by msander | Jan 27, 2018 | Gr 4-6 Science & Tech, Gr 7-8 Science & Tech, Gr 9-10 Science, Gr. 11-12 Biology, Gr. 11-12 Chemistry
The fate of the Amazon rainforest has never been as uncertain as it is right now. To understand the forces that are shaping its future, Stephanie Nolen travelled 2,000-kilometres along a dusty, dangerous corridor through a fragile ecosystem on which the world depends...
by msander | Jan 13, 2018 | All Science Teachers
Consider this cold comfort: A quick study of the brutal recent cold snap in Canada and the U.S. found that the Arctic blast really wasn’t global warming but a freak of nature. Source: Recent deep freeze can’t be blamed on climate change, study...
by msander | Jan 7, 2018 | All Science Teachers
Time between bleaching events has shrunk, leaving coral with insufficient time to recolonize Source: Coral reefs around globe being pummelled by climate change: study
by msander | Oct 12, 2017 | Gr 1-3 Science & Tech, Gr 4-6 Science & Tech, Gr 7-8 Science & Tech, Gr 9-10 Science
As powerful storms wreak havoc across the globe, we keep hearing about the important of 2-degrees—a threshold set by many policymakers in the discussion of global warming. NPR Science Correspondent Christopher Joyce explains the changes 2-degrees of warming might...
by msander | Sep 24, 2017 | All Science Teachers, