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Climate change - USA Environmental Protection Agency
Description: This webpage by the USA Environmental Protection Agency offers a wide range of learning resources, neatly categorised in specific topics in relation to climate change, like the foundational concepts of climate change, the causes of climate change, impacts, indicators and risk analysis. The organisation of learning resources by topic facilitates the users' access to information on specific aspects of climate change. Resources to learning about how the earth's climate is changing and why, and how this is affecting our life.
Climate change effects
Description: Activities to help students understand climate change effects on their immediate environment.
Climate change for students
Description: An introduction to climate change for students and resources for educators.
Good practeces on sustainable environment
Description: Good practeces, videos and activities to for learning about the sustainable environment and ways to achieve sustainable growth.
How the renewable energies can lead to a cleaner world
Description: A comic book about how renewable energies, like the wind, can lead to a cleaner world.
iURBAN project
Description: iURBAN project is primarily driven by business and social objectives. It connects new business models and innovative ICT technologies to create commercially viable, robust, scalable, interoperable, and integrated smart energy solutions for managing energy in cities. As one of its goals, it promotes encouraging citizens to raise awareness about energy efficiency and achieve energy and financial savings. Students can utilize this idea by implementing smart measuring devices in their homes and monitoring energy consumption.
Solar energy potential - NASA
Description: This webpage by NASA presents a classroom activity for school education, where the students are guided to calculate and compare the solar energy potential in different locations, reaching conclusions on the most suitable locations in their region/country to develop renewable solar energy plants.
STEAM teaching with interactive educational material and games
Description: A portal that gives access to open educational material and resources for STEAM teaching and interactive educational material and games for students.
The energy optimization
Description: Ways to implement energy smart schools and increase awareness of energy optimization among children and teachers.
Urban Mobility - Center of Sustainable Systems of the University of Michigan (USA)
Description: This webpage of the Center of Sustainable Systems of the University of Michigan (USA) includes numerous learning material in the form of videos, on different aspects of sustainable urban mobility, such as the role of the private car (how sustainable are new technology hybrid or electric cars), public transport, and other mobility alternatives. Although the videos are mainly related to the USA, the material can easily be employed for learning purposes worldwide. For each video, the webpage offers key information like the grade level considered suitable, duration of the video, and a short description of the topics presented and discussed in the video.
Website by NASA on sustainability
Description: This website by NASA includes children-friendly educational material in the form of articles on numerous topics related to the study of climate change, like energy, atmospheric pollution, impacts to the sea level, etc. In this you can also find games, activities and videos about climate change, greenhouse effect, water and energy.