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Student Online Tools

These are great web sites designed for students which they can use to research and explore how we can go-green.

The Big Blue Bus - Kid's Corner

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Learn about water and how to protect it at the Small Fry Club for those under 7.

CleanSweep Comics

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Interactive, informational comics on waste management, litter prevention, and beautification. An Educator’s section has downloadable lesson plans. (for grades 6-8)

E.P.A. Kids Club

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“Explore [the] environment and learn how to protect it. We've got games, pictures, and stories.” *Requires Adobe Reader, Flash, QuickTime, and Shockwave software plug-ins. (for grades K-12)

Kids Saving Energy

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Games, interactive tips, and facts for kids who want to save energy. (for grades K-12)

On Earth

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OnEarth is “an award-winning environmental magazine, explores politics, nature, wildlife, culture, science, health, the challenges that confront our planet, and the solutions that promise to heal and protect it.” Resources include podcasts, articles, videos, interactive maps, and a blog, Greenlight. (for grades 6-12)

Pinellas County Utilities Website

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Pinellas County Utilities' website helps kids learn about recycling, reducing waste, and saving water with interactive links to songs, activity books and games. (for grades K-4)

Scholastic’s Act Green

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Discover ways to change your routine to make the world a greener place. (for grades K-12)

Try Science

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“A gateway to experience the excitement of contemporary science and technology through on and offline interactivity with science and technology centers worldwide.” Resources include thematic interactive experiences, hands-on activities, online field trips to science centers world-wide, short polls and news links based on topic questions, and live web cams from science and technology centers world-wide. (for grades 6-8, 9-12)

This "Go Green" resource was developed by Buddy for an eco-education initiative, "Green Connections: Learning and Living." This initiative will run from February 1 through Earth Day on April 22, 2009.

This resource appeared in the ETC...and More! volume 2, number 5 newsletter and is published by the Buddy Project (Corporation for Educational Technology), in collaboration with the Hoosier Educational Computer Coordinators (HECC), Indiana Computer Educators (ICE), the Indiana Department of Education, and Promoting Achievement through Technology and INstruction for all Students (PATINS).