Energy sources and their impact on the environment

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Energy sources and their impact on the environment

• A proposal of the Vincenzo Arangio Ruiz School
  in Rome
• Ovidio Pasquali Anna Maria Curci

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Subjects involved

• Biology
• Physics
• Modern foreign languages
• History

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Time (from the weekly amount)

• Biology 6 hours
• Physics 3 hours
• History 4 hours

• English 4 hours
• German 4 hours
• Spanish 4 hours

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Materials

• Web pages of the following URLs
• www.ewe.de
• www.enea.it
• www.musis.it

• Thompson et alii, Principles of Physical
  Geography
• Marco Gisotti s newsletter (environmental
  topics) Modus Vivendi

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Activities

• Frontal lessons
• Group work (4 groups on main topics)
• Project work (researches in libraries, in the
  WEB, collecting information from energy suppliers
  in Italy ENEA, ACEA, ENI)

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Evaluation

• Pluridisciplinar test according to the pattern of
  CEDE/INVALSI-Tests (CEDE European Center for
  Education, INVALSI National Institut for
  Educational Systems Evalutation in Italy)

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Main topics for the workshops

• traditionalenergy sources in Italy (comparison
  with other, mainly European, countries)
• renewableenergy sources in Italy (comparison
  with other, mainly European, countries)
• Energy politics a comparison between Italy and
  other countries
• Future perspectives (DEMS Decentrated Energy
  Management Systems, fuel cells, nuclear fusion)

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Short description

• Every human work has an impact on the balance of
  the ecosystems, thus we aim at identifying the
  environmental costs of each energy source, when
  we use it, together with the economic and the
  social ones.