Week 30 - Biology

Climate Change

We’ll use this week to describe how the carbon emissions released since the dawn of the industrial revolution at an unprecedented rate has caused global mean temperatures to rise.

BY THE END OF THIS WEEK, you should be able to:

  • define climate change,

  • describe misconceptions associated with climate change,

  • analyze evidence associated with climate change,

  • describe how people in different places on the planet are affected by climate change in different ways, and

  • discuss solutions to solve climate change.

Your Week Ahead

Day 1: Catching up with Prisoner’s Dilemma

  1. We’ll finish the discussion of evolution by connecting it with climate change. We’ll then create our own thermometer to describe how the planet has changed since the industrial revolution if we have time.

  2. After class, let’s get back to the journal basics. You have journal due next week, so get it done before the break. It can be on any observation you’d like (as long as it’s a 30-minute observation).

 

Day 2: Climate Change through the Stages of Grief

  1. We’ll continue by watching a video describing climate change through the stages of grief. This topic can be difficult for some to grasp the real impact we’ve caused, so we introduce more details with our friend, Bill Nye the Science Guy.

 

Day 3: No Class

From missing Monday due to advisory conferences.

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IMPORTANT DATES

.Quizzes on Organismal Diversity beginning week 32.

Did you…?

  • … submit your Gizmos activity on Monday?

  • … finish your terms to know from the past two weeks?