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Donnetta Elsasser

I am always looking for short snippets of complicated topics. Sometimes I want to give students just a taste, so they will follow up with their own curiosity. Sometimes, I'm just time-bound, so I insert a little thing, in hopes to follow up with another little thing later. 

I stumbled across this recently:

 RE: Climate project initial introduction 

You've got to take a look!

And then I have a question for the masses: 

If you only have time for a small slice of Climate Education within your current class,

would you focus on factors leading to climate change? Or ways to adapt and mitigate the problems produced by climate change?

  •  , this is a really interesting question! I think I would have previously chosen factors leading to climate change, but I recently attended a workshop through Rutgers that focused a lot on how NJ shore towns are trying to mitigate problems of rising sea levels. It was really interesting and focused on our state. I think students would appreciate learning about something that they can connect with on a more personal level.

  • Great question! I think like Andrea said, it depends on whether your community is currently getting hammered by the effects of climate change or if it's a bit more of a concept in the background for them. However, it seems that soon the effect of climate change will be in all of our doorsteps.

    I would say that if your community is affected by sunny day flooding, dramatic increases in extreme weather, agricultural impacts, wildfires or similar visible effects of climate change, I'd start with mitigation and adaptation.

    But if it's more theoretical and the community is less directly impacted, start with the causes but use data specific to your community to make it real. There is still data available on many weather websites where you can access historical temperature data for your region and have students graph a subset of the data to show how much the temperature has increased where you are. Correlate that with record high temps for your region and watch how that number has increased.