Strand B: Human Impact on the environment

Students learn about the water treatment process as they complete a digital “escape room” on a Google site.

Insects and other animals that are pollinators of plants play an important role in ecosystems.

If I asked you to name a few things that all life on the planet couldn’t live without you could probably come up with some good answers, but I bet you’d never think to say dirt.

Mussels are a kind of invertebrate that filter food out of the water they live in. This makes them a great tool for monitoring environmental water quality and tracking bioaccumulation in aquatic food webs.

How do beef and dairy cows contribute to climate change? Livestock agriculture is a source of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.

Learn about how catalytic converters make vehicle emissions less harmful.

Acid rain is any precipitation that has an unusually low pH. It can be rain, snow, fog, etc. But what is a low pH and why is this a problem?

Explore the greenhouse effect and learn about the impacts it can have on the environment.

Explore how walking on soil changes how water soaks into the ground and why that matters to gardeners and farmers.

Can carbon offsets help you reduce your environmental footprint, practice sustainable living and fight climate change?