TEACHING UNITS:
Energy, Technology and the Environment
Here are some tipps and information about teaching environmental issues related to technology as well as the question of our energy resources.
NATURE AND OUR ENVIRONMENT
Earthsong
Agood intruction is Michael Jackson's Earthsong about the destruction of the world trough pollution, war and violence. Here are the lyrics.
Our Ecological Footprints
This is a unit devised by the Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband e.V. with students' activities and important information about our impact on the world. [] The report on Europe can be downloaded here. [] More on the ecological footprint [here...].
Foot Print Calculator
How to check your ecological foot print see WWW: [more....] or from Earthday Network: [more...]
FILM CLIPS AND TRAILERS
An Inconvient Truth:
Al Gore's d ocumentary, directed by Davis Guggenheim, is coming ot our movie theaters. The film starts on October 12, 2006. Having been a
box office hit in the States after a hot summer, high gas prices and terrible storms like Katrina it touched the nerve of America. Al Gore clearly emphasizes America as the culprit by not signing the Kyoto-Protocol. Information about the film and trailer here: An Inconvenient Truth. More information about the world's climate crisis and CO2-Emission check Climate Crisis. The German Government is defending Al Gore and still supports that Gore's documentary should be continued to be shows on school. [More...] [See Trailer and further criticism...Science Fraud]
Al Gore's Speech to the Climate Summit in September 2007. [more...] and an interview with Charlie Rose
by courtesy of palantir.net
Stanley Kubrik's Film on Arther C. Clarke's famous novel. Unforgotten the famous Compupter Hal 9000, which starts to he crew in order not to jeopardize the mission to Jupiter [about the film....]; [more on HAL....]