Virtual Field Trips
Internet Tool
This Web site is a virtual field trip to the desert. Virtual field trips are an excellent way to get the class there without actually going anywhere.

Tales
Project Tool
 This Web site contains many different sites contributed by real teachers discussing projects that they use in their classrooms.  The projects range from finding too much CO2 in the air at a school to measuring the earth’s magnetism at different locations.

The Sun Times
Project Tool
Teachers can have their students participate in the site project that allows students to measure the temperature, record the number of minutes of sunlight per day over a predetermined week, and determine their global coordinates.

 Academy Curricular Exchange Columbia Education Center Science
Content Resource
This site includes an ecological observation activity. This activity would be used to implement higher order thinking skills.

Forest in a Jar
Lesson Plans
In this activity, students will be able to see in miniature how a swampy area can be succeeded by a forested habitat.  This site includes a  lesson plan and the curricular objectives that are included for this project.

Science Lesson Plans and Resources
Lesson Plans
This page provides links to lesson plans and resources for all grade levels and all science areas typically taught in K-12 schools.  All areas of environmental science can be found in this Web page.

Acid Rain
Content Resource
This particular site is about acid rain, and it includes great information about this topic while utilizing higher order thinking skills.

Wonderful World of Weather
Content Resource
This site allows students to investigate weather locally and in other plances around the world.  Printable lesson plans are available for each section for the teacher.

Weather WebQuest
Content Resource
This site provides other Web resources and worksheets to print.  Weather information can be accessed locally or nationwide through this site.

Power Point Presentation on Pollution
Internet Tool
This is a power point presentation on environmental science. It is in a question answer format.