Climate Change
EPA links
Create a new climate for action Grades 6-8 , Grades 9-12
Join with other teens to green your energy scene. You can make a difference to the planet, children's health, and the future. Use the tools on this site to get smart on how you can help and calculate your impact. Become a Climate Ambassador by motivating your friends, school, and community to address climate change and children's health.
epa.gov/climateforaction/
Climate Change Grades
6-8, Grades
9-12
epa.gov/climatechange/
Detailed information about climate change concepts and developments: what it
is, what it can do, and what's being done about it. Access the Greenwire news
service for Climate Change news and the U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory.
Climate Change, Wildlife, and Wildlands - A Toolkit for Teachers
and Interpreters
epa.gov/climatechange/wycd/ORWKit.html
EPA, in partnership with
the National Park Service and with input from the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, developed a kit for use when talking with the
public about how climate change is affecting our nation's wildlife
and public lands. Order
it or download it. Related information: Actions You Can Take at School
External links
Climate Classroom K-12, Teachers
What's up with global warming? National Wildlife Federation's ClimateClassroom.org offers realistic suggestions for becoming part of the global-warming solution.
www.climateclassroom.org/
Count Down Your Carbon Grades
9-12, Teachers
http://www.CountDownYourCarbon.org
See how your choices can help stop climate change, track your individual reductions as well as the collective effort. Learn about simple actions that have real carbon reductions associated with them.
EducaPoles Teachers
EducaPoles is the International Polar Foundation's educational site. It sets out to sensitize young people and the educational world to the importance of the Polar Regions and of climate change by proposing adapted teaching tools and projects.
educapoles.org/
EE Link Teachers K-12
eelink.net/pages/Teachers
This Web site porvides educators of students in Pre-K thriugh 12th grade with free downloadable lesson plans and webpage links on a range of environemntal education topics.
Global
Warming Facts and Our Future - Koshland Science Museum Grades
6-8, Grades
9-12
www.koshlandscience.org/exhibitgcc/
Explore the latest scientific information on global warming. Discover how a
warmer climate might affect your life and what could be done to minimize the
potentially harmful effects of climate change.
Global Warming Kids Teachers , Grades K-5
www.hippoworks.com/animalsearth/
Creative cartoons about global warming. Geared towards K-4th grades.
The Greens Grades
6-8, Teachers
meetthegreens.pbskids.org/
The Greens is full of fun interactive ways to get active on topics from green fashion to recycling using blogs and mini episodes staring characters you can relate to.