In class;
Students will complete their intro into Climate Change assignment. “What do we know”
Articles can be found below.
| “The Snow Guardian” (2016) from YouTube user Day’s Edge Productions, shows an interview with a man who has monitored 40 years of snowfall in the Colorado mountains: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsZDHTTtSIg Note: Watch the first 3:45 only; |
| “A Subsistence Culture Impacted By Climate Change” (2009) from PBS Learning Media adapted from “Through Arctic Eyes” by the Arctic Athabaskan Council, shows the effects of climate change on the Arctic environment and native peoples. Accessed 26 February 2017. http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/ean08.sci.life.eco.athabaskan Note: Watch the first 2:39 only; |
| “Samoa Under Threat” (2009) from PBS Learning Media adapted from Andrea Torrice’s “Rising Waters: Global Warming and the Fate of the Pacific Islands” distributed by Bullfrog Films, shows the effects of climate change (severe storms) on the residents of the low-lying nation of Samoa. Accessed 26 February 2017. http://wnmu.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/ean08.sci.ess.watcyc.samoa/samoa-under-threat/ Note: Watch all 3:17; |
| “Pacific Sea Level Rise: Two Nations Prepare to Drown” (2010) from YouTube user MediaGlobalNews, shows the effects of climate change (sea level rise) on the people in this low lying nation of Tuvalu. Accessed 26 February 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yPQzLyXmp4 Note: Watch the first 2:52 only; |
| “Overload – Lake Erie Blue Green Algae: Problems & Solutions” (2012) from YouTube user Windsor Essex County Environment Committee shows how Lake Erie shores have been plagued by algal bloom. Accessed 26 February 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik0Jwb69neg Note: Watch the first 1:38 only |
| “Ethiopia Drought 2016: How Climate Change Affects Children.” (2016) from YouTube user UNICEF Canada shows direct and indirect effects of drought in Ethiopia. Accessed 26 February 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgwjXa5NlDc Note: Watch the first 1:08 only |