Environmental Issues Activities
Environmental issues are an ongoing concern in the news. They affect our Nation’s health, resources, politics and economic well being. For kids to learn the science behind environmental concerns will help them understand the issues and become more well-informed adults. The Environmental Issue Activities address present day environmental topics in a simple and comprehensive way.
Acid Rain Demonstration
Changing Ecosystems – Matching
Design a Low Impact House and Yard (6-8 Grade NGSS)
Environmental Disasters – Human Impacts on Earth Systems – Research and Report (6-8 Grade NGSS)
Finding Solutions to Human-made Acid Rain (6-8th Grade NGSS)
Global Warming Activity (Inquiry Based)
How Many Resources Do We Each Use? Critical Thinking (6-8 Grade NGSS)
Human Population and the Consumption of Resources – Construct an Argument (6-8 Grade NGSS)
Monitoring and Minimizing Acid Rain – Research and Report (6-8 Grade)
Our Role in Climate Change – Research and Report (6-8 Grade NGSS)
Recycling Game – Can it Be Recycled?
Reversing Climate Change – Research and Report (6-8 Grade)
Rotten Game – How Long Does it Take to Decompose?
Smog Alert! Activity – What Conditions Cause Smog to Form?
Will the Melting of the Polar Ice Caps Affect the Saltiness of the Ocean?
Related Visual Aids
Build a Giant Earth Day Poster
Keystone Species – The American Alligator – Mini-Poster
Protecting Coral Reefs – Mini-Poster
Related Activities:
Biodiversity – An Investigation
Biodiversity and Human Development – Critical Thinking (6-8th Grade NGSS)
Biodiversity Investigation Practice – Coral Reef
Biodiversity Investigation Practice – Deciduous Forest
Biodiversity – Matching
Biodiversity and Humans – Matching
Biomes and Climate – Matching
Comparing the Biodiversity of Different Habitats
Comparing Habitat Biodiversity – Matching
Ecosystem Changes – Define the Problem (6-8th Grade NGSS)
Earth Systems Interacting – Critical Thinking Activity
Earth Systems Matching
Earth Systems Matching – Desert Biome
Earth’s Systems Reading – Short Answer Quiz
Effects of Forest Fires – Vocabulary Cut and Paste
Energy Flow in an Ecosystem – Biomass Activity
Erosion Activity
Forest Fires and Animal Populations – Matching
Identifying Rocks
Keystone Species Descriptive Brochure – Performance Task
Landforms Word Search
Our Fragile Coral Reefs – Vocabulary Cut and Paste
Protecting Coral Reefs – Poster Making