Hi, my name is Kathy, and I teach at Poolesville High School in Montgomery County. I teach biology and environmental biology in the global ecology magnet program. I am taking this class for the last credits that I need for my recertification I have taken a lot of online classes over the years just to get the credits and be done with it. This year, I decided to take a class that I actually hope to learn something from.
We already teach about climate change, and I have a basic understanding of the issue. Too often, teaching about human's impact on the environment can be suuuuper depressing. And people get overwhelmed and tune it all out. It is too much, too big, too bad, too abstract from their life. Through this class, I would like to find a way to teach it to my students and break through that white noise and make climate change a real issues for them.
I am looking forward to it!