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Using nature's gifts wisely |
Where resources come from and the effects of their use |
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Experiment with different ways of making electricity (e.g. solar cells, pedal, water, wind, coal). |
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Using nature's gifts wisely |
Where resources come from and the effects of their use |
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Calculate your own ecological footprint. |
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Using nature's gifts wisely |
Where resources come from and the effects of their use |
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Learn the principle 'Everything gardens or has an impact on it's environment' (e.g. humans, animals, buildings etc.) |
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Using nature's gifts wisely |
Where resources come from and the effects of their use |
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Compare the environmental impact between local, fresh, organic food and industrial food. |
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Using nature's gifts wisely |
Where resources come from and the effects of their use |
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Learn about the linear process of industrial production and compare to the cycling of resources in a permaculture system, e.g. watch "The Story of Stuff" and discuss. |
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Using nature's gifts wisely |
Where resources come from and the effects of their use |
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Learn the differences between renewable and non-renewable resources, and the limits to both of these. |
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Using nature's gifts wisely |
Where resources come from and the effects of their use |
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Learn what an ecological footprint is. |
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Using nature's gifts wisely |
Where resources come from and the effects of their use |
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Learn about the different ways electricity can be made and the main ways it is produced in their own country. |
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Using nature's gifts wisely |
Where resources come from and the effects of their use |
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Learn about the sources of nuclear waste, and it's cycle. |
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Using nature's gifts wisely |
Where resources come from and the effects of their use |
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Learn how people get mineral resources out of the Earth and the effects of this (e.g. coal mining, oil drilling). |
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Using nature's gifts wisely |
Fossil fuels, climate change and peak oil |
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Make a stop-motion animation or a time-lapse video about climate change. |
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Using nature's gifts wisely |
Fossil fuels, climate change and peak oil |
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Go through the classroom and chart or graph visually the materials that different items are made of - to see how many are made out of plastics using fossil fuels. |
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Using nature's gifts wisely |
Fossil fuels, climate change and peak oil |
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Write a poem or essay from the perspective of a prehistoric forest that has turned into oil and then plastic, and then what happens? |
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Using nature's gifts wisely |
Fossil fuels, climate change and peak oil |
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Learn what oil is, where it is used and ways to use less. |
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Using nature's gifts wisely |
Fossil fuels, climate change and peak oil |
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Hear stories about migration to connect with the reasons and impact of migration of people and animals e.g. winter migration, refugee migrations. |
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Using nature's gifts wisely |
Fossil fuels, climate change and peak oil |
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Learn that natural elements (like a forest) modify global and local climate. |
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Using nature's gifts wisely |
Fossil fuels, climate change and peak oil |
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Learn that energy from the sun is stored in fossil fuels such as oil, coal and gas. |
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Using nature's gifts wisely |
Ways to use less: refuse, reduce, reuse, repair, recycle |
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Make an alternative to plastic wrap (aka clingfilm) out of cotton material and beeswax (melt the wax into the cloth with a warm iron). |
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Using nature's gifts wisely |
Ways to use less: refuse, reduce, reuse, repair, recycle |
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Compose a recycling song or make a music video using the song "There’s no such thing as waste" (from the Formidable Vegetable Sound System) |
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Using nature's gifts wisely |
making an alternative to plastic wrap out of cotton and beeswax (melted into the cloth with a warm iron) |
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Create or improve recycling systems /areas. |
