• GLOBAL WARMING 101 / CLIMATE CHANGE TL LVA

    Par anglais03 dans THE ENVIRONMENT le 15 Décembre 2013 à 14:14

     MISE A JOUR 15 décembre 2013  : le site LOE : Living on Earth : plein de ressources audio à télécharger!

    http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=13-P13-00050&segmentID=1

    Allez dans les archives , c'est une mine ( pour l'environnement).

    Page du 28 avril 2013 à destination des TL1 (LVA)  2012-2013.

    Hope it helps...

    http://lewebpedagogique.com/lovenglish03/global-warming-climate-change-the-big-thaw/

    Notion : The Idea of Progress

    Impacts of human activity on our planet;

    ( Ethics and responsibility)

    Gauguin, Paul.  Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
    1897. Oil on canvas
    54 3/4 x 147 1/2 in.
    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

    Votre programme  :     Programme du cycle Terminal en langue (1ère + Terminale)

    Gestes fondateurs et mondes en mouvement

    L'idée de Progrès
     
    Considéré comme outil principal d'orientation dans la complexité du monde, le concept de progrès a accompagné les grands moments de l'histoire. Il traverse et bouscule les héritages et les traditions, entraînant une grande variété de processus d'évolution ainsi que des résistances face au changement.Relayé par un développement des technologies de pointe, une accélération des avancées scientifiques et techniques, le culte de la nouveauté et du progrès fait l'objet, ces dernières décennies, d'une prise de conscience accrue des conséquences possibles qui en résultent.À partir de documents authentiques de toute nature, contemporains ou antérieurs, il convient de donner aux élèves des éléments de contextualisation qui leur permettent d'établir des relations pour mieux appréhender les enjeux relatifs à l'idée de progrès.Cette notion permet notamment d'aborder :- les effets du progrès sur le fonctionnement des sociétés (nouvelles libertés, nouvelles contraintes et nouvelles aliénations) ;- l'impact sur les codes de la communication (évolution des langues et langages) ;- l'éthique du progrès et la responsabilité ;- la vision diachronique des arts et des techniques ;- la notion de modernité et d'avant-garde dans les arts ;
    - l'illusion du progrès, les utopies.

    © Ministère de l'Éducation nationale 

    "The idea of progress basically consists in believing that the world can become better in terms of art, science, technology, liberty and quality of life and has shaped most of Western civilisation's vision of history . Progress implies change, some evolution from an old order with old traditions to a new order which is not necessarily embraced by all . It's at the heart of a heated debate between those who approve of these changes and those who resist and criticize them in the name of tradition . As the rythm of progress seems to have accelerated these last few decades with an ever faster increase of major technological and scientific breakthroughs, the cult of novelty and progress is now being questioned . Indeed, a growing number of people voice their concern about the ethical, social and environmental consequences of such development and about the excesses of today's consumer society ." (MISSIONS Tale)

     IDEA OF PROGRESS:

    • Technological progress : new technologies and communication tools, the Internet, domotics, CCTV, the cinema (special effects 3D), transports....
    • Medical progress : vaccines, organ transplants, struggle against AIDS and cancer, plastic surgery, in-vitro fertilization, cloning....
    • Scientific progress : space travels, environment....
    • Social and political progress : equality, parity, liberty, women's rights, gays' rights, quality of life, family, fighting poverty, protecting the environment, becoming citizens of the world aware of global concerns..
    • Economic progress: consumption....
    • Art, literature, cinema : culture and knowledge ...

    For starters....

    About Ronald Wright's  Essay : A Short History of Progress.   (Source : Wikipedia)

    The first chapter, "Gauguin’s Questions", poses the questions that provide a framework for the book. Referring to Paul Gauguin's painting of the same name the questions are: Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? Wright defines progress using the Victorian terms "the assumption that a pattern of change exists in the history of mankind...that it consists of irreversible changes in one direction only, and that this direction is towards improvement".

    This is only  one of the definitions of progress, but it may be a starting-point.

     trailer of a 2011  Canadian documentary based on Wright's book :

    Surviving Progress

     

     FULL TRANSCRIPT,

    but the documentary is no longer available  : SP_transcription

      FIRST DOCUMENT The Cree Prophecy : describe and comment

    english-for-techiesvocabulary/photography by Christian Lassure

    PDF CREE INDIAN PROPHECY POSTER

    About the "Cree Prophecy" :   .birdclan.

    On peut utiliser certaines scènes ou extraits  de Dances with W olves  à relier avec ce poster !

    (la 2ème scène de chasse au bison)

    + texte How Many More dans Your Way terminale : questions de Kicking Bird sur la destruction de son environnement par l'homme blanc...

    Watch the video corresponding to today's oral comprehension :

     

    The worksheet here :global-warming-national-geographicquestions

    check the answers : global warming national geographicanswers

    global warming script

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    EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE

    INTERACTIVE/ EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE

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     Climate change Discovery Channel.pdf

     Brainpop about food chains  

    brainpop.co.uk/science

     

    • National Geographic Magazine

    PDF :  Signs From Earth

    Photos to illustrate the topic :

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2239189/The-Glacier-National-Park-soon-change-global-warming.html

    Learn more about this topic with the New York Times :

    An article from the New York Times,  here :

    From the Economist, here :

    The Economist

    Food for Thought : a video :  Greenpeace

     

    CLIMATE CHANGE :   US Environmental Protection Agency.

    What can we do to avoid climate change (BY EPA) ?  Watch the video

     

    complete the worksheet!

    FICHE DE COMPREHENSION DE LA VIDEO ENS LYON

    Learn about climate change :U.S. EPA Student's Guide to Global Climate Change

    Plus ludique ou :facile :  "for kids"

    U.S. EPA Student's Guide to Global Climate Change

    How global warming works (videos)

    Un lien vers la BBC

    BBC

    • Another learning site for "kids like you" : the NASA   with  climatekids.nasa
    • Log on to  Discovery Channel to watch videos about nature /global warming/climate change
    • Plenty of things to listen to about the environment on livng on earth  http://www.loe.org/

    POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS......

     

    An article found on The ENS Lyon site , la Clé des Langues:  Peter Ainsworth on sustainable energy and economic degrowth

     

    The lighter side : Polar Bear petition

    Polar bear cartoon

     A few explanations here :

    cartoon-polar-bear

    MISE A JOUR FEVRIER 2014

    "Managing"  Garbage

    http://www.npr.org/2014/02/22/280750148/closing-americas-largest-landfill-without-taking-out-the-trash

    NPR

    Closing America's Largest Landfill, Without Taking Out The Trash

    Trucks dump trash at the Puente Hill Landfill in Puente Hills, Calif., on October 31, 2013. The nation's largest landfill is now covered with soil and closed, and will one day be a park.

     

    TRANSCRIPT ON SITE !

    The animals save the planet

    http://www.environmentteam.com/2010/04/11/the-animals-save-the-planet-watch-all-11-cartoons/

     

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