health and family life education classroom poster - manging the environment
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Health and Family Life Education is an exciting new course for Caribbean Secondary Schools. It attempts to meet some of the challenges facing Caribbean societies today, including the HIV and AIDS epidemic, rising levels of violence, health and environmental problems.TRANSCRIPT
Managing the Environment
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Advocacy Key steps• Identify the issue or problem.• Decide who needs to be influenced.• Research information, make sure it is accurate.• Present information so that it will be effective.• Suggest different ways to solve the problem.• Evaluate what you have done.
• Take action to make some personal changes.• In a group, choose one local issue you want to affect. Work together and use the advocacy steps to influence the situation.
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• Record your findings on a table.
• Sort the rubbish from a bin into different kinds of materials. You will need to wear gloves.
Use resources sustainably
Reduce, reuse,
recycle
• Used plastic drinks bottles• Glass bottles and jars• Broken crockery• Vegetable peelings• Food waste• Wood scraps• Garden trimmings• Old furniture• Old appliances• Any other household waste
Do a survey to find out what your families do with the following:
The artwork in the poster has been taken from the Health and Family Life Education Student’s Books © Macmillan Publishers Ltd. Additional images provided by kind permission of Macmillan Mexico and Pathfinder.
Pick up Litter
Work with others to improve
the school and neighbourhood
Look after my local
environment
How many atmosphere-friendly choices do you make in a day?
Use less electricity, walk instead of taking a car or bus, eat locally grown food, buy less.
Campaign, advocate and
persuade others to conserve the
environment
...becoming this everywhere.Help to stop this...
What can I do to lessen my negative impact on the environment?
What can I do to increase my positive impact on the environment?
Share resources and use less
Dispose of waste
safely
Reduce our
carbon footprint
What can we do?Let’s all take action to
make a difference!
Research - find out
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