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Lisa Jobson - 08:12pm Sep 4, 2001 EDT
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1. Name of Project: Do We have a spare planet?

2. Brief one-sentence description of project: Environmental project which will stress activities that can be done to preserve our planet.

3. Full description of project:Project consist of on-going environmental discussion about everyday environmental problems; discussion on topic: What am I doing to preserve a planet? - meaning what we have done, what are we doing or what can and shall do to preserve a planet; Art contribution on the same topic.

4. Age/level of project participants:
10-18 years

5. Timetable for the 2001-2002 school year: Project is planned to start with the beginning of the school year. I plan to start with activities for coordinating teacher and students who will participate earlier. The main
activities will be initiated after on September 20th.

6. Possible project/classroom activities:
Students have to explore specific topics; do something connected with that topic; send all prepared done materials to all participants; Students can discuss all problems that are present in every day life in
their community, possible ways of solving the problems or their opinion about specific issue. Students will discuss what they or others in their community have done to solve the problems, what are they doing at present to preserve their environment or what can we do to preserve a planet as we know it. Art contribution can be sent during whole school year showing how students are working on environmental problems, how is community treating specific environmental issues, showing their opinion about some issues or
just showing the problem.

7. Expected outcomes/products:
Students will became aware of everyday environmental problems and possible way of their solution; Students will learn about each other and that there are environmental problems everywhere but everyone have different ways of solving them. Discussing about specific topic, sharing their experience and opinions will connect students and will make world smaller and more interesting place to live in.

8. Project contribution to others and the planet: With sharing of everyday problems students will get closer to each other, will know each other better and will raise bigger international spirit. Earth is our place for
living and we all have to care about it and keep it clean and secure. Students from all parts of the world
have to become aware of it.

9. Project languages: English and Macedonian

10. Curriculum area: Environmental issues

11. Names/email of initial participating groups:
"Jinglu" cubby@cc.nsysu.edu.tw,
"ron totarsky" rtotarsky@hotmail.com,
"Mauricio Garcez" mgarcez@sl.conex.net,

12. Name of facilitator:
Mimoza Anastovska-Jankulovska

13. Email of facilitator:
jankmj@mt.net.mk

Lisa Jobson - 08:13pm Sep 4, 2001 EDT
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1) Name of Project: Waste - Problem or Possibility?

2) Brief one-sentence description of project:
This project researches how are we treating waste in our communities.

3) Full description of project:
Waste is a major environmental issue for all communities. It is part of all our lives. In this project students will investigate how waste is produced and the ways in which we deal with it.

In this project students should combine different methods: collecting data, interviewing, research etc. The project should start with students carrying out the data collection over a full week. Then they will count an amount of waste per person per day. Comparing this data with data from other schools, students can learn from each other about dealing with waste in different communities.

Other important issue is treatment of waste after it leaves home. Students have to do some local research. A visit of local waste disposal site can be very helpful. Visiting of local recycling centers can be used.

Students may collect other information such as photographs, leaflets and newspaper articles to give much richer picture of the situation in the locality.

Students will communicate via e-mail and send to each group its own data. Then with comparing it, they can find out some solutions. Sharing ideas or some implementation will result in new possible ways of dealing with waste, not as a problem for every community, but as possible new ways of recycling or other ways of using different categories of waste.

4) Age/level of project participants: 10-18 years

5) Timetable for the 2001-2002 schoolyear:
This is an on-going project. Printed project edition -- brochure is planed to be published by the end of the project. All data collected in the brochure will be presented using tables, charts, graphs etc. By the end of this school year web site of the project will be developed.

6) Possible project/classroom activities:
This project will increase students' awareness of solid waste generated in homes and schools, and its impact on the environment. It will raise students' awareness of the ways in which domestic waste is dealt with in
different countries.

This research project will result in brochure material, which will be mailed to all participating groups. In this brochure will be printed all data collected by students, comparison between different communities, possible solution of problems, students ideas of dealing with waste and every other data collected while working on the project.

7) Expected outcomes/products:
Brochure will be printed by the end of the project. National workshop will be held to present collected data. Web site will be developed.

8) Project contribution to others and the planet:

9) Project language(s): English and Macedonian

10) Curriculum area: environmental issues

11) Names/email of initial participating groups:
- Mimoza Anastoska-Jankulovska, DSEMU Gorgi Naumov, Bitola, Macedonia;
- Helen Ukazova, Gymnazium No 2, Odessa, Ukraine;
- Mushin Ogretme, Ozel Inanc Lisesi, Kocaeli, Turkey
- Representatives from different schools in Macedonia will participate in national workshop

12) Name of facilitator(s): Mimoza Anastoska-Jankulovska

13) Email of facilitator(s):jankmj@mt.net.mk

14) iEARN online forum/newsgroup where it will take place or is taking place: Environ (apc.iearn.environ)

15) WWW page of project:

Lisa Jobson - 08:13pm Sep 4, 2001 EDT
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1.Name of Project: Pollution : A Menace Posed by Mankind

2.Brief one-sentence description of project:
An assessment of environmental degradation in every sphere of life and how to protect this beautiful
planet.

