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EXPLORING EUROPE's ENVIRONMENT

Teachers' notes

Exploring Europe's Environment is a unique multimedia resource for schools, offering new and exciting ways of exploring European environmental issues with students of 11-16.

This flexible product draws extensively on Europe's Environment: The Dobris-Assessment - the most detailed and comprehensive review available on the state of the environment in Europe. Four key themes are covered in a rich mixture of text, maps, photographs and statistical data:

Water and Rivers
Coasts and Seas
Forests
Urban Areas.

It is hoped that other key themes or issues might be added in the future.

The disk contains a collection of up-to-date data and real case studies drawn from the European Environment Agency, WWF and European schools involved in environmental projects. Windows compatible software with simple exporting means that users can view, select and export items into word processing, desktop publishing and spreadsheet packages. Exported materials can be used in a variety of ways: for example, in student workbooks and coursework investigations, or by teachers developing their own classroom materials, - student resource sheets and OHPs.

To help teachers and students get the most out of the software, the comprehensive 130 page handbook provides teaching ideas and classroom approaches which draw on the experience and work of WWF education staff and teachers across Europe. Background notes, resource sheets and student worksheets support the activities, covering key areas of Science, Geography, English, Maths and IT as well as being of use to Language teachers.

Hardware requirements for the disk element:
An IBM PC compatible
running Windows 3.1
or later
VGA monitor
(SVGA recommended)
High density 3 511 floppy disk drive
Mouse

Table of contents
AN INTRODUCTION TO Exploring Europe's Environment
The background to the project Using the materials Using the Data Bulletin software Schools linking in Europe
INTRODUCTORY ACTIVITIES
Activity 1 Crossword clues Activity 2 Associations'and stories Activity 3 Where I live Activity 4 Choosing graphs Activity 5 A day in the life of... Activity 6 What are we doing to the Earth? Activity 7 Quiz time Activity 8 My own agenda 21 Activity Sheets Resource Sheets
WATER AND RIVERS
What are the key issues? Activity 9 Water, water everywhere? Activity 10 The water we drink Activity 11 A common asset and a collective responsibility Activity 12 Individual sewage treatment Activity 13 Water - in search of an owner Activity 14 Where the river flows Activity 15 The Common Crane - transfrontier traveller Activity 16 What future for Donana Activity Sheets Resource Sheets
COASTS AND SEAS
What are the key issues? Activity 17 What shall we do on our holidays? Activity 18 How can tourists look after the environment? Activity 19 Coastal regions - for whose benefit? Activity 20 Whose beach is it? Activity 21 A message in a bottle Activity 22 Plankton as indicators of environmental quality Activity 23 Plenty more fish in the sea... or not? Activity Sheets Resource Sheets
FORESTS
What are the key issues? Activity 24 Earth - the green planet? Activity 25 Forest damage Activity 26 Forest fires Activity 27 Forests and pollution Activity 28 Biodiversity Activity 29 Wildlife rescue Activity 30 Forest food chatns Activity Sheets Resource Sheets
URBAN AREAS
What are the key issues? Activity 31 The 3 'Rs' of 'Rubbish' Activity 32 Comparing waste Activity 33 Air quality in cities Activity 34 Urban heat islands Activity 35 Turning down the heat Activity 36 Traffic and us Activity 37 Getting around Activity 38 Bicycles in European cities Activity 39 Nature in urban areas Activity 40 Visit our town Activity 41 The town in the 21st century Activity Sheets Resource Sheets
Credits and acknowledgements
Guide to using the Data Bulletin software

Available from Earthscan Publications Ltd.

First published in the UK in 1997 by
Earthscan Publications Ltd

WWF-UK lS a Registered Chartty. No. 201707

All rights resened. The material in this publication may be photocopied for use within the purchasing education institution only. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may other. vise be made, without the prior written permission of the copyright holder.

The disks contained within this pack and their contents are protected under copyright Iaw. It is a criminal offence to commercially make for sale or hire or to distribute an infringing copy of any part of this work. However, the purchase of this pack does constitute a site licence for the purchasing education institution, which may export and print items from the disks for educational purposes.

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN: 185383 442 4

Design: Schermuly Design Co., London
Pnnted and boxnd by: Duston Baldock Production, Northampton
IllHstrations and cover artwork: Sharon Smith and Janos Marffy
Picture credits for section title pages: p23 - Michael St Maur Sheil, CEC-DGXI; p49 - Brian Massey/WWF-UK; p69 - P J Banks/WWF-UK;p91- Frank Spooner Pictures

For a fxll list of publications, please contact: Earths can Publications Lt d 120 Pentonville Road London Nl 9JN Tel: 0171278 0433 Fax: 0171278 1142 email: earthinfo@earthscan.co.uk http://www.earthscan.co.uk

Earthscan is an editorially independent subsidiary of Kogan Page Ltd and publishes in association with WWF-UK and the International Institute for Environment and Development.