If you are planning to teach whether it be your kids or school kids. A complete teaching material and method for teaching global warming for kids that you can use is the UCS (Union of concerned scientist) curriculum guide.
This is a 30 page curriculum guide of global warming for kids from grades 9 to 12. However it is notable to know that the individual exercise in this curriculum can be easily refined to be used for other grade levels as well.
The reason why this material should be used for teaching global for kids to understand is because the web resources here that student and teacher will use are first rate and authority base driven.
A run down on the four activities presented in UCS curriculum guide used to teaching global warming for kids addresses the immediate environment we are living in.
First of the activity is titled climate change in my city. In this activity student are required to look up the historical climate index and analyze climate changes of at three different scales, local, regional and global.
The second activity is an oral history project. The students are required to interview older residents in their community and ask them about their experience with climate changes in their lifetime. They will later compare what they found out to the climate change index from historical temperature measurements.
The third activity in this teaching material of global warming for kids will be climate change and disease. During this activity, student will look into researching and finding out the relationship between hosts, parasites, common vector borne diseases and find out how climate change to what level climate change actually affect the spreading of these diseases.
Their last and fourth activity in this global warming for kids teaching will be about climate change and ecosystems. Student will be looking to their immediate surroundings to observe their ecosystem. What they will be doing is to research about the interdependencies of animals and plants in an ecosystem and find out whether climate change will affect these interdependent animals and plants and to what extent.
Each of these activities will include an engagement exercise and a student exploration project with some ideas for an extended study. UCS curriculum guide is really suitable for teaching global warming for kids because they are scientifically accurate, sound and does not reflect any biases in their material.
I think it’s great that sites like this exist to help adults educate kids about global warming and its effects. It’s up to us as the guardians of these children to educate them and let them know about this issue. But sadly, most adults are the ones who are helping towards global warming.
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