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• - Looks at sustainability with a focus on the three R's: reducing, reusing, and recycling. Includes a club, games, and news.
  
• - Provides young children information on the environment while playing games and having fun. Maintained by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
  
• - For kids interested in the environment, and in having fun. Includes games and features about salmon and wildlife, hazardous substances, recycling, and choosing recycled products.
  
• - Looks at a variety of issues related to the environment, including topics such as air, food, energy, water, population, and waste.
  
• - Tells kids what they can to do protect the environment.
  
• - Live sounds of nature broadcasted 24 hours a day from Idyllwild, California.
  
• - More than a dozen interactive studies related to the environment. For middle and high school students. Includes teacher guides for classroom use.
  
• - Discover the nature in different ecosystems with World Book Cyber Camp.
  
• - Captain Earthworm, Captain Redbird, and Captain Bluegill present information about recycling, pollution, and tips for keeping the environment healthy. Includes activities.
  
• - Looks at the need to protect the environment as well as the challenges involved. Focuses on the importance of preserving history, conserving natural resources for future use, and developing earth-friendly habits.
  
• - Ten ways that kids can protect nature. Also features challenge activities kids can do at home, as well as subject links.
  
• - Features environmental games, science, puzzles, and research information.
  
• - Environmental education by kids for kids.
  
• - A non-profit organization which helps young people learn about animals, plants, ecology, and nature centers. Site also provides a forum for people to share their creative ideas and knowledge of the environment.
  
• - From air pollution to energy, learn more about the world in which you live through games, poems, stories, and ask-an-expert.
  
• - Discusses air quality, acid rain, global warming and ozone depletion. From Manchester Metropolitan University. In English and French.
  
• - Provides environmental basics, club projects, careers, internships, youth awards, fun activities and information on ecosystems, air, water conservation, waste and recycling, human health and neighborhood projects. Also has teachers' site.
  
• - Tiki looks at the mess people have made of our planet. He suggests how kids can help make things better for all of us.
  
• - Information on many aspects of water, along with pictures, data, maps, and an interactive center where you can give opinions and test your water knowledge.
  
• - Every 8 weeks, Maggie is sent on a "Mission Impossible" style adventure that teaches kids about the environment. Each mission features an 8-minute cartoon with music, games, gadgets, and factual content. Requires Flash plug-in.
  
• - Examines how people's shopping habits can affect the planet. Includes interactive quiz.
  
• - An educational web site about earth ecology, plant and animal life, and wildlife.
  
• - Describes how five properties of water can be measured to determine its quality. With experiments, pre- and post-tests.
  
• - Useful information about the planet we live in including wild animals and human evolution. Curious facts and news. Younger kids can use some extra guidance.
  
• - Play games, go on a virtual tour and meet Ranger Rick in this fun website.
  
• - FAQ about the world's oil supply.
  
• - EcoMan is an eco-friendly superhero who saves the world from the polluter, McEvil. Written in comic strip style.
  
• - Identifies threats to the environment and tells what people can do to make a difference. Includes related links.
  
• - A site where kids can learn about the amazing diversity of nature and find educational games, puzzles, projects and downloads.
  
• - Travel alongside World Wildlife Fund scientists as they journey into remote and exotic locales to learn more about the most precious and varied ecosystems.
  
• - Four different environmental online web-quests for students to be involved in. Students get to complete online challenges, learning about caring for the environment.
  
• - Offers environmental news, issues, quizzes, facts, and links in a kid-friendly setting. Also provides information for parents and teachers.
  
• - Maurice the Mountain Goat and Lisa the Lynx introduce kids to the fascinating world of trees. Visitors can explore tree biology and conservation, as well as track the impact of trees on weather.
  
• - Examines the environmental importance of the Great Lakes, the species that inhabit them, their climate and atmosphere, and the waters themselves.
  
• - Provides young people with a forum for exchanging idea on protecting the environment.
  
• - From the Centre for Environmental Education (CEE), kRg offers educational activities and games about many aspects of the environment. Also offers crafts and a theme of the month.
  
• - Interactive online magazine by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Designed for children in grades 4-8.
  
• - Preschoolers through teenagers will find great ways they can help take care of the earth.
  
• - Information and activities for students and teachers on papermaking, recycling, forestry, trees, paper crafts, careers, and the environment.
  
• - A site for those interested in animals and the natural world around them; has wild life facts, games and competitions. Produced by the BBC Natural History Unit.
  
• - New site promoting environmentally friendly activities. Includes links.
  
• - Games, puzzles, and hands-on activities that help protect the environment. From the National Safety Council.
  
• - Information on creating wildlife areas at home or school. Support for teachers with direct links to the National Curriculum, and encouragement for younger people to think about wildlife in a responsible yet fun way.
  
• - A student's personal site designed to teach its visitors about the science behind the earth. Includes environmental science, biology, Christianity, interactive quiz, and author bio.
  
• - Learn about the environment from Elsa. Includes coloring pages,newsletter, fan club, and banner exchange.
  
• - Indian online children's magazine for ecology. Read nature notes, tales, about culture, plants, animals, environmentalists, endangered and extinct species.
  
• - Learn about this wildlife sanctuaries all over the work, including information on the animals.
  
• - From the American Museum of Natural History, a definition of biodiversity, virtual tours of biodiversity in different locations, tips for helping biodiversity, and a reading list.
  
• - Interactive games based on the waterways. Includes links and school pages. Some portions require free registration.
  
• - Fun activities and extras exploring nature and the environment.
  
• - Drinking water experiments for kids and teachers, printable activities, and links.
  
• - Help Iz and Auggie solve a series of ecological problems happening on Planet Small by finding similar, real-life examples on Earth.
  
• - An elementary or junior high experiment. Students can see for themselves the effects of a greenhouse, and relate this to what occurs in the atmosphere. From the Franklin Institute Science Museum.
  
• - Clear explanations of erosion, deposition, and other coastal features. With photos and glossary. Includes section for teachers.
  
• - Information written for young people and teachers on environmental issues.
  
• - Offers two downloadable videos from Environment Canada, one on protecting wildlife and one on protecting water.
  
• - National non-profit youth organization empowers kids to help solve local environmental problems.
  
• - Multilingual environmental magazine with activities and interactive games.
  
• - Includes definitions, types, habitat, benefits, literature, locations, careers, and ideas about how to save wetlands.
  
• - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's site for kids. Lots of fun and interesting things to read and do to learn about the environment.
  
• - Fun activities, information and links.
  
• - A children's interactive web site about the environment, with card games, a free recycle kit to print, coloring book, and lots of interesting facts.
  
• - Flag design competition by children aged 5 to 19, from Norway, Switzerland and countries in the European Union. Includes illustrations of winning projects.
  
• - Detailed guide explains what energy is and where it comes from.
  
• - Nature study basics, with an emphasis on backyard plants and animals. Includes a section on naming and classification, list making, and "why bother with nature?"
  
• - Features interactive entertainment and education with games, puzzles, jokes, and cartoons designed to help kids discover cool things about nature, science and ecology.
  
• - Explores the enormous variety of life on the Earth.
  
• - Provides environmentally educative games, stories, a picture gallery, calendar of events, contests, and facts about Earth's environment.