posted by admin on Mar 27
National Geographic are advertising a competition to encourage students (age 14-19) currently in school and living in Europe to come up with sustainable ideas that will have a lasting impact on the environment and their surroundings, or even as bold as to encompass the whole world!
Basically it is aimed at teachers to help them encourage their students to think about climate change and to see if they have any ideas that could be investigated further for nationwide or even worldwide climate change policies or applications.
Last year 2 students from Finland came up with the winning idea, and it created such global interest, as well as locally within Finland, that National Geographic in association with the energy company Vattenfall are running it again in 2008.
Tips for your entry:
What are the climate issues that are right now affecting your local area, your village, town, local industries or relating to a more global issue.
What are the causes of the problem?
Are there any known or possible new alternatives?
What are the short term and long term solutions for these?
What can be done to make these changes happen?
What can YOU do to help this happen?
As a teacher you need to be able to pose these questions to your students, you need to help them select a suitable area for focus and to guide them towards suitable resources from which to base their facts on.
Want more details:
If you are interested and think you can help one or more of your students to take part, then follow the following link, choose your language and read more:
www.nationalgeographic.com/combatclimatechange
