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Citizen movement Klimaan: Local climate projects
In this webinar, Tris Segers, an employee of the Mechelen citizen movement Klimaan, outlines how you can deal with our commons with care: soil, water, energy, mobility, air, etc. She illustrates this using some local projects and initiatives.
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Sustainable chemistry - WEZO 5
This exercise on sustainable chemistry discusses the various energy sources, as well as raw materials and waste processing.
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The greenhouse effect and climate change - Lernova aardrijkskunde 1
Gain insight into climate change and global warming with our educational video.
We explore the complex relationship between human activities and climate change, and highlight how global warming contributes to global climate patterns. This video …
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Weather: Climate in Europe
This digital exercise will help you learn more about the weather. While completing the multiple choice questions and fill-in exercises you will learn more about:
- plant growth depending on climate and soil;
- pool front;
- depressions;
- global warming.
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Weather: Climate
This digital exercise will help you learn more about the weather. While completing the multiple choice questions and fill-in exercises you will learn more about:
- types of climates,
- trade winds,
- El Nino.
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weADAPT: Climate adaptation
weADAPT is a global cooperation platform on climate change. Discover the latest knowledge, share your own work and connect with others dealing with similar challenges.
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Climate-smart agriculture: Informative video
An information video about climate-smart agriculture. Sustainable agriculture, with energy and water smart measures. This organic farmer also does short chain sales in the Pajottenland.
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World Water Day@school 2024: Educational package
In the context of World Water Day@school on March 22, 2024, Goodplanet and Join For Water developed the educational project: 'Pip a tile and let it penetrate'
Get started with water research with your class. Examine the playground through blue-green …
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ArcGIS: Exercises
You will find various ArcGIS class tasks or homework tasks here. These are fill-in files in Word:
- familiarize yourself with ArcGIS including creating a public account;
- check the characteristics of the Mercator projection experimentally; …
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EDUbox Energy: Teaching package
The VRT EDUbox is digital and ready-made teaching material around one social theme, tailored to students. It consists of text, video, digital tools, interactive assignments, discussion moments ...
This EDUbox deals with the theme of energy.
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EDUbox, Energy: Interactive video lesson
The VRT EDUbox is digital and ready-made teaching material around one social theme. The EDUbox contains text, video, digital tools, interactive exercises and discussion moments.
The EDUbox exists in different forms. The interactive video lesson is the …
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EDUbox Energy: Learning path
The VRT EDUbox is digital and ready-made teaching material about one social theme. The EDUbox contains text, videos, digital tools, interactive assignments and discussion moments.
The EDUbox exists in different forms. The interactive HTML is conceived …
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Belgium: Climate
This digital exercise helps you learn more about the climate in Belgium. While completing the multiple choice questions you will learn more about:
- fragmentation of natural plant growth,
- various consequences of fragmentation,
- pollution of air, soil, …
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Climate walk
Your students probably already know that our climate is changing. But what are the consequences of this and what can we do to limit our CO₂ emissions and reduce our ecological footprint?
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Climate Clash
What factors influence the warming of our climate?
Two or more teams compete against each other to complete assignments.
While discussing, your students will gain insight into the factors that can influence the warming of our climate.
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Industry: Part 3
This digital exercise helps you learn more about energy from the subsurface. While completing the multiple choice questions and fill-in exercises you will learn more about:
- climate change and climate policy,
- closure of Belgian nuclear power …
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NASA Science: Open Source Science Initiative
The space agency NASA is committed to building an inclusive open science community. Open source science is a commitment to openly sharing software, data and knowledge (such as algorithms, articles, documents, additional information) as early as …
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FixLogistix: Online game about transport and logistics
Through this free online gaming platform, your students are introduced to logistics processes and professions from the classroom. As a planner, it is their turn to manage various transports with attention to timing, budget and sustainability. …
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Second grade secondary school teachers wanted for climate think tank
Are you working on climate change in your lessons? Do you sometimes experience resistance among your students, for example in the form of climate fear or climate fatigue? Are your students already climate-conscious young people who realize how …
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Holding Up the Sky: Teaching Guide
This lesson folder accompanies the film Holding Up the Sky.
