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How Stuff Works: Earth Day
Extend your Earth Day involvement with practical things everyone can do.
Grade Level: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12


http://people.howstuffworks.com/earth-day.htm

	CONTENT: This Earth Day site from How Stuff Works offers parents and teachers fun ideas and eco friendly projects and activities for children and simple ways to explain environmental issues to them.
	SITE DESIGN: These pages are part of the larger “How Stuff Works” site. It is well organized with links to the Earth Day resources grouped on the opening page. The site is also fully searchable. Users will have to contend with advertisements.
	REVIEW: Extend your Earth Day celebration with these resources from “How Stuff Works.” Teachers and parents will lots of information and ready to use resources such as the l0 Things You Can Do: Save the Earth that list little things that everyone can do each day to make a less harmful impact on the environment. Included is a crossword puzzle that can be used in the classroom to test your Earth Day knowledge. The featured article “How the Earth Works” gives simple explanations for power and light, night and day, the atmosphere and the water cycle, ozone and the Big Bang and more. Several other articles address such questions as How does global warming work? What is the greenhouse effect?, If the Polar ice caps melt, how much would the oceans rise?, and How does composting work?. Additionally, environmentally related videos are available that show how electric and hybrid cars work as well as alternative fuels.
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04/30/2007