The transport problem - weblinks
The following web sites provide additional information linked to the topics in the SATIS Revisited unit The transport problem.
The Ethical Emporium – website offering resources for teaching ethics in the classroom: http://www.windfalldigital.com/ethicalemporium/
Nuffield Science for Public Understanding – website resources mainly for A/AS level
http://www.scpub.org/
Physics Ethics in Education website for details on energy ethics
http://www.peep.ac.uk/content/717.0.html
Information about competing energy needs depending on different viewpoints
http://www.peep.ac.uk/content/1014.0.html
Fuels activity
http://www.peep.ac.uk/content/871.0.html
Quiz and some scenarios for students to work through
http://www.peep.ac.uk/content/870.0.html
About the carbon express and transport – how to reduce C emissions
http://www.peep.ac.uk/content/929.0.html
BioEthics in Education website for information on ethical issues in biology
www.beep.ac.uk/content/280.0.html
POST reports on:
Prospects for a hydrogen economy – October 2002 Number 186
http://www.parliament.uk/post/pn186.pdf
Low carbon private vehicles – January 2006 Number 255
http://www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/postpn255.pdf
Transport biofuels – August 2007 Number 293
http://www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/postpn293.pdf
New Economics Foundation – DEMOCS stands for deliberative meeting of citizens. The website has a card game and a policy-making tool that enables small groups of people to engage with complex public policy issues
http://www.neweconomics.org/
Science and Development Network – website has useful links and activities
http://scidev.net/en/
BBC news report on the hybrid car
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4015831.stm
Details and comparisons of hybrid car with others:
http://www.onlineuniversities.net/electric-cars
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