Sustainable Development : Environment

Using environmental case studies from around the world, chosen for their interest and relevance to students, these programmes offer information to young people on the major environmental challenges of the day, and their underlying economic and social causes, as well as advice on how they themselves can make a difference to the environment. "Pl@net.com" inspires students to make a difference to the environment. "Once Upon a Planet" seeks to bring schools up-to-date with the latest thinking on some of the major environmental problems of our time - biodiversity extinction, climate change, pollution and over-consumption of natural resources.

The programmes ring an 'alarm bell', spelling out the sheer scale of the global crises confronting us.

But there is also a campaigning edge highlighting solutions being developed in Britain and around the world, to show what ordinary citizens can do.The curriculum connections include: Sustainable development; Environmental case studies from around the world; Global and local problems; Economic and social causes of environmental issues; Citizenship; The global economy; and, Modern studies.It supports education for sustainable development and global citizenship, ideal for cross-curricular study and giving pupils a wider picture. The DVD includes the pl@net.com Teachers' Guide - no need to buy separate support material or store printed resources.

DVDs offer greater flexibility and control, making them easy to incorporate into your lessons.

It can be used on computers with DVD-Rom drives and ideal for use on interactive whiteboards.

It is fully searchable, allowing you to go straight to what you need.

It is fully subtitled. The subjects covered in "pl@net.com" include: Water (Unit 14); Biodiversity (Unit 14); Natural Resources and Recycling (Unit 14); Energy (Unit 14); Foods and Farming (Unit 14); and, Cars (Unit 14); Rich World/Poor World (Unit 14). "Once Upon a Planet" includes subjects such as: Drop the Debt; Fair Trade?; Staying Cool; What a Waste; and, Life on Earth.