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Earth Day Internet activities abound for kids
April 21, 1998
Web posted at: 9:56 p.m. EDT (0156 GMT)By Environmental News Network staff
(ENN) -- With the return of Earth Day, people around the world are taking a closer look at the planet and taking time to recognize the issues and problems our environment is up against. Children especially are celebrating the event, both in and out of school. This year the Internet is filled with fun and educational sites to help interested kids participate in Earth Day.
The Earth Day Challenge is designed to challenge students to answer questions about the environment while visiting many good environmental sites around the Web. It aims to challenge them to become aware of the importance of protecting our planet and to do their part in helping to preserve it.
The Earth Day Challenge houses a fun scavenger hunt for kids K-6 in a classroom setting. By clicking on questions, kids get a list of sites to visit to find the answers. When all the answers have been collected, the kids send them into the site. Participants can win CD-ROMs that celebrate the beauty of nature. The CD-ROMs will be awarded on Earth Day.
The Happy Earth Day Coloring Book web site offers visitors a downloadable 11-page coloring book. The coloring book contains Earth-friendly tips and activities as well as pictures.
Earth Day groceries appeared on the Internet in 1997. Last year thousands of school children from 315 schools decorated more than 121,000 paper grocery bags to celebrate Earth Day and increase environmental awareness. The bags were passed out (filled with groceries) to shoppers at grocery stores on Earth Day. The site has guidelines and ideas on how to get local stores involved.
National Wildlife Week's Cyberfest is an online educational event created for students and teachers who want to learn about the environment and become stewards of nature, caring for the land and all the living things with which we share the land.
Cyberfest is designed to help you integrate fun and exciting Internet-based activities into your traditional environmental education, environmental service-learning, and Earth Day celebrations, by providing classroom activities and interactive fun focused on the natural world. Interested users can register for access.
And for kids interested in trees, A World Community of Old Trees houses a tree gallery where users can leaf through artists' current images of ancient trees and even add their own, a tree museum to explore the roots of the tree image as it appears throughout art history, and even tree talk, a place to talk back.
Copyright 1998, Environmental News Network, All Rights Reserved
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- Earth Day Challenge
- Happy Earth Day Coloring Book
- Earth Day Groceries Project 1998
- Cyberfest: The online celebration of National Wildlife Week
- A World Community of Old Trees-Eco-Art Project in Progress
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