The CSMEE Earth Day Companion

Exploring the Environment

 
Backyards
School Grounds
Activities
Research Projects

Backyards

Backyard Wildlife Habitat
Practical guidelines for developing a wildlife habitat in your backyard, provided by the National Wildlife Federation.
 
Garden of the Millennium
A column from the San Diego Earth Times.

School Grounds

Schoolyard Wildlife Habitat
Practical guidelines for developing a habitat-based learning site on school grounds, provided by the National Wildlife Federation.

International School Grounds Day
Identifies publications and organizations that provide guidelines for developing school grounds to enhance education, along with ideas for connecting use of the grounds to the curriculum.

Activities

Earth Day Crafts
Simple crafts for very young children.

In Balance with Nature: The International Earth Day Activity
"A ten minute sensory ecology activity that induces personal and global support."

Marilyn's Imagination Factory
Offers imaginative ways to recycle by making art.

Earth Day CyberHunt
Questions lead to Websites of environmental projects.

Research Projects

The GLOBE Program
Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) is a worldwide network of students, teachers, and scientists working together to study and understand the global environment.
 
Earth Day
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Dynamic Earth
Air, Water, & Soil
Endangered Species
Rainforests
Info Centers
Organizations
News & Issues
Zoos & Nature Centers

This webpage was last updated on 2/1/02.

For if one link in nature's chain might be lost,
another might be lost,
until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal.
-Thomas Jefferson