water, navigation, ground water, and water quality. Each poster includes information about the topic as well as related classroom activities. The objective of the water-resources education program is to stimulate interest in and provide a basic knowledge of water resources for students in grades ... Full description.

This site provides an overview of the earth's atmospheric greenhouse effect by briefly exploring the atmospheres of nearby planets and discussing the greenhouse gases of our atmosphere. Information at this site helps students to understand that the greenhouse effect is what makes this planet suitable for life as we know it and that the earth's atmosphere contains trace gases, water vapor, carbon dioxide, ... Full description.

Students participating in this lesson will collect, observe, and record particulates from the air to contrast visible and invisible air pollution. They then complete a simulation of the damage due to acid rain to illustrate invisible pollution. The lesson plan provides essential elements, objective, focus, a list of materials, background information, procedure, and ideas for enrichment. Full description.

This site offers informative sections on air and climate, land, water, ecosystems, energy, food, and environment and society. A teachers section provides online resources for the classroom, including background information, scientific research and data, lesson plans, labs, and activities. A student section provides homework help and a Weird and Wonderful page with strange creatures of the universe. ... Full description.

This site houses a special section for children's water education and activities. Because this site was complied in New Jersey, there is an emphasis on water issues in this state; however, the concepts are broad enough to extend use of this site to all states. There are handouts and visuals for some fun facts about water, the water cycle, and the process of water treatment and distribution. Two games, ... Full description.

This web site provides an introduction to the issues surrounding the use of water. It offers an interactive question and answer format that allows users to see the direct result of their decision with respect to the use of the watershed in four main subject areas. The areas of concern are: national parks, agriculture, neighborhoods, and cities. Full description.