Aquation
We all need fresh water. Some parts of the world have lots of potable water. Some parts do not. Some have lots of resources for building pipelines and desalinization plants to get the water they need. Other places don’t have…
Earth Science
Updated on March 2, 2017
Kids can explore the earth – our environment, geology, cycles, patterns and change – with these free websites and apps. Many include interactives and games. For earth science projects, check out the article on Project Based Learning Science. For earth science fair projects, see the article on Top 100 Science Fair Projects.
Earthquake Hazards Program
This USGS website offers students of all ages opportunities to learn about earthquakes. For younger kids, their are earthquake games, puzzles, pictures and facts. For older students and any student looking for information, there are maps of earthquake patterns, strength,…
CK-12 Earth Science and Geology eBooks
The ck-12 Foundation offers several free digital textbooks – flexbooks – in Earth Science and geology for students in middle school and high school. You can read the textbooks online or download them to your ereader, with the Flexbook app…
Aurum Science Environmental Education Resources
This comprehensive ecoysystems course resources include powerpoint lectures, notes outlines, labs, classroom activities, and other teaching resources for an environmental science class. Topics include scientific principles, species, populations, communities, ecosystems, environmental toxins, food and agriculture, global climate change, air and…
Forestia
In this virtual game world, you are responsible for designing a sustainable boreal forest. The forest must provide lumber, as well as benefit the environment. The game has four stages and you get advice from different characters along the way.…
Poisoned Waters
From site: In Poisoned Waters, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith examines the growing hazards to human health and the ecosystem. “The ’70s were a lot about, ‘We’re the good guys; we’re the environmentalists; we’re going to go after the polluters,’…
Earth Floor
From site: Sixty-five million years ago the Earth was not the way we know it. Where now an ocean ebbs and flows, the Earth supported land plateaus. The land upon which you now stride was underneath an ocean’s tide. And…
What You Need to Know About Energy
From site: As debates about energy grow more intense, Americans need dependable, objective, and authoritative energy information. The National Academies, advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine, provide the facts about energya complex issue that affects us as…
Cycles of the Earth
From site: Our planet is constantly changing. Natural cycles balance and regulate Earth and its atmosphere. Human activities can cause changes to these natural cycles. Life on Earth is well adapted to our planets cycles. In our solar system, Earth…
Extreme Earth
From site: Welcome to the Earth Science portal on Extreme Science! This is the place to find information on world records in earth science and geological formations and to also read about key science concepts in the earth sciences, such…
Earth – Our World in Motion
Learn about the earth’s layers, composition, plate tectonics, rocks and minerals, and gravity. Do some fun activities and experiments, like growing rock candy, creating a compass and making earth stationary.
Minerals by Name
From site: Amethyst Galleries’ Mineral Gallery describes over 600 mineral species (and varieties) and more than 5000 specimens (see our new specimens last updated 09-Feb-2009, and What’s New last updated 03-Feb-2009), together with several ways of accessing these descriptions. The…
Mineralogy 4 Kids
Mineralogy 4 Kids, the Rockin Internet Site, is the BEST place to learn about rocks and minerals. Enter mineralogy to learn about minerals in your house, mineral groups, mineral properties, all about crystals, and play some mineral games.Get all the…
Green Teacher’s Resources
From site: Go Green – The Database. Explore our ever-expanding trove of environmentally conscious teaching tools. Search for lesson plans, Web sites, and educational resources by topic, grade level, cost, or location, or add your resource.
Planetary Boundaries
From site: As climate negotiators heading for the Copenhagen meeting seek a new agreement to stem global warming, the journal Nature has published a study describing eight more fundamental limits on a healthy planet. Exceeding any of the “planetary boundaries”…