3.Full description of project:
PROJECT TITLE: POLLUTION : A MENACE POSED BY MANKIND

Facilitator: Subhodeep Sarker
Grade ñ XI, Padmasree Vasantrao Dempo Higher Secondary
School of Arts and Science, Miramar, Goa ñ 403001,
India

Project format
Email: subhodeep1_in@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.geocities.com/subhodeep1_in/

INTRODUCTION:

It is just a few months that the world entered the 21st Century. We have, indeed come a long way from the
ancient and primitive ages to the modern day world. During this long span of more than 2 million years,
manís life has been through several drastic and fundamental changes. But one of the most difficult
challenges that it faces even today is the menace of environmental degradation that has been posed by
mankind to a large extent by polluting it over the ages.

Ever since the birth of agriculture at around 8000 B.C. by the cultivation of a genetically mutant
variety of wheat by man, societies and communities have always been a prominent figure in the course of
human civilisation. The development of such ancient civilisations as the Great Egyptian Civilisation, the
Mesopotamian Civilisation, and of course the Indus Valley Civilisation, had not only helped in putting an
end to his nomadic life, but also helped him in sustaining a huge population through agriculture.

Even though early settlements greatly influenced the nature of human life, in due course of time, it in
turn adversely affected the natural environment. From the very inception of the Industrial Revolution of the
17th century, man has been constantly interacting with the natural environment and destroying it to a large
extent.

In this modern era of science and technology, pollution has become a very inevitable part in
everyday life. Today pollution has created such a menace to the physical and natural environment, that
the survival of life on our watery planet, Earth appears to be daunting. The causes of pollution are
too many to pen down. Some of the worst and the deadliest are water pollution, soil pollution, and air
pollution.

As we all very well know, that, apart from the four most essential criteria for sustenance anywhere in the
universe i.e. Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Nitrogen, a liquid medium for transport (e.g. water) is the
most important. On Earth, water not only transports nutrients from one trophic level to another in the
global ecosystem sustaining the entire food chain and food web, but also helps in completing several natural
phenomena, processes, and cycles like the water cycle, and the nutrient cycle.

WATER POLLUTION:

It is mainly caused due to insanitation, unhygienic disposal of sewage into water bodies, oil spills and
also due to eutrophication. One of the worst catastrophes in recent times due oil spills was during
the Gulf War of 1991 between Iraq and Kuwait. Although the intervention of the United Nations later helped in
putting an end to the war by the defeat of Iraq, the destruction of the oil reservoirs of Kuwait during the
war killed thousands of aquatic lives due to the pollution caused by the leakage of the fuel. According
to estimates, the leaked oil was abundant of fulfilling all the petroleum needs of the world for 15
days.

SOIL POLLUTION:

Another very destructive type of pollution is soil pollution. As soil is the most fundamental source of
food for most of the terrestrial organisms including humans, its pollution poses a threat to their survival
on the planet. Soil is mainly polluted by the excessive use of pesticides and similar substances as
they contain toxic materials and greatly reduce the yield, resistance to diseases, and the fertility of
the soil.

AIR POLLUTION:

Even though water and soil pollution are catastrophic, the type of pollution, which is of global concern, is
air pollution, unlike water or soil pollution, which are of regional and provincial concern. The causes of
air pollution are many. Some of them are, gaseous effluents from industries, emission of greenhouse
gases and hydrocarbons to the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels and also by the emission of
Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) from compressed cans and sprays. Out of these, the emission of CFCs are the
most catastrophic as it destroys the ozone layer, which protects the Earth from the harmful Ultra-violet
rays of the Sun causing skin cancer.

REMEDIES:

In order to combat environmental pollution, firstly, we must monitor the state of pollution in nature and
carefully analyse its catastrophic effects on the environment itself. Secondly, an integrated water
sanitation system must be implemented. This would not only help in treating the water accurately to be
recycled over an over again but would also ensure that the water after recycling would be completely pure and safe.

Besides, we should also emphasize on the judicious use of pesticides and other related chemicals as they
are highly toxic and can easily destroy the immune system on entering the food chain. Apart from these,
the use of pollution control devices would also control the emission of gaseous effluents from the
industries to the atmosphere.

Last but not the least, a worldwide environmental awareness programme must be launched in order to make
people all around the globe well ñ educated about environmental pollution and its adverse impact on
ìMother Natureî. In this regard, teleñeducation could play a very vital role as a global media in the
dissemination of environmental awareness.

