Au calendrier du mois d’avril, trois dates à noter:
– Earth Day le 22 avril
– Pinhole Day le 24 avril (pour primaire et DNL physique)
– TV Turn Off Week du 25 avril au 1er mai
Voici quelques adresses pour présenter ces sujets à vos élèves.
–> Earth Day le 22 avril
Official sites
< http://www.earthday.gov/> http://www.earthday.gov/
http://www.earthday.net/
http://www.epa.gov/earthday/
Posters to download and print
http://artday.org/modules/xfsection/article.php?articleid=1 (check that you find a large colour printer, or go to the local printing shop…)
Organizer’s guides
Download this full .pdf guide to learn about Earth day and how to take action in your class, your school or your community. For those who really want to get involved and make things (and mind) change.
http://media.shs.net/earthday/pdf/resources/edog_book.pdf
This other guide is in .html format. The content also aims at supplying ideas and resources to those who want to organise an event for the day, or help raise money.
http://earthday.envirolink.org/organizers.html
Ecological Footprint Quiz
« This Ecological Footprint Quiz estimates how much productive land and water you need to support what you use and what you discard. After answering 15 easy questions you’ll be able to compare your Ecological Footprint to what other people use and to what is available on this planet. »
http://www.earthday.net/footprint/index.asp
Green year Book
for advanced students. Read about treaties and protocoles on this site devoted to international cooperation on environment and development.
http://www.greenyearbook.org/index.htm
There is also a page of interesting links to various official sites. See for example the page about sustainable development
http://www.greenyearbook.org/sources/sou-ind.htm
http://www.greenyearbook.org/sources/susdev.htm
Earth Day printable student worksheet
brainstorm 15 activities to conserve and recycle, and then consider which ones they would be most likely to follow through on. See if you can pick one as a class to carry out for your community or
school.
http://www.abcteach.com/earthday/ways.htm
[ to use with one of the above sites.]
Earth Day word search and hidden message
http://www.songs4teachers.com/earthhidden.pdf
Links to sites to prepare Earth Day in primary school
http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/earthday/index.html
other links to Earth Day
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/infonews/themes/earthday.htm ( my page for my students)
< http://www.epa.gov/kids/> http://www.epa.gov/kids/
http://www.kidskonnect.com/Environment/EnvironmentHome.html
< http://www.nrdc.org/action/default.asp> http://www.nrdc.org/action/default.asp
http://www.environweb.earthday.com/do/Home (activist site)
< http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/?lang=_e> http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/?lang=_e
[ Earth Day seems to be an American project, this last site advertises for the 5th of June as « World Environment Day »….]
–> Pinhole Day, april 24th
This could be a projet for primary school children, who could study this in physics (transmission of a picture), handicraft (making of the camera obscura), art (taking photos), and cultural exchange (choose one of the groups in the list of schools involved in projects, contact them and exchange tips about handicraft and the results of the class project.)
Parfait aussi pour les TPE et les DNL anglais/physique.
in French : « journée internationale de la photographie au sténopé », but there is no workshop in France, and there are no projects yet…
http://www.pinholeday.org/
[site in several languages]
–> TV Turn Off Week du 25 avril au 1er mai
A partir d’une idée lancée par Marie Winn en 1977 dans son livre: ‘The Plug-In Drug’, trois associations ont lancé cette ‘semaine sans TV’ : TV Free America aux USA, Media foundation (Adbusters) au Canada, puis White Dot en Angleterre. Voyez les sites:
http://www.tvturnoff.org/index.htm (voyez les vidéos)
http://www.turnoffyourtv.com/ (with lots of links to useful texts)
http://www.adbusters.org/metas/psycho/tvturnoff/ (don’t miss the spots!)
http://www.whitedot.org/issue/iss_front.asp (the international campaign against television)
une page de statistiques pour réfléchir:
http://www.csun.edu/~vceed002/health/docs/tv&health.html