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If the shamans stop dancing and life in the rainforest loses its balance, the sky will fall and crush everything. This wisdom is passed on from generation to generation by the …
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Planet B: Lesson folder for the film
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Thirteen-year-old Bo lives in a quiet neighborhood, has a loving family, lots of friends and is doing well in school - a pretty perfect teenage life. Like young people all over the world, Bo is curious, questions everything and is rebellious. …
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The Climate Game: Can you reach net zero?
Climate game that allows students to interactively devise a scenario to develop a zero emissions policy.
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Teaching the Future: Climate Dashboards
This site contains links to climate data dashboards, training materials on how to use them, and other climate resources and projects suitable for education.
You will find historical data on European minimum and maximum temperatures, precipitation, as …
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The core trip: Audiovisual teaching material
In this collection you will find audio and video for a lesson about the nuclear trip. The editors of Het Archief voor Onderwijs searched for striking visual material and clipped fragments to bring this subject to the classroom. Use the collection …
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Highways of the oceans
In this resource, students will use a multimedia module to learn about ocean currents, the highways of the oceans. They learn how important the ocean currents are to understanding the local climate.
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The greenhouse effect and its consequences
This series of activities includes hands-on experiments and the interpretation of satellite images for a better understanding of global warming effects.
In activity 1, students create a model to demonstrate the greenhouse effect and show that higher …
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American Museum of Natural History: Ology
Scientific website on which DIY activities, online educational games and educational videos can be found. Fourteen areas of science are covered, including biodiversity, brain, genetics, marine biology, microbiology, paleontology, zoology, …
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Climate issues: Suitcase Turnhout
The news increasingly talks about temperature records, melting ice caps and glaciers, drought, floods, etc. Do students know what role climate change plays in this? What does the future of our planet look like according to scientific models? Many …
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Amazon Rainforest: Kahoots Series! - Zone 4
Series of Kahoots! with the theme, Logging in the Amazon Forest of Zone 4 . The following topics are discussed:
- Where is the Amazon Rainforest?
- Video: National Geographic: Rainforests 101
- What is the importance of the tropical rainforest?
- Video: …
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The impact of the clothing industry on the climate and environment: Teaching package
Did you know that the fashion industry is responsible for 10% of the greenhouse gases emitted by humans?
Why is it that this industry is so harmful to the climate and the environment? And why does it take so much water to make one t-shirt? What does …
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The impact of groundwater extraction on vegetation: Syllabus and assignments
The students carry out a project and learn about desiccation and the impact on groundwater-dependent vegetation. The physical principles of groundwater flow are discussed. The package also includes exercises in the online GIS portals Geopunt and …
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Climate Detectives: Become a climate detective and make a difference
This project was made possible by ESA. It challenges students to make a difference in understanding and protecting the Earth's climate. Students go through three phases.
- In phase 1 they look for a local climate problem. They formulate a research …
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Climate issues: Loan case Lier
The news increasingly talks about temperature records, melting ice caps and glaciers, drought, floods, etc. Do students know what role climate change plays in this? What does the future of our planet look like according to scientific models? Many …
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Climate problem: Suitcase Zelzate
The news increasingly talks about temperature records, melting ice caps and glaciers, drought, floods, etc. Do students know what role climate change plays in this? What does the future of our planet look like according to scientific models? Many …
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Climate warming
If we want our children to live in a clean and healthy environment, now is the time to do something about it. The earth is not doing well. The planet is warming.
On this interactive website you will find theory, videos, but also exercises and …
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Biodiversity under pressure: Crack the climate code
Biodiversity under pressure is all about biodiversity, climate and how these two factors influence each other. The students go into our nature garden to take a closer look at the local biodiversity. In this way they discover what biodiversity …
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Sffrds!: Climate Change Self-Help
Sffrds! is the title of a booklet about climate change. It is also the basis for our lessons on climate change and related topics, from distinguishing fake news to the circular economy.
This publication explains in simple language the connection …
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Climate at school
Climate Education is an enlightening website that helps children and young people understand the challenges of climate change and take action! The most important information about climate change is clearly bundled and tailor-made. Teachers have …
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Radiation Balance: Flashcards - Zone 4
These flashcards are part of chapter one of theme two: The system earth out of balance.
