ClimaTIC Project
The ClimaTIC project aims to raise the awareness of the problems stemming from climate and other environmental changes, as well as sustainable development.
During the school year 2006-2007, the project will offer educational tools, exchanges between scientists and reporters, as well as activities and small research projects to engage in around the school.
The project is based on two main themes:
- climate change and polar regions;
- forests and land clearing.
The comic book "The migration of the Ibanes" is the core of this project. An interactive version of this comic book is available on the website , as well as many other educational tools and files.
The local activites and investigations offered in the project will allow children and students to discover the reality of these subjects in their own neighbourhood. For example, while studying climate change and the polar regions, they can make meteoroligical measurements to understand how weather and climate are measured. While studying forests, they can learn about the origins of the wood they find in the classroom (pencils, seats, etc.) as well as about the way people use forests in their own country (for walking, picnics, picking mushrooms, etc.).
The students can then interact, through the web, with reporters on a research boat in the Antarctic, as well as in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Direct exchanges with DRC students will also be possible.
