Earth Day

• Biologie
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 1

Wisconsin and The Netherlands

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Earth Day

Dutch Challenges

High Population density

Loads of water

Massive amount of farms

What challenges do you know of in Wisconsin

Dutch Nature

Green Bridges

National park The Veluwe

5400 hectare

201 Square Miles

Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest

1,530,647 Hectare

5909 Square Miles

Nature 2000 rule

What kinds of energy are used around the world? Are they renewable?

Green energy

Windmills on Dutch fields

Windmills near farms

Windmills in the north sea

The Netherlands is aiming for 70% renewable energy by 2030

How many windmills do you think there are in Wisconsin, how about the Netherlands? (ex. Wi, 100/NL, 50)

Pollution

From 2030, 100% of new vehicles sold will be electric!

Public transport

Ride your bicycle

Farming

Farming 1.0: Using your own two hands

Farming 2.0: Large-scale farming

Farming 3.0: Precision Farming

Farming 4.0: ???

What: Find out about local initiatives from your city/state/country, related to the three topic

How: Divide the class up into three, equal-sized groups. group 1 will focus on Energy, group 2 on pollution, group 3 on energy.

Help: Talk to each other and discuss things that you know about/have seen around you. You may use your laptops or mobile devices and look up further information on the internet

Time: You will have 10 minutes to find out as much as you can

Outcome: You will use the information you have found in small group discussions

Links

https://meet.google.com/mcf-gmgx-zra

https://meet.google.com/btr-bpva-aav

https://meet.google.com/rgr-wfvd-kub

Discussions

Would banning cars be a good solution in Wisconsin? 

What are you satisfied with that Wisconsin does? 

What do you think is good about what the Netherlands does? What could the two places learn from each other? 

Recap

Share the results of your discussions in class