April 15, 2015
21 Great Websites and Apps for Earth Day
April 22nd is Earth Day. Celebrate it with your students by letting them visit these websites:
- Breathing Earth
- Breathing Earth YouTube Video–of CO2 use, population changes, and more
- Conservation Game
- Earth day collection
- Earth Day—NASA Ocean Currents
- Eco-friendly house
- Eeko World
- Ecotourism Simulation–for grades 4 and above
- Electrocity
- Footprint calculator
- Home of the Future
- My Garbology
- NASA City
If you’re looking for apps, try these:
- Brain Cafe GeoQuiz
- Green Genie
- Green Kitchen
- Green Power Battery Saver
- iRecycle
- Peerby–borrow from your neighbors
- SOLARCHECKER
- UNEP Carbon Calculator
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 webmaster for six blogs, CSG Master Teacher, an Amazon Vine Voice book reviewer, Editorial Review Board member for Journal for Computing Teachers, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, a columnist for Examiner.com, and a weekly contributor to TeachHUB. Currently, she’s editing a techno-thriller that should be out to publishers next summer.
