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This section presents the latest news on the International Polar Foundation's educational activities and projects. It also contains general interest news on the polar regions, climate change and sustainable development for the educational world. Our RSS feeds will inform you when news are published on this website.

  • A new educational tool by IPF

    08.06.2006

    IPF will soon launch a new educational project 'Puzzel je warm...experimenter je koud' (warm up with puzzle... cool down with experiments) where it shows the importance of polar research in the complex climate problem. By means of an interactive tool the project will address young people on Flemish public events, mainly during the International Polar Year.

  • Meeting of the Steering Committee for the ClimaTIC project

    08.06.2006

    The Steering Committee of the ClimaTIC project met in Lille, France on the 12 and 13 May 2006. Three activities are to be continued for 2006 : The Comic book, the pollen analysis and the meterological station. The project partners presented the different activities proposed to students and organised the activities for 2006 and 2007.

  • IPF participated to the GIFT workshop in Vienna

    14.04.2006

    70 teacher formators and teachers from all over Europe gathered in Vienna between the the 3rd and the 5th of April for the 4th edition of the GIFT workshop (Geophysical Information For Teachers). This year's topic was the Polar Regions. This had been decided in order to prepare the teachers for the International Polar Year which will take place between 2007 and 2008.

  • The interactive comicbook “The Migration of the Ibanes” is online

    14.03.2006

    As part of the ClimaTIC project, Inforef and the International Polar Foundation are progressively uploading online an interactive version of the comic book produced by the IPF: "La migration des Ibanes" (currently available in English and in French)

  • Teaching dossier “The migration of the Ibanes” : translation

    27.01.2006

    The International Polar Foundation has translated into english, italian and german its teaching dossiers related to the comics book "The migration of the Ibanes".

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  • This is the first part of Class Zero Emission, where we discuss climate and how it works. A presenter explains how the different greenhouse gases work using a digital animation.
  • Using a large world map with magnets with pictures and chemical symbols on them, the children learn about the causes and consequences of current climate change.
  • Before the students leave on an expedition to the Poles, one of them gets dressed up as polar scientist.
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  • The sledge that Alain Hubert (explorer and founder of the IPF) pulled during his Arctic Arc expedition.
  • The Polar Regions: the second part of Class Zero Emission. Students learning by playing with a 3D puzzle of the Arctic.

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