Check out these fun sites for more games and information about Climate Change.

EPA Climate and Waste Kids Activities

This page has publications and links to help educate kids about the relationship between solid waste and climate change.

EPA's Explorers' Club

At this fun Web site, you can check out:

• Happy Earth Day Activity Book – An 11-page activities book full of tips for making Earth a better place.
• On the Trail of the Missing Ozone – This comic book features a reporter who uncovers some surprising facts about air pollution.
• President’s Environmental Youth Award – Every year kids that work to protect their environment are recognized for their efforts. Find out what other kids have done and how you can be part of it.
• Recycle City – A game, an interactive story book, and other puzzles will teach you hundreds of ways a whole town can reduce, reuse, and recycle.
• When Greenville Turned Brown - Here you'll find an interactive story with really cool graphics that tells you how one town cleaned up their environment.

EcoKids Online

A site for kids about the planet and its animals. It includes:

• Games;
• News and Facts about animals;
• Special guests;
• Gallery of children's art; and,
• A discussion area.

This site also includes an educator's learning guide with activities and additional links.

EduGreen

EduGreen is making environmental learning fun for kids! With four main sections – Explore, Play, Network, and Surf – the site covers subject topics like Life on Earth, Energy, Air pollution, and Water. It also has poems, calendars, story time, pathfinders, quotes, maps, multimedia resources, and related Web site links. Interactive features include games, quizzes and networking with others.

Encyclopedia of the Atmospheric Environment

The Encyclopedia of the Atmospheric Environment is a one-stop source of information on a range of atmopsheric issues, including air quality, acid rain, climate change and ozone depletion.

Environmental Education on the Internet (EE-Link)

EE-Link is a strong presence for Environmental Education (EE) on the Internet. Consistent with the Key Principles of Environmental Education , EE-Link develops and organizes Internet resources to support, enhance and extend effective environmental education in grades K-12.

Environmental Web directory

Educators can find an extensive list of school project ideas relating to the environment at this site.

Global Learning and Observations
to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE)

GLOBE is a worldwide network of students, teachers, and scientists working together to study and understand the global environment. Students and teachers from over 6,500 schools in more than 80 countries are working with research scientists to learn more about our planet. GLOBE students make environmental observations at or near their schools and report their data through the Internet. Scientists use GLOBE data in their research and provide feedback to the students to enrich their science education.

Global Warming: Focus on the Future

Global Warming: Focus on the Future is the official web version of the award-winning exhibit, Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast, which closed on Labor Day, 1997 after a five-year, nine-city tour. The Web site encourages visitors to learn about the history of the issue, examines why the recent changes to the atmosphere are a problem, and empowers them to help solve the problem by giving specific examples of ways they can help to reduce emissions of gases that cause Global Warming.

Information about a game "Global Change"

Here kids can. . .

• You guessed it! Find out information on a game called "Global Change";
• See the Game's Giant World Map;
• Read about the history of the game.

Educators can learn how to host the Game in their community and become a Global Change Game volunteer.

The International Year of the Ocean
Home Page for Kids and Educators

At this site you can find:

• Numerous activity and coloring books;
• Fact sheets on Climate Change, Coral Reefs, and Endangered Whales (plus many more);
• How to adopt a buoy; and,
• How to become an ocean champion and take the ocean pledge.

For teachers, there is the Educator's Guide (downloadable) as well as many useful fact sheets.

Meet Professor Polar Bear

Check out this site for more answers to the questions:

• What is global warming?
• What causes global warming?
• What are the effects of global warming?

Also:

• Check out the weekly questions section.
• Test your climate change knowledge with the weekly quiz!

NOVA Online: Warnings from the Ice

Explore how Antarctica's ice has preserved the past – from Chernobyl to the Little Ice Age – going back hundreds of thousands of years, and then see how the world's coastlines would recede if some or all of this ice were to melt. This excellent site for kids also includes a guide and resources for educators.

ThinkQuest

ThinkQuest is the home of the International ThinkQuest web-building contest. The site contains thousands of Web sites created by students for students about almost every topic under the sun. There are a number of sites about climate change and many sites about the environment. This is a tremendous resource for both kids and educators.

US Global Change Research
Information Office's "It's Elementary!"

This site was designed by a teacher "specifically for teachers to access, view, and print lessons during one planning period using their school's internet connection." Topics for lesson plans include: Air Quality, Acid Rain, Air Pollution, Carbon Dioxide, Greenhouse Effect, Ozone, Global Change, Oceans – Remote Sensing, Pioneers in Energy, Science Projects, and Student Activities.