Solving Environmental Problems through Engineering

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 20.04.10

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction and Rationale
  2. The History of Climate Change
  3. Climate Change Basics: The science behind rising temperatures.
  4. The Greenhouse Gases: More than just CO2
  5. Climate Change: What happens as global temperatures rise.
  6. Climate Change: What are we going to do?
  7. Philadelphia: One city’s likely scenario in the coming climate crisis.
  8. Unit Planning for Middle School Students Studying Climate Change
  9. Pedagogy and Teaching Strategies for this Unit.
  10. Lesson Activities
  11. Bibliography
  12. Endnotes
  13. Appendix on Implementing District Standards

Engineers Wanted: Climate Change Experience Necessary!

Rachel Odoroff

Published September 2020

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Unit Planning for Middle School Students Studying Climate Change

While Hope Jahren’s Story of More is a wonderful book, it is hard to make an argument to children that they should want less. It is an especially tough argument for students who may literally not have enough to begin with: food, space, opportunity. A basic understanding of the science of climate change and the inequities associated with the effects are critical to helping students unpack current debates and political and future realities for them. This generation has grown up in climate change, so they might not see the problem. They have nothing to compare it to. But they are the ones to receive the problem, and they are the ones to be impacted at the greatest level. Climate change has to connect to them, and they have to connect to it.

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