Environmental Justice Scavenger Hunt
We'll start by running a search engine: this is a web service which has indexed
perhaps billions of pages all over the world, and created keyword matching
software to allow you to find all pages containing particular words or
phrases.
Use the search engine Google
(www.google.com) (or any other search engine you prefer) to search for a
variety of items associated with "Environmental Justice". See how many of the
following you can answer using the internet:
- Find one (or more) definitions of environmental justice.
- What is the number of President Clinton's 1994 Executive Order
to establish environmental justice as a national priority?
- When did President Bush (the younger) say "On the brownfields of
yesterday, we will build the green industries of tomorrow."
- Find an image of the deforestation of Tierras Bajas, Bolivia
- Find the EPA's official Environmental Justice page.
- Find a page that describes GIS (Geographic Information Systems), including
the history of GIS.
- What is GPS, and how is it related to GIS?
- What is geocoding?
- Find "the official" Holmes High School website.
- Find a web site especially serving Covington, KY.
- Find a cool website for a musical interest of your own.
- Find a website devoted to your favorite sport or hobby.
- See if you can find the document "A Beginner's Guide to HTML", or a
similar document.
Remember to document your sources: we need to be able to back-up what we
find. Don't be caught without your source, or you could be accused of making it
up! Can you find out who authored the page? How old the page is?
Use your lab notebook to make a note of anything interesting you find.
Website maintained by Andy Long.
Comments appreciated.