April 17, 2013
12 Great Websites for Earth Day
April 22nd is Earth Day. Celebrate it with your students by letting them visit these six websites:
- Breathing Earth
- Breathing Earth YouTube Video–of CO2 use, population changes, and more
- Conservation Game
- Environmental footprintEco-friendly houseEeko WorldBreathing earth– the environmentConservation GameHome of the FutureMy Garbology
- Ecotourism Simulation–for grades 4 and above
- EekoWorld
- Electrocity
- Eyes on the Earth–from NASA
- Footprint calculator
- Home of the Future
- My Garbology
- NASA City
Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 15 years. She is the editor of a K-8 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum, and creator of technology training books for how to integrate technology in education. She is the author of the popular Building a Midshipman, the story of her daughter’s journey from high school to United States Naval Academy. She is webmaster for six blogs, CSG master teacher, an Amazon Vine Voice book reviewer, Editorial Review Board member for Journal for Computing Teachers, presentation reviewer for CSTA, Cisco guest blogger, a monthly contributor to TeachHUB, columnist for Examiner.com, featured blogger for Technology in Education, and IMS tech expert. Currently, she’s editing a techno-thriller that should be out to publishers next summer. Contact Jacqui at her writing office or her tech lab, Ask a Tech Teacher.
