PBS, the Public Broadcasting Service, has contacted IGLO to promote a new website, The GREENS as a science resource for environmental educators. The site includes numerous activities for teachers as well as for young people. The GREENS Activity Guide, downloadable from the site, and also available in the IGLO Toolkit under the section of “Online Resources,” includes information for teachers to present to their students about global warming and the carbon footprint, as well as directions for a soda-bottle demonstration of the greenhouse effect.
Other features of the site include web-based flash animated episodes covering topics such as recycling, land-fills, waste reduction, and even how to donate hair. The site also offers such interactive activities as a carbon calculator, a movie quiz with questions of how environmental concepts are portrayed in popular Hollywood children’s films, and a blog where visitors can post their own comments and ideas. The GREENS project was conceived by WGBH, a public television channel in Boston.
Photo: The GREENS web site provides multimedia educational activities on the environment and global warming. Courtesy PBS