Thus, we see, how pollution can pose a threat to the survival of life on this watery planet. Until and
unless we completely understand all the components and processes of the physical and natural environment and their relationship with the global ecosystem, we would not be able to check pollution and save all the
organisms from extinction.

4)Age / level of project participants : 12-21 years

5)Timetable for the project : 2001 to 2002

6) Possible project / classroom activities:

To discuss various types of problems on pollution in the local / regional /global perspectives

7) Expcted outcomes / products:

To create an website concerning practical abnormalities on the physical and natural environment
that have been arisen due to human negligence.

8) Project contribution to others and the planet:

To provide practical solutions for the prevailing environmental problems.

9) Project language :

English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese etc.

10) Curriculum area: School curriculum

11) I*EARN forum / newsgroup where it will take place : Environment forum

11.Names/email of initial participating groups:

i) Aditi Utpat,India aditi_14k@usa.net
ii) Alexandra Higuera, kenyabox@hotmail.com
iii)Elmira, Azerbaijan agilaliev@mail.ru
iv) Mohamed Ghanem,Bankok stu13-320@isb.ac.th
v) Hak-kyoun Kim, Bankok, stu7-319@isb.ac.th
vi) Ryusuke, Bankok, stu7-319@isb.ac.th
vi) Saharath Netivinyoo, Bankok, stu22-320@isb.ac.th
vii)Onn Pruksangkul, Bankok, stu23-319@isb.ac.th
viii)Patrick Chaktupt, Bangkok, stu15-320@isb.ac.th
ix) Bobby Nicolas , Lebanon , elyseusl@yahoo.com
x) Mohamad Borghol , Lebanon,
mohammedbusl@yahoo.com
xi) Gergana Marinova!, Bulgaria
xii)Lun-Yi Tsai,china,iearn-china@iearn.online.edu.cn

xiii)GYAU DANSO , GHANA, wass@wass.worldgh.net
xiv)Ivan Staikov,Georgi Uzunov, Russia Hristo Botev
xv) Ji Hyun Lee, jihyun@earthling.net
xvi)Chris Kwei , Ghana, ckwei@wass.worldgh.net
xvii)Mohamed Ghanem , Lebanon, uslmoe@yahoo.com
xviii)Samira , uslsamira@yahoo.com
xix) Najib , elnojo@hotmail.com
xx) Sakhatskaya" , Kiev,Ukraine, elnojo@hotmail.com
xxi)Belov Anton, Russia, sh208@sh208.edu.ukrsat.com
xxii)Ji Hyun, Thailand , jihyun@earthling.net
xxiii)Sylvia Li, Thailand, cubby@cc.nsysu.edu.tw
xxiv)Sasha Kislinger,Ukraine, chgym@unicom.cv.ua
xxv)wileyda cardona" Wcardona@us.iearn.org

12.Name of facilitator(s): SUBHODEEP SARKER
13.Email of facilitator(s): subhodeep1_in@yahoo.com
14.I*EARN Forum where it will take place or is taking
place: Environment (apc.iearn.environ)
15.WWW page of project:
http://www.geocities.com/enviro_pollution/ (under construction

Adriana Vilela - 03:26pm Sep 9, 1999 EDT
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1) Name of Project: Solar Cooking Project

2) Brief one-sentence description of project: A traveling international wildlife art and poetry exhibit compiled from work submitted by elementary students from around the world.

3) Full description of project: Participants are invited to experiment with alternative energy uses by making, testing and using solar cookers. Recipes, construction tips, experiments, and research findings will be shared online and compiled on a website.

4) Age/level of project participants: 4-12 years

5) Timetable for the 1999-2000 school year: Deadline for American Museum of Natural History exhibit is March 15.

6) Possible project/classroom activities: Build solar cookers - ovens made out of cardboard, tinfoil and cellophane - that run on solar power.

7) Expected outcomes/products: Expected outcomes are the international exhibits and online gallery

8) Project contribution to others and the planet: The project contribution is to increase awareness of and respect for regional indigenous animals. This respect will be heightened through the expression of original children's artwork and poetry.

9) Project language(s): English

10) Curriculum area: Science and Environment

11) Names/email of initial participating groups: WIll be published as new work is submitted

12) Name of facilitator(s):
Rowena Gerber
Yvonne Moyer

13) Email of facilitator(s):
gerberr@mcds.pvt.k12.fl.us
moyery@mcds.pvt.k12.fl.us

14) I*EARN Conference/newsgroup where it will take place or is taking place:iearn.youthcan, iearn.globalart

15) WWW page of project:
www.miamicountryday.org/aces/solar
www.araratcc.vic.edu.au/users/jot/painting/caring.htm2