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(Liens vérifiés le 14/08/2009)


 

 


Flashcards and Cliparts
- Vocabulary - Encyclopedia -
Listening
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Interactive activities
- Activities to print -
Lesson plans
- Webquests -
Interactive games - Games to print -
Posters
- Cartoons - Stories - Movies -
Conversation questions
- Songs -
Animations / Videos



Pages complémentaires :

Environnement + Earth Day + Pollution + Recycling

 

Flashcards and Cliparts :

 

Vocabulary :

  • CARBON FOOTPRINT :

    • What is your carbon footprint ? (i118.photobucket.com)




    • Carbon footprint
      = "A representation of the effect human activities have on the climate in terms of the total amount of greenhouse gases produced
      (measured in units of carbon dioxide)."

      (esd.rgs.org)


    • Carbon footprint = "The amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) each person produces or uses."
      (environmental-population.com)



  • Environment - Illustrated vocabulary
    "Collective term for the elements that surround a living organism, some of which contribute directly to meeting its needs."

    (visual.merriam-webster.com)

 

 

Encyclopedia :

 

Listening :

 

INTERACTIVE activities :

 

  • Tutoriel Powerpoint / Impress : Greenpeace et l'environnement
    "Ce diaporama s'insère dans le travail sur l'Unité 2 de 'Move Up' 3ème LV1, Nathan, sur le thème de l'environnement...
    Ce vocabulaire est travaillé avec les expressions suivantes :
    - 'There is/are less and less/fewer and fewer ...
    - It's time to stop/start + Ving'...
    Dans la 2ème partie l'association Greenpeace est présentée et le vocabulaire précédent est retravaillé avec l'expression 'Greenpeace campaigns to' ...
    Pour terminer cette séquence les élèves doivent créer une "leaflet" publicitaire pour Greenpeace..."

    (Dominique Le Ray - domisweb.free.fr)

 

  • Paraphrasing - Environment (englisch-hilfen.de)
    ex. : "to use more of sth than is necessary = ... to waste"

 

Activities TO PRINT :

 

Lesson plans :

 

  • Pour apprendre à faire construire des arguments sur l'environnement (niveau 3e) :
    une séquence toute faite en ligne (à donner à faire aux élèves):
    A virtual interview :
     are you concerned with your environment ?
    + Présentation de la séquence
    (J.P. Palasse, IUFM de Bourgogne, Dijon)

  • STRATEGIES   de   LECTURE   d’un   TEXTE   INCONNU en lien avec le thème de l'environnement
    - Bins in Brighton :
    Student's worksheet 1 / Student's worksheet 2

    Fiches envoyées par Martine Longhi-fetet (Collège G. Brassens - Granges sur Vologne - AC. Nancy-Metz)

 

 

  • Carbon footprint - a lesson plan
    Task : calculate your carbon footprint and see what you can do to change it.

    (Annie Gwynn - Nevers)



    Carbon footprint
    = "A representation of the effect human activities have on the climate in terms of the total amount of greenhouse gases produced
    (measured in units of carbon dioxide)."

    (esd.rgs.org)

    Carbon footprint
    = "The amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) each person produces or uses."

    (environmental-population.com)

    What is your carbon footprint ? (i118.photobucket.com)

  • Audio lesson plans - Eco-schools (Laurence Bernard - Ac. Martinique)

 

  • Tox Town - interactive
    Environmental health concerns and toxic chemicals where you live, work and play
    + "The teacher pages provide activities and resources you can use with your class to stimulate learning about environmental health issues."
    (toxtown.nlm.nih.gov)


 

  • The environment (British Council)
    "There are lots of problems facing our planet today. A lot of people live on our planet, and the earth's resources won't last forever.
    But there are lots of things that we can do to help to look after our planet, and to make sure that the environment has a great future.
    Learn words to talk about the environment in English, and find out about what you can do to be greener!"

    Interactive activities :
    - Words : "What is recycling? What is global warming?"
    - Do or don't? "There are lots of things we can do to look after our environment. What should we do? What shouldn't we do?"
    - Green tips : "What can we do to help look after the environment?"
    - Polar bears
    - How green are you? "There are lots of things you can do to help save energy and water in your home, and to make your home greener. Try a quiz and find out how green you are. "
    Songs :
    - It's up to me and you! "Can you understand what we have to do? There's only one world, it's up to me and you!" Listen to a song...
    - The ballad of Lisa the Lemur
    Visit a museum :
    - Planet Earth - "Katie and Jaia are on a school trip with the other children in their class. They're visiting the Planet Earth Museum."
    A story :
    - The tide turns
    An interactive game :
    - Clean and Green. "Your bedroom is very messy. There is lots of rubbish lying around but you can recycle it.
    Can you put the rubbish in the right recycling bins? Be clean...and green."

 

  • Environment.
    "05 June is World Environment Day...
    Take a look at the articles, word game, story, poem, cartoon, poll, trivia and links."

