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http://zerofootprint.net/youth/neew This website asks kids a series of questions and then generates a report that tells kids what their environmental footprint is compares it to national averages.

Lots of resources about resources can be found at; http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/education/mad.htm

Many different plans for building solar ovens at http://solarcooking.org/plans/default.htm. Sherry Dibari at Workman has used the solar funnel with success and challenges students to reach double the air temperature that day.

Corrine Griswold from RCNS found this website http://www.gould.edu.au/foodwebs/kids_web.htm that allows kids to build several food webs by dragging and dropping. Here is a worksheet she made to use with the website-

Here is a set of food web cards for the local desert they are in powerpoint form. To make cards, print them as handouts, two to a page; A good vocabulary format that takes prior-knowledge into account A cool Origami project from Amy M. that uses info from [|biome info]

A lesson using Google Earth to connect climates to biomes [|Google Earth Biome lesson]