Topic: Kids
Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve. // Mary Kay Ash
Education
Sep 15, 2006
ClimateChangeNorth.ca provides a well elaborated website with a broad range of topics about Climate Change and its consequences.
The website focuses specifically on the north, where changes are happening fast and provides information, lesson plans and reso ...>>
Switch Off!
Sep 7, 2006
Each EU citizen is responsible for 11 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions per year, out of which close to 9 tonnes are emissions of CO2. Altogether the EU is responsible for around 14% of all GHG emmisions worldwide.
The 'You Control Climate Change' program ...>>
Save a Tree
Aug 28, 2006
Currently the Tunza International Children's Conference is hold in Malaysia at the
Putrajaya International Convention Centre (PICC). The Conference is for children between the ages of 10 to 14. Participants are nominated by their schools and community organi ...>>
UNEP: Painting Competion
Aug 3, 2006
Already 177.00 paintings from more than 100 countries have been submitted to the International Children's Painting Competition on the Environment. This year it is the sixteens birthday of the competition. Kids between 6 and 14 from all over the Planet ar ...>>
Human Population
Jun 21, 2006
A quite interesting masterpiece of interactive education presents the Bradshaw Foundation in collaboration with Professor Stephen Oppenheimer.
The 'Journey of Mankind' shows the migration of humans from Africa 160.000 years ago to the present. Now inhabit ...>>
Dodecahedron
Jun 16, 2006
Print, cut, fold and glue paper polyhedra to create your own pseudoglobe.
From Tetrahedron to Rhombicuboctahedron:
Carlos A. Furutihas has made map fold-outs in different resolutions and maps. All as PDF and ready for your color printer.
via Ehrensenf. ...>>
Hurricane Scale
Jun 15, 2006
Associates Press launched a hurricane simulator and gives an impression of the power of these weather phenomenas.
Damage is shown on human buildings and trees. It even visualizes effects of storm surge and flooding.
The Saffir/Simpson Hurricane Scal ...>>
Hubble
Feb 28, 2006
Not a picture from this planet, but impressive anyway. Hopefully Hubble telescope will take more pictures from our universum in future.
This one has been composed and mosaiqued using 51 individual Hubble photos plus a few ground-based.
Galaxy Messier 10 ...>>
One Planet - Many People
Feb 2, 2006
"One Planet, Many People: Atlas of Our Changing Environment demonstrates how our growing number of people and their consumption patterns are shrinking our natural resource base. The challenge is, how do we satisfy human needs without compromising the health of ...>>
