Ετικέτα: environment

Upcycled Wall Art

    Start the new school year with some hands-on motivation and upcycling! Old books or newsparer pages can be turned into wall art for students rooms by just applying some water colour or adding inspirational quotes. Get a few ideas below. www.favecrafts.com  Bird-and-Text-Collage-Wall-Art www.instructables.com How-to-make-upcycled-art-with-old-books fineartamerica.com www.shutterfly.com

Regular Houses VS Tiny Houses: Are You For Or Against Micro-Living?

photo credit: https://littleyellowdoor.wordpress.com/ Would you do it? Would you deny regular home space and fit your needs into the size of, say, a roomy shed? In fact, this is already happening around the globe. The tiny house movement has been swelling in the past few years while lifestyles, needs and consequently…

Plant Your Coffee Cup!

Imagine every cup of coffee that consumers discard turning into a beautiful tree. Imagine the immense problems of deforestation and overgrazing being tackled by just sinking your empty cup of coffee into the ground. How cool would that be? Well, a company in California called Reduce. Reuse. Grow has already imagined and…

3 March, World Wildlife Day

Are you serious about wildlife crime committed against different species around the globe? Learn why we must.   Read about this day, what it stands for and how you can help at PAW Scotland UK National Wildlife Crime Unit UN News Center wildlifeday.org CITES  

An Underground Park

Why would anyone think of building an underground park? Where is it going to be built? Who has designed this park? Well, read all about it in this article here or watch the relevant videos and find out. You are challenged to answer the following questions: What is New York City’s High…

Hot Information on Freezing Antarctica-Quiz and Article

We are fully in winter now and although there have been some cold days here in Greece, no snow has been really seen in most regions of our country, apart from the high altitude ones. I know we would all like to have some “white days”, but until the weather…

Christmas Lesson Plan with Grade E / Χριστουγεννιάτικο Σχέδιο Μαθήματος με την Πέμπτη Τάξη

Being motivated by the wonderful crafts site krokotak.com , (which I presented in an earlier article here), I came up with a two-days lesson plan that included various activities, culminating in the construction of these roll paper wish-houses. The aim of the lessons was to create a relaxed Christmas mood, where the language…

International Day for the Preservation of the Ozon Layer

In 1994, the United Nations proclaimed 16 September the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, commemorating the date of the signing, in 1987, of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. Ozone, what is it? Where does it come from? Why is the ozone…