• NRDC's Green Squad: The Squad
  Green Squad – www.nrdc.org/greensquad A website co-developed by Natural Resources Defense Council and Healthy Schools Network for middle-schoolers to help them investigate the school environment. Find the environmental problems, compare them to your school, and use the fact sheets to improve the environment at your school. There is also a Parent-Teacher Room and virtual library to help with the investigation. Or visit www.healthyschools.org/kids and learn how you can use your school newspaper to report on environmental conditions.
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• Biomagnification
  Biomagnification: Toxic chemicals and heavy metals flow into the ocean when industrial, agricultural, and human wastes runs off or is deliberately discharged into rivers that then empty into the sea. These pollutants cause disease, genetic mutations, birth defects, reproductive difficulties, behavioral changes, and death in many marine organisms. But the severity of the damage varies greatly between species. In many cases, animals near the top of the food chain are most affected because of a process called biomagnification. Has 6 interactive question/answer that follow simulation
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• Gulf Oil Spill Educator Resources
  What's vulnerable? Educator tools. Where can you go to help? What are bloggers saying? Other news articles. Deepwater spill database resources.
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• Jean-Michel Cousteau : Ocean Adventures . Beluga Balancing Act | PBS
  Lesson plan for "Beluga Balancing Act" from Jean-Michel Cousteau's Ocean Adventures. Grades 5-8 and runs for 7 1-hour class periods. Important theme is the issues that threaten the beluga population and its ecosystem
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• Nutrient Control Actions for Improving Water Quality in the Mississippi River Basin and Northern Gulf of Mexico
  New book form NAP talks about nutrients in waters of Mississippi and the Gulf of Mexico. Addresses growing "dead zone" from lack of oxygen in the water.
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