I used the Focus The Nation website to help me learn more about global warming and about the FTN project. One of the things which I did to learn something new about global warming was voting on the FTN website about which global warming issues I thought were most important and which ones I thought the government should focus on. I focused my attention on one issue called "invest in the clean energy revolution." This revolution is meant to provide low-cost climate stabilization tools that todays young people will need in the future. I liked this one because it focused on the young people of our future, which in my opinion are the most important people to focus on. This site taught me a lot about the different global warming solutions. Another thing I did to learn something about global warming was by reading the blog called "tree huggers." This blog focuses on the climate and enviornmental friendly lifestyles. I learned about doing small things that can all add up and help save the enviornment such as turning of the lights, not leaving your car running and buying clothes from thrift stores. Another fact which I learned from global warming from this exercise was about different "green" activities which teachers can incorprate in their classrooms such as produce an informative play, have students create a pro climate friendly calander and have students watch enviornmental movies.
By concentrating in health I feel that there is a lot that I can do to incorprate enviornmental health into my classroom. There are many lesson plans which I can create that focus on how pollution affects the health of our enviornment as well as what negative affects these pollutants can have on our health. Something I could do was have my students keep a log of all the things they do that affect the enviornment and never thought of such as how long they shower, do they turn lights off when they leave a room or how much they use their cars. I have taken an environmental health class for my major and I know that there are many activities and lessons that I will be able to bring into my classroom.
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Your lesson plan ideas are great. Let's hope that all teachers will do something to incorporate global warming issues into their curriculum and not just count on health teachers to do it for them.
4/5 due to typos: "todays young people" should be "today's young people"; "turning of the lights" should be "turning off the lights"; "calander"; this sentence has verb tense issues and the list is not parallel: "Something I could do was have my students keep a log of all the things they do that affect the enviornment and never thought of such as how long they shower, do they turn lights off when they leave a room or how much they use their cars."
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