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Science Topics
Lists of web sites categorized by subject areas within science.
Pollution
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Garbage: how can my community reduce waste?
 ENC Digital Dozen Site
Date: 2004 Grade(s): 7 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 012166
This World Wide Web (WWW) site is an online exhibit that explores the effects of garbage on the environment and suggests some actions that visitors can take to reduce, reuse, and recycle waste in their own communities. The site contains a series of articles that discuss landfills and solid wastes, hazardous wastes, and sewage.
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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Geography action!: rivers 2001
ENC Digital Dozen Site
Date: 2001 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 020497
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, created by the National Geographic Society and the Coca-Cola Company, for grades K-12, features an annual conservation and awareness program designed to educate people about our natural, cultural and historic treasures. This year Geography Awareness Week runs from November 11th to the 17th, and features the topic of rivers.
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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EnviroMapper storefront
Featured in ENC Focus
Date: 2002 Grade(s): 6 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 024771
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, developed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), features an interactive mapping tool for users to map areas of environmental pollution and regulation throughout the country. Maps can be drawn at the county, city, or national level, as well as with landmarks, so that environmental information is presented within the context of surrounding communities.
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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Drinking water kids' stuff
ENC Digital Dozen Site
Date: 2002 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 017789
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water, has resources to help students in grade K to 12 learn more about drinking water. It contains sections with games and activities, experiments, and health information.
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council
ENC Digital Dozen Site
Date: 2004 Grade(s): 3 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 013957
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, created by Applied Microsystems, Inc. and supported by the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council, provides information about the impact of the oil spill, the status of recovery of injured resources and services and information about ongoing restoration and research activities.
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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Oceanography: an ONR science and technology focus site
ENC Digital Dozen Site
Date: 2000 Grade(s): 6 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 016781
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by the US Office of Naval Research for students and teachers, contains information about the ocean and its inhabitants. The site is divided into sections that describe and explain the composition and motion in ocean water, the marine regions and habitats, and marine mammals.
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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Lichens, tardigrades, and SO2
ENC Digital Dozen Site
Date: 1997 Grade(s): 6 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 024685
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, part of the Kansas Collaborative Research Network (KANCRN), features an investigation designed to monitor the degree of sulfur dioxide pollution in the air by tracking the distribution and diversity of lichens and the density of organisms living on lichens. The network offers a variety of online collaborative research projects that guide students through the scientific inquiry process.
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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The Stream Study
ENC Digital Dozen Site
Date: 1999 Grade(s): 6 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 016496
This World Wide Web (WWW) site describes the STREAM STUDY project, part of the SAVE OUR STREAMS program. The program was founded in 1969 and is one of several environmental initiatives overseen by the ISAAC WALTON LEAGUE OF AMERICA.
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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Estuary-Net Project
ENC Digital Dozen Site
Date: 1997 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 018294
This World Wide Web (WWW) site has background information and activities as part of the Estuary-Net Project's mission to assist citizen volunteer water quality monitors, classroom teachers, and students in understanding regional water quality issues. Estuary-Net is a telecommunications project that supports the development of coastal non point source pollution education programs.
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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Oceanography from the space shuttle
ENC Digital Dozen Site
Date: 1996 Grade(s): 5 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 028266
This web site, produced by NASA, contains a collection of photographs, taken from the Space Shuttle, that detail oceanographic processes and features ranging from deltas and sea breezes to waves and oil slicks. Photographs taken when the sun's light reflects off of the water reveals processes and phenomena that would otherwise remain unobserved.
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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Explorer Team
ENC Digital Dozen Site
Date: 1996 Grade(s): 5 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 004500
This World Wide Web (WWW) site was developed by the Explorer Team, a group of students at Clarke Middle School in Lexington, Massachusetts who have been working on an interdisciplinary interactive Internet project about Spectacle Island. This project, Reclaiming Spectacle Island is part of a larger study called The Big Dig Project, a transportation project to build tunnels through Boston Harbor.
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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Live from Earth and Mars
ENC Digital Dozen Site
Date: 1997 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 010772
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, designed for students in grades K to 12 and sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), provides data, background information, and activities that can be used to study Mars and compare it to Earth. Comparison data is available for various aspects of climate such as temperature, atmospheric pressure, and winds as well as a comparison of the physical factors like size, day length, and atmosphere content.
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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Scorecard
ENC Digital Dozen Site
Date: 1998 Grade(s): K - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 013209
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), is a chemical information service provided to give people, organizations, and communities the facts they need to protect their health and to raise an effective voice in public forums. The site contains detailed information on more than 5,000 chemicals, including the chemicals used in large amounts in the United States and regulated under major environmental laws.
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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EnviroLink: the online environmental community
Featured in ENC Focus ENC Digital Dozen Site
Date: 1995 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 004053
This World Wide Web (WWW) site is a collaborative effort among educators in grades K to 12, the EnviroLink Network (EEN), and the environmental community to bring environmental education online in a multimedia format. In addition to acting as a clearinghouse of environmental education materials, the EEN offers live, over the Internet, video conferences, chat rooms for real time discussion, access to real time environmental data, an environmental library, and links to information from hundreds of nonprofit organizations.
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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National Park Service
Featured in ENC Focus
Date: 1996 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 011498
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, suitable for students in grades K to 12 and a service of the National Park Service (NPS), allows access to information about all of the National Parks in the United States and describes their programs and services. Many of the parks provide teaching materials that may be used on a field trip to the park or in the classroom.
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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Reef Education Network (REN)
Featured in ENC Focus ENC Digital Dozen Site
Date: 1997 Grade(s): 4 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 011499
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, suitable for students in grades 4 to 12, is a compendium of information concerning reefs and their ecology. Extensive information is provided on the origins of reefs including mass extinctions, stromatolites, and the rise and fall of sea levels as well as the types of reefs such as atolls, fringing, and platform reefs.
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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Ocean planet
Featured in ENC Focus ENC Digital Dozen Site
Date: 1995 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 003412
This World Wide Web (WWW) site focuses on the conservation of the world's oceans through the study and understanding of environmental issues affecting the health of the oceans. Included is a map of the exhibition of the Ocean Planet Exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History.
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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Vehicle emissions
Date: 2004 Grade(s): 7 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 101228
Air pollution in the United States is a major problem; transportation plays a major role in air pollution. This informational piece, part of a series about the future of energy, provides students with data on pollution caused by vehicles.
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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Superfund for students and teachers: information for those in the classroom
Date: 2003 Grade(s): 5 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 015062
This World Wide Web (WWW) site, developed for grades K and up, offers environmental curriculum resources to help teachers introduce students the Superfund Program. The Superfund Program, administered by the U.S.
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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Greenpeace
Date: 2004 Grade(s): 7 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 015429
This World Wide Web (WWW) site contains current articles and information provided by Greenpeace sources. One article currently on the site deals with the Gerber corporation ceasing to use genetically engineered products as a result of product testing and pressure from Greenpeace.
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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