Headbone Derby: Ecology Strikes Back!
"Don’t let the comic strip format fool you into thinking you’ll not learn anything here! Iz and Auggie need your help with a series of ecological problems on Planet Small. Using all the resources of the Internet, you’ll search to find answers to important questions ("Which animals are indigenous to Australia?") to guide the Yamquats of Planet Small to a solution. Improve your Internet searching skills as you use the Yahoo! directory which is integrated into the game. The Derby is divided into seven episodes to make it easier to play over several sessions."
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Hawaii: Born of Fire
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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Going Places: Fall Colors
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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Girl Scouts: Acid Rain
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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Get to Know our Ocean Planet
"Since its launch into orbit in August 1992, the TOPEX/Poseidon satellite has mapped 95% of the ocean’s surface topography, noting liquid hills and valleys. From its vantage point 826 miles above us, TOPEX/Poseidon can measure sea surface height within two inches. The birth of El Niño can be seen in Pacific Ocean snapshots from the fall of 1994 that show both increases and decreases in normal sea height."
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Garbage
""If your habits resemble those of average Americans, you contributed 1,570 pounds of solid trash, 23 tons of hazardous waste, and 3,613 pounds of sewage to the world’s waste this past year." Twenty-three tons of hazardous waste? That’s 126 pounds of hazardous waste a day. Amazed? Find out which household items need special disposal (and which can be tossed in your regular trash) in the informative, interactiveHazardous Waste quiz. Or try your hand at solving the problem of an overflowing landfill. In theShrinking a Landfill exercise (on the Global Efforts page), your goal is to reduce waste by 10 percent with a budget of $50,000. Can you do it?"
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Gallery of Mineral Photographs
"These awesome mineral photos literally jump off the screen with clarity and color. The rocks are placed on black glass, lit with two fifty-watt flood halogen bulbs, photographed with a Sony digital camera and then edited to give them a colorful halo. "All specimens in this gallery sold and no longer available. Many customers request to see what they have missed, so the best are presented here for your review.""
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Funschool Protect our Environment
Reviewed March 27, 2000 12 years old from Kansas who is not affiliated with the site. Clean up the river by dragging the garbarge into the recycling bins.
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Foliage Vermont
"The experts in Vermont are expecting the usual display of fall colors to be affected by this year’s drought and heat. With the additional stresses of car exhaust and other environment hazards, trees on busy roads will be most affected. So if you are visiting, get off the highways and into the woods for the best show of color. For virtual visitors, recommended clicks are Leaves 1 and Leaves 2 (from Alder to Yellow Birch), Picture of the Day, and the free animated fall foliage screen saver."
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Florida Aquarium
"Feel free to tap on the glass as you enjoy your virtual visit to Tampa Bay’snewest attraction. The aquarium habitats are themed around the life cycle of adrop of water that begins in a spring, flows though the Cypress Swamp, past theMangrove Forest, out to the beaches, by the coral reef and finally flowsoffshore. Explore each habitat’s unique inhabitants through photographs, textand audio files. Hats off to the Florida Aquarium for a great online tour!"
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