2009 PUBLIC & SCHOOLS October 20 > 25, 2009 
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Animation and exhibition for Grand Public   NEW  Training course for teachers
A one-week programme of exhibitions and animations has been proposed to grand public and schools at Parc André Citroën (Paris, 15th district). The public and especially the youngest took part in several educational workshops and interactive animations on 5 thematic fields : Weather, Space, Climate, Energies and Environment.   For the first time, a training course in Meteorology and Climate has been proposed to teachers in Physics and Earth Sciences on Wednesday, 21, October.
 
METEO 
Météo-France
How is made a weather forecast?
Weather forecasters working at Meteo-France explained to visitors how they make a weather forecast and the professional material they use. The visitors could also discover how to make a weather bulletin from a weather forecast and how to use it on a map.
 
 
Studio École de France and Studec TV
Become a weather presenter

With the help of professional weather presenters, visitors learned how to present a TV or Radio weather bulletin. Several students from Studio Ecole de France and Studec TV were
 
Many of you participated in the game "the best weather presenter" and won free tickets for the balloon Air de Paris.
 SPACE
ESA
 
Quiz "Cities and Climate Change"
A 20 questions-quizz about Cimate Change
 
Satellites provide assistance to Earth (workshop)
Remote sensing is used for observing and understanding different kind of phenomena such as urban pollution, fires or epidemics. Visitors had to explain causes and consequences (where, why, how, impact) of the observed phenomena.
 
Jigsaw-puzzle about "pollution in the world"
This animation visitors tried to find the pollution level in each country.
   
   
 
CNES
JASON and sea level elevation on coastal areas
Within 30 years, 6 billiards of people will live on coastal areas and a lot of them will be threatened by the sea level rising. A satellite like JASON 2 is very useful to predict the sea level elevation and to evaluate the long-term consequences on environment and human populations.
CALIPSO and urban pollution urbaine by particles
Urban car traffic and industrial activities give an important level of aerosol that have an effect on cloud cover and are monitored by satellites such as CALIPSO or PARASOL. This workshop gave an explanation about the role of the atmosphere in the Climate machine, the role of aérosols and clouds and to discover how important the monitoring is.
CLIMAT

Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers du CNRS
 
What about our future Climate ?
 
What is green house effect ?
What about global warming, its causes and impacts ?
Researchers from the Institute who are working on the climate situation answered to all the questions.
They proposed several experiments about thermohaline, formation of clouds, the Coriolis effect, why the sky is blue and clouds are white etc.

 

ENERGIES

EDF
Do as Alain !
Are you ready to change your behaviour to save the planet ? A photo-studio was settled on the EDF stand and the public had the possibility to have a picture of them, to imagine a slogan for preserving the environment and to write it on the picture.
 
GDF Suez
Model of the Princess Elisabeth station
The Belgian polar station Princess Elisabeth is the first polar station "zero-emissions" working only with renewable energies.
GDF SUEZ, with Electrabel and Laborelec, its research laboratory, comited together with the International Polar Fundation and Alain Hubert, to build the polar station Princess Elisabeth.
ENVIRONNEMENT 

 
ADEME
MtaTerre.fr
Internet web site launched by ADEME (french agency for environment) to test the dayly ecologic behaviour.
Energy and the Cities
What kind of energy problem in cities ? Is you house well isolated ?
Climate is changing
What are the origin of Climate Change and what can we do to ?
About the air quality
Several experiments were proposed about air quality, urban pollution etc
Toward a "green" transport
Interactive games about solutions which are developped to fight against pollution related to transportation.
PSA Peugeot Citroën
Are you an "eco-driver" ?
With a car simulator, the visitors tried to have and ecologic driving behaviour, reducing energy consumption and C02 emissions.
     
Banque Populaire and Fondation Nicolas Hulot
Banque Populaire is acting in the preservation of environment
An interactive quizz was proposed to the visitors in order to test their knowledge about Climate Change fight.
Clmate ultimatum by Fondation Nicolas Hulot
Several games were proposed in order to test knowledge about environment solutions.

Eaux de Paris
 
The Water Bar
Professionals explained to the public how Paris tap water is drinkable and safe for health.
European Union DG Environment
You control Climate Change
A quizz was proposed to the public by Myriam and Anne. nVisitors could test their knowledge about Climate Change.