Tag: Environment

Wild flowers of the Greek countryside 2022

Follow the link to find an e-book we created with the students of F1 in the year 2021-2022 about spring wild flowers found in Greece. https://www.storyjumper.com/book/read/133750422 What are the components of each entry?

Virtual water

A person living in Greece consumes more or less 1,668 litres of drinking water per year. Virtual water, on the other hand, is the water used in the production of goods and services we use. For example, to …

Earth Day … to protect Earth’s natural resources for future generations

Here is a video in which climate activists Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot tell us how we should use nature to tackle the climate crisis. But who is Greta? Follow the link to read about her … Greta …

How can we reduce the carbon footprint of our school transportation?

Here is the infographic on the results of your survey on the carbon footprint of our school transportation. Have a look at the results and think of specific suggestions you can make to deal with the problem of …

A song by Irish children about climate crisis

A greenhouse effect simulator

Click to find a greenhouse effect simulator. Change the parameters to see what happens … https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/greenhouse-effect/latest/greenhouse-effect_en.html

Air pollution in Thessaloniki

Follow the link to read an article about air pollution in Thessaloniki https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1160120/greece-taken-to-court-over-thessaloniki-air-pollution/ and use the following application to check air quality in our city during the year https://www.iqair.com/greece/central-macedonia/thessaloniki Finally, have a look at the following graph showing …

A greenhouse effect experiment

An experiment to show that the higher the CO2 levels in the atmosphere, the higher the temperature will rise …  

Meet the greenhouse gasses

Here is the link to the Climate Kids of NASA. Follow the link to read about the greenhouse gasses. At the bottom of the page, you can find the gasses’ ID cards … https://climatekids.nasa.gov/greenhouse-cards/  

What is ‘carbon footprint’?