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Energy is our Future: Library

This section features a set of teaching and learning online resources that may help teachers prepare lessons on energy-related topics. The section also includes past outcomes that resulted from a Web-based classroom activity and a school competition that were open during the school year 2006-2007.


Building for a Sustainable Future: Energy Consumption in Construction

This article provides some support information that is needed to understand the topic of the chat no. 2 that focuses on how to reduce energy consumption in housings.

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FuturEnergia: the Energy of the Future

This article is intended to familiarise the FuturEnergia teachers and their classes with a new thematic area: the energy of the future. The article is written by Mr Ray Hammond (futurologist), who hosts the chat no. 2. The chat activity aims to enable the participating classes to find out more about solutions to the energy of the future.

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The Energy is our Future: Benefits of plastics

This is an article that summarises the benefits of plastics. It also explains how these advanced materials can help us save energy and therefore contribute to a sustainable future.

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Archive: Articles on energy related themes

This is a collection of articles that served as support for the chat activities that were organised during the school year 2006-2007. The articles focus on a large range of energy related themes covering car design, carbon footprint, making better use of energy, reducing energy consumption in buildings, how to secure energy after depletion of resources and others.

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Previous school competition

This school competition was open to schools during the school year 2006-2007. On behalf of PlasticsEurope, European Schoolnet invited students ages 11-18 to take part in the “Energy is our Future” poster and slogan competition.

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Past activity: My Energy Train Story

This is a past Web-based classroom activity that was available to schools during the school year 2006-2007.

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