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• Further questions to science projects

• Additional resources on the Internet

Further questions to the science projects

Students can use relevant parts of Cawedu.net to answer the questions.

What do you think people mean when they talk of ozone ‘friendly’ and unfriendly’ products?

It is possible in the place where you live, to purchase ozone friendly and unfriendly products? How do you recognize the difference between these products?

Do you know what kind of fuel is used in your country? Do you think this causes acid rain?

Solutions

1. A product is regarded as ozone unfriendly if it contains CFCs, like some sprays, deodorants and refrigerators.

2. In Europe and North America CFCs are banned in products. In other parts of the world ozone unfriendly products can still be found on the shelves in supermarkets or electrical goods shops. Ozone friendly products are marked with a “CFC free” label so that consumers can recognize the product as ozone friendly.

3. Coal contains a lot of sulphur. “Cleaner” fossil fuels are oil and gas. The production of hydro-power and wind power is not associated with the emission of sulphur at all.

(Part of these questions have been adapted from Pachamama Teacher's Guide, UNEP, ISBN: 92-807-2147-X)

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Additional resources on the Internet

Additional resources for teacher can be found e.g. at 

• Jetstream, the online weather school of the National Weather Service, USA.

• Teacher's Guide of the The Globe Project

• The Weather World 2010 Project of University of Illinois, USA

• Education & Outreach of University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, UCAR 

• NOAA web site for educators

• Exploratorium tools for teaching

• Global Environmental Change and Our Health of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

List of all learning packages referred to in the Cawedu.net:

• Graph ozone at the web site of Exploratorium

• Online guide on clouds and precipitation of the weather world 2010 project of University of Illinois, USA

• Online guide on radar meteorology of the weather world 2010 project of University of Illinois, USA

• Online guide on satellite meteorology of the weather world 2010 project of University of Illinois, USA

• Online guide on forecasting weather of the weather world 2010 project of University of Illinois, USA.

• Wave Types and Characteristics (High School)

• Hurricane Strike! (Middle School)

• Introduction to Fire Behavior (High School/Undergraduate)

• Remote Sensing Using Satellites (High School/Undergraduate)

• Anticipating Hazardous Weather (High School/Undergraduate)

• Community Hurricane Preparedness (High School/Undergraduate)

• Urban Flooding: It Can Happen in a Flash! (High School/Undergraduate)

• Solar Radiation Learning Module of the College of Alameda, USA.

• Atmospheric structure page of NASA.

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