You can practice the following concepts with this exercise:
- short-wave radiation,
- longwave radiation,
- albedo,
- radiation balance,
- energy conversion, …
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Consequences of the enhanced greenhouse effect: Flashcards - Zone 4
You can practice the following concepts with this exercise:
- climate change,
- permafrost(soil),
- glacier,
- negative feedback,
- positive feedback.
You can only go through the (partial) practice set four times in the free Quizlet version. You can also take …
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ClimateScience: Educational website
ClimateScience is a science-based organization and a movement for people who want to learn how to take better climate action.
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Justin Beaver: VR on climate change
Justin Beaver is an interactive VR film where students can experience the changes caused by global warming and pollution from the eyes of a beaver.
In this article you will be taken into the story of Alexandra Sierra, who designed Justin Beaver .
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Exploring the soil
CurieuzeNeuzen has previously received a lot of attention. Tubes for nitrogen dioxide measurement were hung throughout Flanders in 2018 and the air quality results were eagerly shared.
In 2021, the University of Antwerp launched a new …
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The Climate Brigade
Climate Brigade.be is an interactive website for students. He presents the theme of global warming on the basis of ten themes. They not only explain the causes of climate change and the consequences for people and nature step by step, a lot of …
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Climate, energy and a mountain full of sun: Visit to Fabriek Energiek
Divided into small groups, the students independently go through the themes in this collection during a visit to the Fabriek Energiek educational center.
The following themes are discussed:
- what is climate;
- fossil fuels;
- measuring CO₂; …
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Solutions to the climate problem
This lesson package is about solutions to the climate problem. It discusses the challenges, difficulties and additional benefits that the solutions bring.
A distinction is made between climate solutions by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and climate …
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Handsome Buds: Research into the emergence of leaf buds
The fact that leaf buds of trees emerge in the spring is an annual natural highlight. Scientists are not yet entirely sure why leaf buds emerge earlier one year than another. Various controlling factors are known, such as day length, temperature …
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Free workshop on climate change
In this participatory and interactive session on climate, young people from the first stage of secondary education themselves look for more knowledge about climate and they themselves develop an action for the school.
The session, which lasts 2 hours, …
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Animal: Lesson map at the movie
In this lesson folder you will find various ideas to get started in the classroom around the film Animal.
Bella and Vipulan are both 16 years old and belong to a generation that is convinced that their future is under threat. Climate change and the …
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Climate change: Brochure
Czech brochure explaining how and why climate change education is important.
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Climate change: Scientific workshop
Every day we hear news about record temperatures, melting ice caps, or floods like last summer. Through this workshop, students discover the causes and consequences of climate change.
In this workshop, students are prepared to become real …
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Why is it so difficult to predict climate change?
Will we have summers here with an average of 25, 35 or 45 degrees in 10 years? Nobody seems to know. And yet hundreds of scientists are forecasting climate change. Why is that so difficult? Due to the mathematical models, Prof. Dr. Ir. …
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ABC of the climate
This mini-encyclopedia of climate provides a short but accurate explanation of the many keywords related to climate change. At the same time, this booklet offers a striking vision of the climate and underlying crises. It also mentions a lot of …
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Leuven, sustainable city: Fuel Podcast
Episode 3, about Leuven, of the podcast Fuel.
The city offers a solution to many challenges. We are not saying that, but someone who should know: Lies Corneillie, Alderman for Housing, Equal Opportunities and Global Policy in Leuven.
Lies is our …
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Groundwater levels: Explanation video
Should we be concerned about low groundwater levels?
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About water: Podcast Fuel
Episode 1, Over Water, of the Fuel podcast.
In this first episode of Fuel they talk about the shortage of water with water expert Marjolein Vanoppen. She explains in understandable language how things are in Flanders (but also in the world), what the …
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Greenhouse Effect: PhET Simulation
In the simulation of PhET Colorado, a number of questions are asked about the amplification and the natural greenhouse effect.
