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Press
Releases - 1998
New
environmental education teaching kits to be produced
The Environmental
Protection Department (EPD) today (Wednesday) signed a contract
for the production of new environmental education teaching
kits which will be distributed to all secondary schools in
Hong Kong.
Speaking
at the contract signing ceremony, the Acting Director of Environmental
Protection, Mr Mike Stokoe, said that the new teaching kits
should assist our younger generation in understanding our
global and local pollution issues easily.
"Providing
our younger generation with more environmental training can
pave the way for a better protected environment in our future,"
he said.
The contract
was awarded to Woodward-Clyde International Limited which
is required to review the existing kit, known as Anti-Pollution
Pack, and to design and produce 500 new packs for distribution
to the schools. The contract is expected to be completed by
the end of 1998.
Under
the contract, each new pack will include a CD-ROM containing
information about global and local environmental pollution
problems, environmental education and local environmental
protection issues. It will also contain a teacher's guide,
30 A4-size transparencies, 40 slides and 30 photos to be used
for classroom teaching purposes.
The need
to produce a new teaching kit was identified in a survey in
June 1997, which indicated that most of the surveyed school
perceived the existing kits not sufficient to increase students'
environmental knowledge and awareness.
As recommended
by the survey, the new pack will include information such
as waste recycling, energy conservation, green behaviour,
air pollution, noise pollution, sewage treatment and wildlife
endangered species.
The production
of the new teaching kits and the survey on the use of the
existing teaching kits for schools were funded by a donation
of $1.65 million from the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charity Trust.
End/Wednesday,
August 5, 1998
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