Put climate change in the curriculum

[YankeyMCC]

By Queen Arsem-O'Malley

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ENVIRONMENTAL consciousness is sweeping the nation. Politicians, vacation destinations, and college campuses all try to attract people with talk of carbon footprints, carbon offsets, and carbon neutrality. And the movement has been fueled by the SIGG-carrying, bike-riding portion of the population - in other words, by young adults.


But while environmental responsibility has become a top concern for colleges, the time has come to make climate change a more prominent subject of earlier schooling as well.
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On the broadest level, students need to understand the science behind climate change and recognize that although the science continues to become more refined, we can act now with the information we have. Students need to become more familiar with the general strategies we will use to lessen the impacts of climate change. Perhaps most importantly, students need to learn to think creatively about climate change, since innovative solutions will be necessary for one of the most challenging problems of our time.
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Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley has already jumped on the solar-powered bandwagon, announcing in April that he would be creating the Children in Nature Partnership to advise him on creating a statewide plan. So where's ours?

Among all proposed educational reforms, climate-change education is a time-sensitive issue that needs to be acted upon immediately.
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Queen Arsem-O'Malley, a Boston Latin senior, was a Ward Fellow with the Globe editorial page this summer.

[Double T]

1. The rethug conservatives will never allow it; the CONs know there is no such thing as........

global warming and climate change.

[Kolesar]

2. I knew a science professor who prepared lesson plans for primary &secondary teachers

He got foundation funding for seminars to train school teachers. The foundation would pay for substitutes for a day so that they could go to a seminar.

[Uncle Joe]

3. Is there a link to this, YankeyMCC?

Thanks for the thread.

[YankeyMCC]

4. Link

Sorry I forgot:

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/12/25/put_climate_change_in_the_curriculum/