I attended one workshops here in Baltimore City and part of the topics discussed was about the impact of Carbon Concentration in the atmosphere. The facilitator sent us this link for reading:
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/6/1/15724164/9-questions-climate-change-too-embarrassed-to-ask. And I found this article very relevant to what we need to learn and teach to our students in dealing with environmental issues and awareness. Global warming has been part of the controversial talks and issues to be taken cared of, if not solve right away. Because, my students are living in the city and they're in high school now, I would want them to know and understand the importance of our systems and how they can either help or destroy the systems around them. Also, this is article covered several topics in Biology gearing towards NGSS.
I would like to focus on two questions as written on the article and with high hopes that my students will be able to dive in as well. (1) How do we know that global warming is real? (2) How has the world affected the global warming so far?
I would want my students not just to know what is global warming but I would want them to be aware that this is really happening. I would want them to know the reality of it, the causes and impact from one smaller scale down to bigger scale. They live in highly industrialized city where a lot of human activities are happening from their own homes, to community, to city, to state and thus far. I would want them to realize the huge impact of a big climate change. By giving them this big picture about global warming and hoping they will be able to see that they're part it. What they do can actually contribute to it. Lastly, I want them to trace the data of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration (NASA Earth Observatory or NOAA) from the given time frame and analyze these changes.