EducaPoles provides adapted tools for classroom learning and teaching on climate change

EducaPoles is an educational site provided by the International Polar Foundation. It sets out to sensitize young people and the educational world to the importance of the Polar Regions and of climate change by proposing adapted teaching tools and projects.

The International Polar Foundation communicates and educates on polar science and polar research as a way to understand key environmental and climate mechanisms. The IPF also promotes innovative and multifaceted responses to the complex challenges raised by the need for action on sustainable development.

EducaPoles is the International Polar Foundation's educational site (one of IPF’s four internet sites). It seeks to sensitize young people and their teachers to the importance and the fragile nature of the polar environments, and to enable them to approach the phenomenon of climate changes from this angle.

The EducaPoles site offers teachers and pupils direct access to key information, as well as up-to-date news on current and upcoming projects, and a space for latest news on teaching events and materials linked to the polar environment and climate changes. A range of educational resources are avilable on the website.

EducaPoles offers the educational world a number of tools (teaching dossiers, multimedia animations, comic strips, etc.). It has also set up a series of international teaching projects in cooperation with institutes, universities and NGO’s such as Antarctica2003, ClimaTIC, Soleil Noir sur Continent Blanc, etceteras.

The SciencePoles website provides an overview of polar science and research findings as well as recent and forthcoming developments across a range of scientific disciplines.
It is a key tool for the International Polar Foundation in aiming to bridge the science-society divide.

ExploraPoles is one of the websites, which provides an overview of polar expeditions and explorers. Through adventure one can discover these fabulous regions and their importance for our planet's climate system.

Link: The International Polar Foundation, www.educapoles.org/

And, by the way, Professor Sneeze explains climate changes to children 5-12 years old. Contact person for Professor Sneeze is Myriam Dielemans, prof.atchoum@hotmail.com