This page contains a variety of activities and information for teachers and students in grades K-12.
Air Quality Index for Kids! - U.S. EPA and your state environmental agency measure pollution in the air. Then they use the Air Quality Index, or AQI, to tell the people about the air. An index can be a quick way to tell people how good or bad something is. The AQI uses colors, numbers and words to tell you about the air.
EPA's Environmental Explorers' Club - Welcome to the Explorers Club -- U.S. EPA's Web site for kids. Get ready to explore your environment and learn about neat things you can do to protect it. There are games, pictures, stories and other fun things.
EPA's Kids Fish Web site -- EPA's National Fish Advisory Program released a Fish Kids Web site, a fun Web site that uses interactive stories and games to teach kids ages 8-12 about contaminants in fish and fish advisories.
Middle School Acid Rain Lesson Plan - The National Park Service Air Resources Division, in an effort to increase the public's awareness of air quality issues, has developed a series of five activities for elementary and secondary schools. The activities are for grades six through eight and help teach students about acid rain. The lesson plan was prepared as a part of The Uplands Field Research Laboratory, Volunteer in Parks and Interpretation of Science Project. Funding was provided by the Great Smoky Mountains Natural History Association.
NC Air Awareness Kids' Page - The North Carolina Division of Air Quality presents the Air Avenger!
Smog City - Build an understanding of air pollution with this interactive game showing the effect of weather, population and types of pollution sources.
The Smoginator's Air Base - Meet the Smoginator -- champion of clean air, faster than a streak of lightning and more powerful than the Terminator when it comes to outsmarting his arch-rival Smogzilla. The Smoginator is a new and smarter comic book superhero. Instead of ray guns and other weaponry, Smoginator uses education and his wits as weapons against the "enemies" of clean air.
Kids C.A.V.E. - Virginia Department of Environmental Quality's Web site has fun and educational pages for students related to air quality. It also contains interesting air lessons for teachers as well as links to other related sites.
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Other Cool Environmental Links
Best Environmental Web Sites for Kids - Berit's best sites for children lists a thousand top-notch fun and educational sites.
Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids - Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids is a service of the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO). Ben's Guide serves as the educational component of GPO Access, GPO's service to provide the official online version of legislative and regulatory information. This site provides learning tools for K-12 students, parents and teachers. These resources will teach how our government works, the use of the primary source materials of GPO Access, and how one can use GPO Access to carry out their civic responsibilities. And, just as GPO Access provides locator services to U.S. Government sites, Ben's Guide provides a similar service to U.S. Government Web sites developed for kids.
- Kids for Saving Earth provides free, inspiring, environmental education curriculum by mail and online. Conservation, endangered species, rainforests, forests, toxic waste sites, health issues and many more ecological concerns are covered on this Web site. Earth day should be every day.
Kids Corner - Rainforest Action Network - This Web site offers an Activists' Corner with tools and resources for activists, and a Kids' Corner with action alerts and rainforest-related activities for kids.
Yahooligans - This Web site is a search engine for environmental Web sites for kids.
