South African EE websites:

50|50 (TV magazine programme)
Transcripts from weekly programmes, ‘Semaka’ questions and answers, fact sheets on environmental topics and related web links.

Biodiversity Explorer
Biodiversity Explorer is devoted to showing and explaining the diversity, biology and interactions of life in southern Africa.

Enviro Facts
60 information, or fact, sheets covering a range of environmental issues. They aim to be concise, up-to-date, and easy-to-understand, with a South African perspective.

Enviropaedia – Rethinking Reality
A comprehensive South African online environmental encyclopaedia and networking directory.

INFOREEP - Internet for Environmental Education Project – UWC
An outdated website due to a 3 year pilot project, but it contains useful EE information and resources.

Pick n Pay Enviro Fact Sheets
Fact sheets on environmental issues, animals, plants, habitats and sustainable living.

Enviro Info 2001 - Department of Environmental Affairs & Tourism
Aimed at a broad spectrum of interest groups including educators and learners who need information on a variety of environmental subjects.

Rhodes University – Environmental Education and Sustainability Unit
Opportunities for undergraduate/postgraduate EE qualifications, information on EE projects, publications and reports.

South African Agency for Science and Technology Advancement (SAASTA)
Science and technology education and awareness. Including useful links and resources to download on subjects such as science, astronomy and sustainable development.

Thutong - SA Education Portal
A Department of Education site which provides a wide range of curriculum and support material for South African learners, educators, education managers/administrators and parents.

Two Oceans Aquarium
Marine resources, such as a children's marine activity book, colouring-in pages and CoastCare fact files for school projects.

University of the Western Cape – Environmental Education and Resources Unit
Information on projects, programmes and web links. Cape Flats Nature Reserve information.

Wildlife and Environment Society of SA (WESSA)
WESSA offers services to schools, educator's groups and other environmental educators, such as Share-Net and the Eco-Schools Programme.

Zeekoevlei Environmental Education Programme (ZEEP)
ZEEP is a non-profit trust that runs high quality, low cost outdoor programmes designed to challenge and change the lives of those young at heart. The emphasis is on safe, fun environmental education.

International EE websites:

ARKive - Images of Life on Earth
A unique collection of thousands of videos, images and fact-files illustrating the world's living species.

ARKive Education
A free multimedia educational resource with downloadable, ready to use audio-visual modules on a wide range of science and environmental based topics.

Education Planet
A directory of Web resources for learners and educators.

EE-Link (A project of the North American Association for Environmental Education)
EE information and resources for educators.

Environmental Protection Agency - Environmental Education
Environmental Education home page of the Environmental Protection Agency in the USA.

Environmental Protection Agency - Teaching Centre
A site for educators who wish to teach about the environment. It offers background information on a variety of topics, lesson plans, and activities that work in and out of the classroom.

Lesson Planet
A directory of lesson plans for educators.

WebQuest
A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web. Educators have embraced WebQuests as a way to make good use of the Internet.

Wikipedia
A searchable and editable online encyclopaedia.

Acknowledgment: These “YES EduNet” Web pages are made possible by funding from the Danida Urban Environmental Management Programme (UEMP).

NOTE: The City of Cape Town is not responsible for the content of external websites, nor does it constitute an endorsement of these websites. They are solely intended to provide additional information sources that may be helpful.

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