Links

INTERESTING LINKS IN ENGLISH:

http://treadlightly.tigweb.org/

Tread Lightly is a free climate change education and engagement program offered by TakingITGlobal (TIG). Tread Lightly features innovative online educational tools and resources designed to empower youth to reduce their ecological footprints and take action on climate change. 

http://www.unesco.org/education/tlsf/mods/theme_c/mod18.html

Teaching and learning for a sustainable future. A multimedia teacher education programme.

http://www.etwinning.net/es/pub/index.htm

http://www.espnet.eu/image/

In these webpages we can find a variety of schools that explain what kind of project they want to start to put into practice. So any teacher can get in touch with another country teacher.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z78aaeJR8no

Ken Robinson: Changing Paradigms

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XTCSTW24Ss

Ken Robinson - Leading a Learning Revolution

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0pQzuPnAaA

Ken Robinson: Education Innovation - Conversations from Penn State

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnfzZEREfQs

Bill Gates: How do you make a teacher great?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb_ZJ_xnx6I

Pensant en els altres. A video about a Japanese teacher that put into pratice emotional education.

http://en.childrenslibrary.org/about/mission.shtml

The ICDL Foundation is making children's literature available online free of charge. The mission is to support the world's children in becoming effective members of the global community - who exhibit tolerance and respect for diverse cultures, languages and ideas. Sign in and get access to 4643 books in 61 languages.

http://www.voanews.com/content/stops-starts-for-china-air-pollution-controls/1617671.html

Stops, starts for China's air pollution controls

http://www.voanews.com/content/global-warming--history/1617887.html

Study finds Earth warmer today than most of past 11,000 years 

INTERESTING LINKS IN SPANISH:

http://www.esplai.org/ca/propostes-educatives/teixint/aprenentatge-i-servei

This website is about a catalan association. Nowadays, they are working through an educational proposal called "Teixint, Ciutadania Compromesa", means "Weaving, Committed Citizens". Where the own children develop little projects to improve their villages environment and take care of them.

As an exampe I am going to explain one of the projects children proposed to do:

Operation Red Tail Project, is a project where the youth group  Campiquipugui of Riera de Gaia worked along with La Noria Association during the 2011-2012. Young people from Campiquipugui became aware of the need to conserve Gaià biodiversity, so they were helped to understand the need to conserve river ecosystems in good ecological conditions.

http://innovacioneducativa.wordpress.com/about/  

This website is focused on educational innovation. 

http://www.educa.madrid.org/web/ge.infantil/BOLET%CDN%20CFA'S%201,%202/BOLET%CDN_1_NOV_07/boletingei_n1.pdf
Centros de formación ambiental en la comunidad de Madrid. Proyecto: Escuela sostenibles.
This website explains how it can be put into practice a project based on sustainability in schools. What is interesting about this page is that it is mentioned the functions that the ambiental commission must follow.

http://books.google.es/books?id=e1PLxGcRf8gC&printsec=frontcover&hl=es&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
La investigación-acción. Conocer y cambiar la práctica educativa.
This website is a book-link that talks about investigation-action in schools. And at the end there are some real examples based on investigation-action in catalan schools.

http://www.sostenibilidad.com/educacion.html
http://www.sostenibilidad.com/home
A Spanish company that has started to work on sustainability and has begun to implement a program based on sustainability in schools' classrooms.

EDUCATIONAL FILMS

http://www.imdb.es/title/tt1063669/
La Ola (2008)

http://www.imdb.es/title/tt0250258/
El Experimento (2001)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/divided/

A class divided – Una clase dividida (Jane Elliot, 1968)