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Environmental Studies Project

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

AN 8th GRADE PROJECT STARTER 

Slide show

Pollution

Contamination

The Aral Sea, a drying (dying) lake

Trash

Desertification

Plastic trash

Urban sprawl

Deforestation

Plastic in ocean

Research Tools

LIBRARY CATALOG

DATABASES 

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GOOGLE

  • Use Search, News, Images and Videos
  • Use [or] [not] in your databases queries 
    and [OR] [-] in Google searches
  • Website evaluation LibGuide

CITING

Databases give you the correct citation for articles you find in them.  

Examples

 

Sample Topics

1. Plastics 

A)  A running list of action on plastic pollution 

B) Clean Seas (infographics)

 

2. The 7th continent – Plastic in the ocean
A) The Ocean Cleanup (PRO)

B) Experts warned this ... wouldn't work... (CON)
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3. Deforestation 

World Wildlife Fund

 

4. Ice caps melting / Water level rising 

New study finds sea level rise accelerating

 

5. Death of coral reefs / Coral bleaching

Coral reefs 

 

6. Desertification 

BBC Bitesize 

 

 

7. Climate Change

COP24 - Or other UN Conferences


8. Urban sprawl

Environmental impact of urban growth