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Teacher Resource Pool

Dear educators, welcome to the EcoPodcasts Teacher Resource Pool, specifically curated to equip you with various tools for teaching sustainability. Dive into our rich library, filled with innovative content designed to inspire your students and ignite their passion for environmental stewardship. Lessons plans, co-creation activities, suggested use of a specific podcast or video – you can find all these in the searchable database below, and you can also contribute yourself some teaching resources.   Because sharing is caring, and working together will get us further! So, join us in shaping the eco-conscious leaders of tomorrow, one lesson at a time!

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Plant a Tree - Act Now: The Burgas Sea Garden - part 3

Act
Co-creation Activity
Using online information in the mother tongue, taking notes and drafting plans. Filing an official request and arranging a meeting with a landscape expert. Agreeing on the spot for planting trees. Securing the planting material. Arranging the field trip together with the teacher. Planting the tr...
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TeensYouth

The World's Forests: The Burgas Sea Garden - part 2

Research
Online Poster
This isn’t a follow-up session. The students may or may have not done the tasks in part 1 – Burgas Sea Garden. They just need to read the text and do the tasks in part 2. The text covers vocabulary related to climate change and the need for action. It is not a challenge in terms of vocabulary, ...
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TeensYouth

The Burgas Sea Garden - part 1

Inspire
Lesson Plan
Look at the photo and discuss what the text is going to cover (predictions). Skimming the text – questions before reading:Is the Sea Garden a natural park? (No, it was artificially designed. It is a monument of landscape architecture.)What was there initially? (A swamp.) Match the photos of tree...
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TeensYouth

Vaya Lake Protected Area, Burgas - part 3

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Co-creation Activity
Using Google for specific information – in their mother tongue! Taking notes and drafting plans. Producing texts in English. Agreeing on the most interesting facts and features to include in the presentation. Using colours – pencils, watercolours and a black-ink pen. (Alternatively: NATURAL MATER...
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TeensYouth

Vaya Lake Protected Area, Burgas - part 2

Research
Online Poster
Check out this thought-provoking warning about the way we should treat oceans, lakes, and rivers with the purpose of keeping them clean and fostering their biodiversity. This isn’t necessarily a follow-up session. The students may or may not have done the tasks in the worksheet “Vaya Lake (part ...
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TeensYouth

Vaya Lake Protected Area, Burgas - part 1

Inspire
Lesson Plan
Elicit before reading: pool vs pond, swamp vs marshland, liman vs lagoon, reed vs cattail, or migration and deterioration.Replies are provided in a funny way (upside down), after the tasks. Activities: Skimming and scanning the text and following the tasks written in the worksheet: finding sy...
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TeensYouth
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Podcast/Video
This video focuses on renting a bike as a form of alternative “green tourism”. It also provides cultural information on some of the best areas of the UK’s capital city, with a few basic landmarks. The speaker explains the beneficial way of exploring the UK capital as a green traveller, taking a c...
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TeensYouth
Research
Podcast/Video
The speakers discuss issues related to London air pollution and its devastating effect on health, pointing out the invisible toxic gas nitrogen dioxide and its small particle levels that breach legal limits in the UK. According to WHO this may cause lung cancer. The environmental campaign group i...
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TeensYouth
Research
Podcast/Video
These 3 excellent British audios combined with interactive quizzes and vocabulary explanations (with audio for the pronunciation of words) focus on climate change and climate in general. They discuss worrying issues related to unusual weather and the consequences of global warming, point out key ...
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TeensYouth

The "Recycling Plastic" Dictation

Research
Online Poster
A quick way to check spelling and vocabulary and focus the attention on recycling. Well-presented, large font, easy to work with in class or do as a home assignment. Words are written directly online, with an option to check for mistakes at the end or send the work to your teacher's email.  List...
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