how would you explain climate change and weather to kids?
Posted: Tue 07 May 2019, 22:47:41
perhaps this is the wrong crowd to ask, being somewhat doomish and all given this peak oil forum BUT thought I'd ask anyway,... how would you explain weather and climate change to elementary school kids (w/ out scaring the shit out of them)???
long story short, I've donated a bunch of sub-irrigated planters to an elementary school AND the population is basically lets say economically and socially challenged (i.e. behind the eight ball so to speak)
anyway there is an established school garden, started by a parent not from the neighborhood who is trying to get the population which is predisposed to various health issues,... because of the diet,... heavy on the meats, sugar drinks and devoid of fruits and veg
there has been a program at the school and in the area trying to teach the population the importance of diet and health BUT as I see things, having an established garden is a missed opportunity to teach some real science and math, so one of the items I also donated is a weather station so kids and teachers get use to looking at data and learn not to fear "hard" science and math subjects (which in the long run really pays off)
Science And Math Majors Earn The Most Money After Graduation
https://www.businessinsider.com/stem-ma ... ion-2014-7
basically we know the climate is changing both in the political realm as well as in the real world,... and the only way to mitigate the symptoms is to use "hard" science and math concepts to develop and build countermeasures
anyway was asked to drop by some time to discuss w/ interested students/teachers the big picture of weather and how it relates to growing stuff, along with how the environment is impacted,... I'm waiting for a small science prop to arrive from amazon I thought would be useful to try and put things into context,... basically a small globe, and my idea is to start off with trying to explain orbital dynamics of the earth and sun, and the scale of things in space,... which hopefully gets the audience to appreciate the difference between weather and climate
yeah I know this sounds kinda nebulous so created PDF outline on GoogleDocs,... have a look would be interested in feedback,... basically its how I arrived at the conclusion that we have a real serious problem
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1EBiZ8 ... QpIbwPjL9o
or try the "redirect"
http://www.tinyURL.com/HowBigIsTheEarth
long story short, I've donated a bunch of sub-irrigated planters to an elementary school AND the population is basically lets say economically and socially challenged (i.e. behind the eight ball so to speak)
anyway there is an established school garden, started by a parent not from the neighborhood who is trying to get the population which is predisposed to various health issues,... because of the diet,... heavy on the meats, sugar drinks and devoid of fruits and veg
there has been a program at the school and in the area trying to teach the population the importance of diet and health BUT as I see things, having an established garden is a missed opportunity to teach some real science and math, so one of the items I also donated is a weather station so kids and teachers get use to looking at data and learn not to fear "hard" science and math subjects (which in the long run really pays off)
Science And Math Majors Earn The Most Money After Graduation
https://www.businessinsider.com/stem-ma ... ion-2014-7
basically we know the climate is changing both in the political realm as well as in the real world,... and the only way to mitigate the symptoms is to use "hard" science and math concepts to develop and build countermeasures
anyway was asked to drop by some time to discuss w/ interested students/teachers the big picture of weather and how it relates to growing stuff, along with how the environment is impacted,... I'm waiting for a small science prop to arrive from amazon I thought would be useful to try and put things into context,... basically a small globe, and my idea is to start off with trying to explain orbital dynamics of the earth and sun, and the scale of things in space,... which hopefully gets the audience to appreciate the difference between weather and climate
yeah I know this sounds kinda nebulous so created PDF outline on GoogleDocs,... have a look would be interested in feedback,... basically its how I arrived at the conclusion that we have a real serious problem
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1EBiZ8 ... QpIbwPjL9o
or try the "redirect"
http://www.tinyURL.com/HowBigIsTheEarth