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Curiosities in the garden
The Curieuzeneuzen in de tuin website contains teaching packages that focus on various aspects of the soil ecosystem and climate change, with extra attention for drought, heat waves and the resilience of our soil. We provide games, links to useful …
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Too hot or not?: Climate change worksheets
Through various practical assignments, the students get to know the negative consequences of climate change better. They are then challenged to develop an alternative scenario in response to this. A game of propositions and a short discussion …
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Save our planet: Online board game
After the launch of the bio-economy learning module Save the planet: Bio-economy course and the physical board game Save Our Planet, the online version of the game is now also finished.
Students can play the game online with each other. All they need …
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Climate: Actuales
This discussion game is based on the card game Higher-lower. The students are shown an image of an object, a food or a means of transport with a certain climate impact. They discuss with each other and provide arguments as to why one image does or …
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Climate portal Flanders
In Flanders we are already feeling the effects of climate change and that will only increase: drier summers, wetter winters, more heat waves and a rising sea level. The question is no longer whether we should adapt to the changing climate, but how …
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ecoCEO: Online game and teaching material about circular economy
EcoCEO is an educational game that introduces students to the circular economy.
The aim of the ecoCEO game is to inform students about the challenges that arise in terms of availability and finiteness of raw materials, and about the possible solutions …
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KNMI - Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute
The weather is erratic, the soil moves and the climate changes. For our safety and prosperity, we need to know what risks and opportunities this entails. And how we can best prepare ourselves. KNMI has this knowledge in-house as the national …
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Weather and climate: Presentation
Presentation about the differences and characteristics of weather and climate.
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Societal perspectives on COVID-19: Curriculum
UCSIA created a curriculum for citizenship education . The content of these lessons is free to download.
Is the corona crisis a turning point for people and society? Could that turning point in some ways also be a return to fundamental values and …
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Climate, vegetation, latitude and longitude: Assignment
Assignment to determine the climate and vegetation type of certain regions on the basis of climatograms from the RMI and a determination table.
Linked to this is also an atlas exercise in which the students have to look up the cities in the atlas, …
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Class match to organize alternative energy
This article provides tips and ideas for organizing a contest in your own class ivM alternative energy.
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Global warming: Investigative learning
Through searching learning, the students search for answers to research questions about global warming. They obtain the necessary information from film fragments and documentaries about this issue.
In this video fragment, the teacher explains her …
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Expedition Space for Water
Climate change has many faces and adaptation is happening on many fronts. The impact of climate change is becoming less and less of a far-from-my-bed show for students. During this guided excursion, students learn how this adaptation has an impact …
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Marc ter Horst: Children's books about the climate
Marc ter Horst wrote Palmen op de Noord Pole and used many sources about climate change for this. Many of those resources can be used in a lesson or project about climate change. For example as a lesson opener on the IWB, as a start for a research or …
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Geopolis: Online exhibition climate and female photojournalists
Géopolis is a photojournalism and educational center founded in 2017. You will also only find online exhibitions:
Travel around the world with female photojournalists
Times are changing. The #metoo movement has caused a stir worldwide. Slowly but …
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Eco-schools: Sustainable school programs
Inspiration about dealing sustainably with our living environment.
Projects:
- find and research plants;
- less waste;
- W5;
- circular economy.
Teaching materials about, among others:
- recycling,
- waste,
- packaging,
- sustainable consumption.
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Climate and Agriculture: Presentation
A powerpoint presentation that outlines the relationship between climate change and agriculture.
With clear graphs and explanations about greenhouse gases and greenhouse gas emissions that mainly play a role in agriculture.
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Climate fungus: Handbook on climate confusion
Climate mold is the title of a booklet about climate change. It is also the basis for unusual lessons on climate change and related topics, from distinguishing fake news to the circular economy.
The emphasis is on collaborating, analyzing, forming …
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Save the Planet: Bioeconomy Course
A bioeconomy looks at, among other things, how you can reduce the use of fossil raw materials.
Through the module you will learn in an accessible way what the greenhouse effect is, what fossil fuels are, what renewable energy is.
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Energy: Audiovisual teaching material
In this collection you will find image and sound fragments about where we get our energy from and about 'Grey Day', together with more context and concrete teaching tips. You can find excerpts about the problems of old energy sources such …
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Environment: Teamwork
A group assignment with the theme climate and sustainability with the aim of applying the OVUR method.
