Everyone wants to know more about global warming. Baked Alaska, a film produced by Spanner Films Ltd, provides an interesting way to understand its impact. With the changing climate in Alaska, the lives of the people living here are changing forever. The temperatures in Alaska are rising ten times faster than in rest of the world. And the inhabitants are feeling the heat. Eleanor Sam, a resident of Alaska says “When we were children we wore thick fur, we don’t wear clothes like that any more”. The film comes down heavily on the US government’s move to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil drilling. (Film duration: 26 minutes)

Computer games

Earth’s future in your hands - An interesting game in which the player can learn how to tackle climate change at the national level by playing the role of the head of a state of an European nation. The challenge is to make the right policy changes from available options that would enable the country to tackle climate change, and at the same time not alienate the people who vote for the policy makers.
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/hottopics/climatechange/climate_challenge/)

Play Biodiversity - online directory for computer games on biodiversity.

Getting to know species and ecosystems, nurturing wildlife, and managing a zoo have never been so much fun. A range of computer games that make environment and biodiversity accessible on a mouse click to help teachers and parents find the right game for their kids.

Zoo Tycoon 2 - the advanced sequel to Zoo Tycoon. Its aim is to maintain the zoo as a profitable business and at the same time express genuine care for the animals. Its expansion, Endangered Species, makes the player create an ideal habitat for threatened species, like the Javan Rhinoceros, the Crested Gibbon and the Galapagos Giant Tortoise, choosing from many interesting options available.
(http://www.countdown2010.net/ games/zootycoon.html)

So what do we do?

We decided to take the opinion of those who will face the consequences. Yes! ‘the student community’!

If environment education becomes a separate subject at school level do you believe we will start taking our environment more seriously? Send your replies to: panditji@cseindia.org

While experts continue to discuss the ‘best’ mode of teaching, yet another board examination is round the corner. And the fate of ‘environment’ remains undecided.

The magic glue which will make all these disparate opinions stick, is the teaching community. An excited, interested, and committed teacher, if provided with comprehensive resource material and adequate teaching aid can make a success of any model, infused or otherwise.

Gobar Times invites readers to share and seek information about Green Schools at
eeu@cseindia.org or write to
Environment Education Unit
Centre for Science and Environment,
41, Tughlakabad Insititutional Area, NewDelhi-110062

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