Objectives
My main objective is to teach my students about the main issues of the science of global warming. I want my students to have a grasp of the scientific facts that explain global warming, a conviction that global warming is a pressing issue for all of us, an ability to speak up about global warming and to discourse intelligently about this challenge, and the desire to participate in the public discourse. The students will get a basic understanding of global warming and be able to incorporate that knowledge into a greater understanding of physical science (S2). Students will improve their capacity for making discerning judgments about issues related to science and will be able to appreciate the scientific method as a valuable and useful approach to decision making. The students will be able to use their observations to evaluate the veracity of knowledge and be able to identify issues that are still unknown (S1, S5). The students will be able to understand the evolving nature of science and the method that scientist use to make truth claims (S7). The students will appreciate the role that the advances in technology have played in the study of global warming and be able to access internet resources (S9). The students will acquire the terms and language to discuss global warming (C5). The students will be able to communicate their ideas, express their opinions, and defend the relative reliability of different theories. The students will engage in class discussions (C6, C7, C8). The students will improve mathematical skills in understanding formulas, calculating results, representing their data graphically and comprehending the implication of mathematical expressions (M1, M2, M4, M5, M6).
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