April Facts Internet Activity 2
Directions: Click on the link to go to a web site with the answer to the question. Once you find it, try using the History feature, of your browser, to return to this web page. If the link is broken, use your online research skills to get the answer(s).
1. Write 4 reasons to harness solar power. Solar videos online
a.
b.
c.
d.
How does net metering impact an electric consumer? (look it up)
2. You want to connect to a web site you have bookmarked.
But instead, you get a 404 message.
Enter two reasons
for getting the 404 message.
a.
b.
What can you do to relocate the missing web page?
3. What are Extremophiles?
Give an example of one and the habitat it needs to survive.
4. Considering an "out of this world" exploration? Why
not visit Europa?
What are three of Europa's interesting characteristics?
5. The
Exxon Valdez was one of the worst environmental disasters in the history
of the U.S.A.
What are some of the damages caused by the disaster?
6. Calculate the No Man is an Island problem.
7. Use your online research skills to answer the following questions for your state or for your county.
Population
Area
Air quality
Water quality
Top elected official's title, name, term in office.
8. Use the 2005 #1 Word of the Year in a sentence.
9. April is Poetry month. According to this poem, who does not want to go to school?
10. Many people consider the song of bluebirds a sign of spring.
Explore the Bluebirds Project.
Are people altricial or precocial?
11.The poem, The Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson recalls a famed act in American history.
Explain the story of the act that was taken.
12. Lose your Excuse website
Identify one way your school or home is using energy wisely.
What is one way that you use energy wisely?
Extend you effort: Make an energy saving ad
Extras:
Visit the Cafe - Do the Have-A-Bite activity | Explore Smithsonian Kids
Select an element of the Periodic Table. How important is it to you? Do you need it or use every day?
Geometry 3D Shapes - Interactives
Observation Science Skills Builders | Fields, Meadows & Fencerows EcoStudy Unit
Explore Science videos at DFTV - check it out and then do a Try It
Listen to: Digging For The 'Prime' Jewels Of Numbers
It is unnecessary to repeat the same old mistake when you can make so many interesting new ones. - Bertrand Russell
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