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ESA21 offers over 40 activities that engage students in a variety of environmental topics. The activities rely on a mixture of hands-on, field and Web-based experiences that give students a deeper understanding of the issues. Topic areas include: air, environmental science basics, the biosphere, earth, energy, home life and pollution.

The EPA Web site is extensive, comprising more than 300 homepages and between one and two million pages of HTML text and PDF files. The Browse EPA Topics feature is an efficient tool to navigate through Web site content. Search results include basic information, pertinent laws and educational resources relating to that topic.

Encourage your students to develop reading comprehension skills with Earth Gauge Climate Fact sheets and backgrounders. Students learn the basics of how climate and weather systems work, how changes in climate impact them and what scientists are doing to learn more.

This free, multi-disciplinary, hands-on curriculum from The Keystone Center encompasses many subject areas including biology, earth science, chemistry, physics and ecology as well as language arts, math and social studies.

The University of Minnesota has partnered with National Geographic to develop this innovate GIS mapping tool for educators. This website will help teachers use real data to convey how decisions are made and better understand geographical impacts on society.

This lesson, created by the Earth Day Network specifically for EE Week will have students begin with a water audit pre-lesson to determine their own personal water usage. They will then learn how water's physical properties and chemical composition are essential to life on Earth.

This website developed by The Encyclopedia of Earth contains a full AP Environmental Science course complete with lessons and topics. After taking this course, students will understand ecological hierarchy, appreciate natural processes that govern the natural world, and understand the importance of sustaining a biosphere for the betterment of humanity.

This lesson introduces students to the photoelectric effect (the basic physical phenomenon underlying the operation of photovoltaic cells) and the role of quanta of various frequencies of electromagnetic energy in producing it.

The purpose of this lesson is for students to calculate stoichiometrically the amount of carbon dioxide that would be emitted from burning a mole of various alkanes that comprise fossil fuels. If the energy released from burning a mole of these alkanes is known, then the amount of carbon dioxide emitted per unit of energy produced can be determined.

The purpose of this lesson is to introduce students to the chemical consequences of burning fossil fuels. The underlying theme is that fossil fuel combustion leads to the formation of oxides of three nonmetals: carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur.