The environment of the Baltic and farming in the Eastern European and Baltic countries are under debate.

 

               Must the farms in the East be as efficient and competitive as e.g. Danish farms, and what will be the consequences of this?

 

               How can the new EU-countries learn from the experience that has been gained in the old EU-countries?

 

               Why is paper industry a problem?

 

               What are the consequences of oil spill from ships?

 

               How well is waste water cleaned?

 

               How are farming areas used?

 

               What is the significance of salinity for plants and animals?

 

You can find the answers to these questions in this material:

 

 

"The conditions of the environment in the Baltic".

 

 

The teaching material about the Baltic Sea and the Baltic Region is selected for use in the ‘gymnasium and hf’ (upper secondary school).

The material consists of five main pages and a number of topical pages.

The idea for this material comes from the leadership from Fyns Amt (The county of Funen) of the BERNET-project (Baltic Eutrophication Regional Network).

 

GLOBE-Danmark has supported the work on this teaching material financially.

 

The objective is to bring a report with a very large amount of documented material – which really has a political aim, cf the Helsinki convention and the EU – into the everyday teaching, and to supply and link material as a help to thematic teaching, sparing the individual teacher the work of digging up relevant material.

 

The main pages are closely linked to the material from the BERNET-report. One important exception is the page about natural geography where the formation of the Baltic since the ice age is described. This material is used with the permission from GEUS. On the topical pages is some material from the BERNET- report, but to some extent new material and links are being added.

 

The material can also be used in interdisciplinary teaching in the ‘gymnasium and hf’. It is possible to remain on a more superficial level, but it is also possible to dig into deeper analyses of one or more of the many subjects that are treated within the circle of environmental problems around the Baltic. Thus, one can include a varying amount of material depending on the level of the students and the time allocated.

Some links lead to Danish pages, some to Nordic, of which some are in English.

 

Ulla Lastein
Odense Katedralskole, Denmark.