    (British Council)

 

 

 

Webquests :

 

  • EARTH PROBLEMS - a webquest (Ac. Nancy-Metz)
    I. Air Pollution - II. Energy Depletion - III. Overflowing Landfills - IV. Rain Forest Destruction - V. Vanishing Species -
    VI. Water Pollution





  • Recycle City (biologycorner.com)

 

INTERACTIVE games :

  • Environment Agency - Fun and Games
    "Play our fun environmental games, watch and interact with our animations, wise up on some facts and figures and download our screensavers
    - and learn about the environment at the same time...!
    New! Watch our new animation, 'Climate change is happening' or play our new Wildife game, 'Changing Blooms'
    and build your own interactive city garden, meadow or pond. "
    (environment-agency.gov.uk)

  • Vegetation regions - interactive game of the week
    "Play by associating words with images."
    (visual.merriam-webster.com)

  • Planet Green Game
    "Your mission ? To explore the town of Evergreen looking for ways to reduce CO2 emissions and reduce the impact of global warming.
    Along the way, you'll visit key destinations, each of which presents its own specific challenge..."
    (planetgreengame.com)

 

  • Environmental Intelligence Unit - interactive game
    "This site explores issues of sustainability and environmentalism...
    Are You Eco Friendly?
    Join the futuristic Environmental Intelligence Unit and help protect the environment! Tackle a series of interactive missions to learn about saving energy, reducing waste and recycling litter."
    Eco Friendly - State of the World - Traffic - Rubbish - Pollution - 3Rs
    Island Mission Selection - Mission 1 - Mission 2 - Mission 3 - Mission 4
    (BBC)

 

  • Environment : The planet
    "The Planet is presented with educational stories, illustrative animations, and interactive videos. The campaign consists
    of a movie, a four episode TV series, a website with on-line games..."

    (forskning.se)

 

 

  • Energy Hog - advanced (energyhog.org)
    - with Interactive Games and a Scavenger Hunt

 

  • Save the Planet!
    "Listen to the animals and play the game."
    - activité de compréhension orale niveau 4ème créée par Renée Maufroid

 

  • Dumptown - a game
    "Click on City Hall to go to the Control Center.
    See how Dumptown changes as waste reduction programs are put in place."
    (epa.gov/recyclecity)

 

  • Environmental Rescue - an interactive game about fishing (sadlier-oxford.com)
    "Turn a polluted pond into a paradise by building complete sentences."



 

Games TO PRINT :

 

Posters :

 

Cartoons :


It's obviously non-urgent
(Guardian Unlimited)

 

Funny signs


Bush and Stem Cell Research

by all the top cartoonists!
(cagle.slate.msn.com)

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The ozone story

with cartoons

(unep.org)


 

 

 

Stories :

  • see Lesson plans

  • Inside Stories
    "is a collection of interactive stories that focus on the intersection of human health and the environment.
    These stories are based on real-life problems that involve the effect of our environment on our health.
    Throughout the story, students will encounter information that explores the science behind the key health questions in the story. Students must analyze this information and then use it to answer the open-ended question that completes each story.

    (enviromysteries.thinkport.org)

 

 

Movies :

  • The 11th Hour (Ac. Nancy-Metz)
  • BRAINPOP MOVIES (with SOUND and QUIZZES) :
    English - Health - Math - Science - Technology - Social Studies



  • FLASH Animations with worksheets (prof.danglais) :
    Environment - Science / Tech - Around the world - History - Space Exploration - Renewables - Just for fun


 

Conversation questions :

 

Songs :

  • see Lesson plans

  • EARTH SONG by Michael Jackson :

    The lyrics
    "What have we done to the world
    Look what we've done
    What about all the peace...
    I used to dream..."

    (lyrics007.com)

    • Big Yellow Taxi sung by Joni Mitchell

      - the lyrics (lyrics007.com) :
      "They took all the trees and put 'em in a tree museum
      And then they charged all the people twenty-five bucks just to see 'em
      Don't it always seem to go
      That you don't know what you've got till it's gone
      They paved paradise and put up a parking lot"


      - the VIDEO (YouTube)
  • Hey You by Madonna (YouTube)
    - with Famous People
    (Les chiffres correspondent au minutage de YouTube) :

    0.32 John Lennon - 0.33 ML King - 0.34 Gandhi - 0.36 Mother Teresa - 0.50 Gordon Brown -
    0.52 Shinzo Abe (1er ministre japonais) - 0.54 Australien John Howard - 0.57 G. Bush - 1.01 Hu Jintao (Chine) -
    1.04 Romano Prodi (Italie) - 1.06 Sarkozy - 1.18 Bob Dylan - 1.19 Mandela - 1.21 Aung San Suu Kyi -
    1.24 Al Gore - 3.04 Dalai Lama - 3.05 Einstein + Le président biélorusse Alexandre Loukachenko
    - The Lyrics (metrolyrics.com)

 

  • Earth Song by Michael Jackson (lyrics007.com)
    "What have we done to the world
    Look what we've done
    What about all the peace
    That you pledge your only son..."
  • Heal The World by Michael Jackson (esl-lounge.com) :
    "Heal The World
    Make It A Better Place
    For You And For Me
    And The Entire Human Race
    There Are People Dying..."
    - the VIDEO (YouTube) - Lien modifié




  • River Runs Red by Midnight Oil
    "So you cut all the tall trees down, you poisoned the sky and the sea
    You've taken what's good from the ground...
    River runs red, black rain falls, dust in my hand
    River runs red, black rain falls, on my bleeding land."