Content Objectives
The city of Gilroy is approximately twenty-five miles South of San Jose, and its economy is predominantly agriculture based. Some of the main crops grown in Gilroy include garlic, tomatoes, onion, flowers, and prunes. Gilroy has gained fame as the “Garlic Capital of the World.”4 It is best known for the annual Gilroy Garlic Festival which started in 1979 and has drawn thousands of garlic lovers from around the world. There are several stores and restaurants where people can enjoy genuine Gilroy garlic products year-round. I wish to bring awareness to my students about how agricultural practices will need to be altered in California to adapt to global climate change. Since Gilroy is located so close to my school, referring to Gilroy will allow my students to get a perspective of what crop changes Gilroy farmers will make along with the rest of the farmers in California to deal with climate change effects.
This unit is designed to bring awareness among students that climate change is happening, and how the changed climate is going to affect us in the next 50 years in California. To build background knowledge students will learn the meanings of various vocabulary words, which include annual rainfall, agriculture, chilling hours, precipitation, groundwater recharge, levees, fallowed fields, threshold temperature, hardiness zones, intense, frequent, unpredictable, replenish, variability, subsurface, climate zone, evaporation, and constrained.
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