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KIKS: AI in biology and climate change
KIKS stands for Artificial Intelligence , Climate Change and S tomata, and is a STEM project to provide students with insights into the concepts of artificial intelligence, within the context of biology and climate change. Students also learn to …
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Climate speech Nic Balthazar: Discussion
Watch the Climate Argument with your students. It is a powerful and strong performance by Nic Balthazar. Your students get a state of affairs: Why climate change? What is going on? What are the causes? Effects? What has to happen? What can we do …
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Cleanopolis VR
Captain Clean needs your help. Your mission is to make the city of Cleanopolis greener. A fight against climate changes and the polluting cloud above the city.
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About climate trueburs and bosbrossers: Why do young people come to the streets?
In this learning resource you will find the presentation at the guest lesson Elke Martens gave in the third grade of primary education. The presentation explains why young people play truant to the climate.
Each found that many children were well …
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Weather and climate: Repetition questions
This learning resource contains example questions about the theme weather and climate.
The questions can serve both as repeat and test questions.
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Before the Flood: Quiz
Quiz about the content of the documentary Before the Flood by and with Leonardo di Caprio.
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Global warming, what is it?: Audiovisual teaching material
In this collection you will find image and sound fragments about global warming, together with more context and concrete teaching tips. Many scientists agree that the earth is warming. How is that exactly? Why is our climate changing? And what are …
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My 2050: Simulate your scenario for a low-carbon society by 2050
The service Climate Change Federal Government has launched in collaboration with WWF, an educational tool. With My 2050 students can simulate their own scenario for a low-carbon society by 2050.
We all know that our society is enormous challenges …
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Power generation and climate
This document contains a collection of over four hundred web links that were classified according to the following headings:
- Energy
- Nuclear energy and fusion
- Fossil fuels
- renewable energy sources
- energy networks
- curiously footage
Any web link …
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Climate Education Week Toolkit: Earth Day Teaching Ideas
English-language bundle with teaching ideas, apps, videos to get your students started around Earth Day 2017.
This year's focus is on environmental and climate literacy. Every day for a week, the collection focuses on a different theme related to …
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Climate change: Seeking Job
Contract Bundle up in the content and video clips from the site climate challenge of climate change, impacts and solutions.
The students work independently in groups of two. Each group works with an i-Pad.
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Climate Change Effects and Expectations
Movie of the Flemish Environment on the effects of climate change and expectations for the future.
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Global Change Ecology: The ecology of a world in change
Blog about global ecological changes.
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1 for 12 to save the planet: Current Assignment
Current contract for sustainable consumption. The students process the contents of a WWF text on sustainable consumption and the impact of people on the climate.
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YOUCA 2015: Curriculum
This educational package was compiled by YOUCA and Rikolto as part of the Zuiddag 2015 (now YOUCA Action Day). On Thursday, October 22, 2015, thousands of students committed themselves to a day's work. The wages they earned that day went to a …
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Climate: Climate change information
The federal Climate Change Service wants to offer reliable background information about the climate via this website.
You will find information about:
- the difference between weather and climate;
- (natural and human) causes of climate change; …
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What is the greenhouse effect?
The atmosphere is really comparable to a conservatory or greenhouse? In this video you will know already.
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Overconsumption and overpopulation: Consequences for prosperity?
Dutch video discussing the consequences of overconsumption and overpopulation.
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South-North Climate Mirror: Class Project
Class project on climate-friendliness within your own field of study
With the South-North Climate Mirror project, students become aware of the consequences of climate change in the South and how our behavior affects it. The website contains all the …
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The Sustainable Development Goals: Lesson Map
This lesson discusses the renewed baseline of Broederlijk Delen (until everyone joins in) and the importance of local and global action for the realization of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) by 2030.
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South North Climate Mirror
Are you a teacher and looking for a challenging theme to get started with the students? The South North Climate mirror offers you all the necessary equipment: an informative website, a reading package, free training days, a classroom projection, …
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Transition: Sustainable alternatives
This lesson plan consists of a game methodology where students get acquainted with various sustainable actions that they can undertake themselves and with others debate about it in a sort of statement game.
The lesson ends with a brief reflection …
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