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January 7, 2012

Looking for data

On of the most frustrating things about teaching teaching a subject that changes as rapidly as ESS is finding usable, current and reliable data that can be built into case studies and scenarios. A resource that I continually forget about but always seem to end up going back to is the European Environment Agency’s website. This is a wonderful resource grouped around themes that include:  Air pollution, Biodiversity, Chemicals, Climate change and  Environment and health among others. Each theme contains publications, articles, multimedia as well as a wealth of data and maps that are all very much usable in ESS.

Have browse

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May 1, 2011

Topic 6: Climate change – a useful resource

The Guardian newspapers online section has just published a really useful Ultimate Climate Change Faq. Lots of information but also lots of useful data such as which industries emit the most Carbon. Could be the source of a few case studies and data research projects.

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March 8, 2010

Introducing Wordle

Filed under: TOK — Tags: — triplea_cw @ 10:10 am

Just in case you haven’t seen the delightful Wordle – good for making up word sheets and cheap posters in the classroom. Go to http://www.wordle.net/ and wordle away!

Wordle: TOK Words

http://www.wordle.net/.

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