Topic 2) What we do to the Environment?
Debate over climate change and sustainability are significant political forces in trying to bring about social change. Concerns for environmental management in a sustainable way now permeate government and private plans for development. We need to develop a balanced view as to what constitutes good management of our environment and resources. This will require good will, sound ethical and moral values and understanding that compromise will be necessary to allow different criteria of different groups in society to have their ideas considered when making evaluation about future direction .
Activity 1) Set up your exercise books for this new topic) What we do to the Environment?
a) Create a title page "Topic 2) What we do to the Environment". Make sure that you put the three inquiry questions on your title page and make it colourful. You can print off images that are relevant to the topic and paste them on your title page. b) Then paste in your winks sheet and mind map using the links below to print off copies for your exercise books click here for WINKS Sheet click here for Mind Map c) Download the Glossary and use your computer to fill in the SCIENTIFIC definitions of all the words in the GLOSSARY |
Additional Resources
Watch the documenatry "An Inconvenient Truth" and complete the worksheet to gain an introductory insight into some of the issues that our planet is experiencing.
There is a very good website with many interactive activities to deepen your understanding of climate change and its affects on the Earth
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Introductory PowerPoint - Note current levels of carbon dioxide is 412