What’s cool—pick of the week

Try: http://www.in.gov/idem/enviroville/index.html

Here’s a fun Web site targeted for schoolchildren but informative to adults as well. Welcome to the virtual Hoosier community of Enviroville, brought to you by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management. Take a look at how various infrastructures protect Indiana’s air, water and land. Currently, the site has an environmental quiz with “story problems” and Web links geared for students in grades 6-8, and a similar quiz for K-2 and another for grades 2-5 are coming soon.. IDEM’s Office of Water Quality also has a site for kids; a slide show, a wetlands tutorial and fast facts are a few of its features. Did you know, for instance, that a dripping faucet can waste up to 2,000 gallons of water a month? That when settlers arrived in what is now the state of Indiana, 5.6 million acres of wetlands existed; since then, more than 85 percent of Indiana’s wetlands have been drained or converted to farmland and urban areas. Take a look at:

http://www.in.gov/idem/water/kids/index.html