Step 1 (Wonder)

During this research you will investigate five different sustainable projects in Rotterdam. Sustainable development literally means: a way of producing and consuming without environmental exhaustion and environmental pollution and minimizing environmental impact.
If you don't remember what sustainability is, look it up in Chapter 4 of your coursebook.

Also watch this video to see what sustainability is about. It is a very huge subject which you can look at from a lot of different perspectives.This video is made by the Port of Rotterdam, which is one of the most sustainable harbours in the world.

You, on the other hand, are going to research the sustainability of the City of Rotterdam.

There are five different themes you can choose from for your sustainability research.
Each group chooses a project from each theme. So you will have 5 projects in total.
There are four themes you must do, for the last theme you can choose between two options.

These are the themes:

So you will choose five different locations and projects, project 1 has to do with sustainable buildings, project 2 with water, project 3 with energy project 4 with greenery and project 5 with mobility or circular.

 

Tip: You can use this website to find sustainable projects.

Duurzaam010: website over duurzaamheid van de gemeente Rotterdam

You are also allowed to search on the web to find suitable projects.

Make sure you choose projects that you think are interesting. You will have to give a lot of information about these locations. So don't only take the simple ones. Have you chosen five locations/projects? Then download the document underneath and fill it in.


Location form:

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When you're done, send the document to your geography teacher via teams.
Don't go on with step two untill you have permission from your teacher on your locations.
The documents I receive first, will also be the ones that get their permission first.
If you send in your document last, it might be that you have to choose a lot of different projects because your projects are already taken. We don't want to many of the same projects in one class.

After the permission of the teacher you can go to step 2.