1) Website: Environment Protection Agency
2) Website Address: http://www.epa.gov/
3) Copyright date and/or Last Update: Last updated on Monday, March 7th , 2011
4) Author/Organization Credentials: Your Rights under the Privacy Act: The Privacy Act of 1974 protects the personal information the federal government keeps on you in “systems of records (SOR)” (information an agency controls that can be retrieved by name or some other personal identifier). The Privacy Act regulates how the government can disclose, share, provide access to, and maintain the personal information that it collects. Not all information collected online is covered by the Privacy Act.
5) Web Site Design and Ease of Navigation: The Environmental Protection Agency website is very informational website that allows the viewer to see what the issues are in the environment that they are living in. This website greets you with a slideshow full of images and issues that our environment is dealing with in the U.S. The websites motto is “40 years of protecting health and the environment” and has four links on the top that help you learn the issues and the science and technology that helps are environment be safe and clean. The other two links on top is the laws/ regulations and explains to the viewer who EPA really is. My favorite feature on this site is the “MyEnvrionment” link that allows you to see what is going on in your own environment at home. The viewers simply enter their address, zip, city or place name and it well show them their environments stats. The stats consist of air quality, water quality, the health of your environment like types of toxins if any and the quality of the land.
There is also a cool little feature on this link that allows you to make a shootout to how well your environment is and it allows to other people in your community to see your comments and concerns on where you live. Environmental reports also displayed that allows you as a resident to see what past reports compare to the environment you now live in today.
6) Response and Recommendation for Use: As a teacher is an excellent way to get your students interested in their environment. Teachers today find it hard sometimes to get their students excited about nature and our environment. Well this website can give you tools you need to come up with a lesson plan that can let your students see what is really going on in their environment. This website can track the amount of pollution is your schools environment and you can show your class that this is a problem. From there you can assign an environmental project that gives your students a chance to get their hands dirty. For example, you can tell your students to research this part of the website and have them find what pollution problems are going on where they live. Then you can vote as a class to see what issue is the worst and act out on it. After teaching to them about environmental safety and the dependency which we rely on our environment, it can be a perfect time to take them on a field trip to do something about the biggest issue in their environment. It could be cleaning a polluted ditch, planting trees, showing awareness about water conservation by having rallies. Basically this website provides an excellent way to have your students interact with their own community outside of the classroom.
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