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Educational Booklets for the Conference

Subject booklets
This pedagogical support document presents a Brazil adapted and didactic approach to the principal topics related to the four great environmental questions: water resources, energy, climate change and biodiversity. This material facilitated discussions and debates in the schools during the third Brazilian National Children and Youth Conference for the Environment that took place in 2009.

7 December 2009
Air

The booklet about air (pdf) details the specific composition of the atmosphere, which gave air its capability to retain the right amount of heat from solar radiation to enable life on earth. Confronted by the dangers of global warming, this booklet proposes debate about what could be done, at school and in the community, in relation to this issue.

 

7 December 2009
Water

This booklet (pdf) demonstrates the importance of water in all life-cycles and provokes debate about how this precious liquid is threatened by problems such as pollution, deforestation and global warming.

 

Earth - 7 December 2009

This booklet (pdf) brings up the question of biodiversity. Beyond proposing ways to respect all species of life and to understand the threats they face, this text encourages debate about the possibilities of saving species at risk of extinction, and about the relationship between biodiversity and global warming.

Fire - 7 December 2009

For human societies, fire brings energy to fuel our lives, amplify our strength and our work, and to facilitate our transportation. The booklet about fire (pdf) gives explanations about sources, production and uses of energy, about transportation and its environmental impacts over the centuries, as well as offers tips on how to address the problems associated to global climate (...)


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