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These links are for all four roles to use!

Enviro Kids Explorer's Club

This is a great site by the US Environmental Protection Agency with tons to do!   

What is pollution and how do people cause it? 

You can find out by clicking on "Air" and then On the Trail of the Missing Ozone. This time look closely at On The Trail of The Missing Ozone.  

How do fossil fuels cause air pollution?  
How does this pollution affect the Ozone layer? 

You can learn about water pollution by clicking on "Water" and find out how water is treated to clean it from pollutants. Make a list of activities you do with water. 

How does water pollution affect the activities on your list? 
What animals live near the water? 
How does water pollution affect them? 
How does recycling help prevent pollution?

 

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Environmental Health Information Service

Are the foods that you are eating safe for you??  

Check out this website and find out.  It has a listing of different articles that deal with food/air pollution.  

There is even an article about the toys that you play with.  

Do toys have some sort of pollution on them?

 

Environment On-Line

Do you agree that protecting the environment is important?  Why or why not?

This site will help you find your answer. Click on "Climate Change" to learn about the greenhouse effect.  Click on "Energy" to learn about oil and gas used for energy. 

What do you think would happen to Kuwait if all the big countries in the world decided to stop using gas? 

Click on "Ozone Depletion" to find out what the ozone layer is and what is happening to it. Click on "Water" to learn about the water cycle and more.  

Mad Scientist Network

Are you full of questions about the environment?  

You will find over 12,000 questions and answers here about science.  

Do you think the oil fires from the war with Iraq polluted Kuwait's environment?  

Click on "Network MAD Search" to get some help with this question.  Where it says "Keywords" you need to type in "oil,fires,Kuwait".  You could also try "pollution" to help you with some other questions.  

How do pesticides contribute to water pollution? 

Click on the circle below the Keyword box that says "All".  Then go to "Options".  Where it says "Search files in:" click on the words "Environment/Ecology".  Then click on "At grade level:" and choose 4-6.  Then click on "submit query". You will see many choices.  Click on the blue ones to read the information you want. 

You can also check out the MadSci Library for more information. Click on Environment/Ecology.

 

Environmental Effects of the Oil Fires

This is a response to an email question I sent to the EPA Web site. It will give you general information about the environmental effects of the oil fires in Kuwait.

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ASK AN EXPERT:

If you haven’t already submitted a question to an expert, choose one of these sites to write a question to an online expert.  Make sure you include your name, grade level, and a good description of your question.

 

http://www.sciam.com/askexpert/index.cfm?subject=environment

http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/GG/ASK/askanerd.html  

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