Tanya Orozco
Alley
5-12-08
Teach Climate Change-essay
In the article, ‘Teach Climate Change’ by Wagner and Gorski, it talks about the reasons why global changes should be taught in class. And it has become necessary to teach the future generations about this huge problem that can affect their lifestyle in the future. The writers explain that since global warming is no longer being debated, because a huge majority does agree, and because of this huge issue regarding the future of planet earth and how everyone should be more knowledgeable in this matter. They also make the point on how to make this information more interesting and fun. Because of the lack of the interest teenagers have in science, if they wanted to properly teach the subject and get the students to soak up the information by making it fascinating in the science classes, because science is the perfect subject to get people thinking more about the planet- and it helps us figure out more about the planet so that we can understand what we can do to stop the damages being done to the planet.
The reason why it would become necessary for the education about the subject of environmental science to the future generations of our time is the fact that global warming is not long being debated and it should be tough to the students so they are aware of what happening to their home- because this planet is theirs too. The more information they conceive on the matter, the better they can understand it. And they can also understand how it will affect them. They might have to give up many of their resources that they are very comfortable with, just so they stop damage that is being caused to the earth and that they can continue living their lives- maybe not the same as before but they’ll still be living. So, by teaching this to students in high school now, it can jump start the awareness on the subject matter- and maybe it will even sprout out a couple of bright kids that will devote their life to study it and gather more information on it.
However, what about the process that should be thought about so that the subject matter is taught properly to the students? I remember being in high school and thinking about how interesting environmental studies were- but not all teenagers are like this. So how can this subject be more interesting for the students? Would there be the need for flashy sound effects on the huge projector screen? Probably, since television has turned into the top professor of the world- it would be best to make a highly informative educational video on global warming. No matter how bad that sounds, it’s the truth- most students rather have a video day then read out of a huge text, but then again there are some who are unlike their peers, they enjoy reading. But that’s turned into a minority, and the majority are a bunch of television watching beach kids.
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