From Earth Day to
Environment
Day
April 22nd to June 5th 2011
What is Earth Day?
http://www.ehso.com/cssepa/earthday.htm
what can you do?
http://www.edf.org/page.cfm?tagID=820
What is Environment Day?
http://www.unep.org/wed/index.asp
What are the problems?
Identify the problems, their causes, the consequences and try and work
out the possible solutions. ( analysez aussi les mots, expressions et
formes grammaticales utilisées, et ajoutez-les dans la partie
vocabulaire et grammaire annexée à vos notes)
Analyse these pictures:
-
sources of carbon dioxide emissions
- sources of water pollution and advices
What are the 3Rs?
- what are the 3rs? http://ollierecycles.com/uk/html/reduce.html
- why the 3Rs? http://www.recyclezone.org.uk/iz_whybother.aspx.html
- Plastic bags http://www.plasticsindustry.org/IndustryGroups/content.cfm?ItemNumber=521
- in Europe http://greenpack.rec.org/waste/index.shtml
- in the US : recycle center (page for kids) http://www.planetpals.com/EDrecyclethings/recyclefacts.html
Other sites with interesting
information
Waste management
Recycle different type of packaging like aluminum,
cardboard, textile, glass, etc. (explore also re-use and reduce)
http://www.olliesworld.com/uk/html/recycle.html
- watch the recycle ads on tv
in Devon, UK http://recycledevon.org/media-centre/tv-adverts.php
in King County, USA http://your.kingcounty.gov/solidwaste/garbage-recycling/multimedia.asp
"Recycle, the possibilities are endless http://www.tellyads.com/show_movie.php?filename=TA0136
"Recycle, another can" http://www.tellyads.com/show_movie.php?filename=TA4490
"Recycle, bottles and jars" http://www.tellyads.com/show_movie.php?filename=TA2124
"Recycle, gardening" http://www.tellyads.com/show_movie.php?filename=TA3056
- in the US
: hasardous products in your home
http://www.purdue.edu/dp/envirosoft/housewaste/house/house.htm
Good ideas to save energy
Sources of energy loss and solutions : home
energy audit
http://ase.org/resources/home-energy-audit
Green
choices : what can you do at home in the UK ?
http://www.greenchoices.org/
Tips to save energy in the US
-
short http://www.planetpals.com/partnerenergy.html
- long http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/kids/energy.cfm?page=3
Play
The Amazing Recycle-ma-Whoozitz Machine!
Learn how different items are recycled in the factory
http://www.ecokids.ca/pub/eco_info/topics/waste/recycle_mc/index.cfm
Jiffy's eco-kids
answer the questions and learn how to protect the
environment in Europe http://ec.europa.eu/environment/archives/toolkits/index_en.htm
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/archives/toolkits/jiffy_quiz/jiffy_quiz_en.htm
Hogbuster
Hunt the energy hogs and learn from the handbook
http://www.energyhog.org/
A special page of games and activites to learn
http://www.ecokids.ca/pub/games_activities/index.cfm
Energy saving games : what can you do in your home to save energy?
http://www.olliesworld.com/adventure/onlinegames/energy-saving-game.htm
http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=popuptool.atHome
http://www.ecokids.ca/pub/eco_info/topics/energy/energy_efficient/play_energyefficient.cfm
Learn about energy and do the quiz
http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energy.cfm?page=quiz
Watch videos
Discover how electricity can be generated, or tour the first
nuclear plant in the USA built in 1958...
http://energyquest.ca.gov/movieroom/index.html
What is greenhouse effect?
http://www.ehso.com/ehshome/globalwarmingclimate.htm
see the picture : http://www.ehso.com/ehshome/images/earthgreenhousegases.jpg
videos explaining the greenhouse effect and global
warming :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP-tg4atr5M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zLuqSYF68E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmRyJaBPvD0
Hasardous Wastes
Take
the test game and find out how the Americans dispose of them : http://www.learner.org/exhibits/garbage/hazardous/
See also this page about Earth Day (April 22nd) : http://lycees.ac-rouen.fr/pascal/infonews/themes/earthday.htm
