Category: Environment
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C in the Trees: Junk in the trunks
Hug a tree and what do you get? Splinters from the bark? A happy feeling? Maybe!
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Your heavy, trout-like eyes
Hey! Wear a pair of these glasses and people might say, “Hello, Fishstick Face!” and it will be a good thing. Erik de Laurens, a designer, has invented a way to compress fish scales, (scales meaning the skin of dead fish and not the thing you use to weigh overweight sealife with)…
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The Year of Living… Not Like a Turtle
What do we know about turtles? Hard shell to protect the body. Check. Four legs that don’t move so fast. Check. Able to retreat into the shell for protection from outside forces that wish to do it hard. Check. Un-check?
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Contest! You know that turtle you’ve always wanted to draw?
I’m re-posting this so that it stands out on its own. The Department of Environmental Protection in Connecticut is having an art contest for kids! You don’t even have to live in Connecticut to enter the contest! All children from kindergarten through fifth grade are eligible to enter an original drawing, painting, or sketch of…
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Learn aboard, don’t be bored – summer camp for kids
Hey Kids! Learn about marine biology, coastal ecology, oceanography, conservation and more at BOAT CAMP in Newburyport Massachusetts this summer, 2011.
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You might not see a single thing around you. You’re not alone.
The You Tube(r) video Once Upon a Tide presents a different kind of fairy tale. Listening to the sound a seashell makes, a real living girl enters into a sad and beautiful cartoon world of the ocean. The storyteller in the video says, “you might find it hard to believe but I assure you it’s…
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I have the superpower to help penguins
Here is a video made by kids in Ohio who talk about using their own super powers to help the environment, animals and other people. You kids out there in internet land can make your own video on using your own super power and send it to Roots and Shoots. You can also send it…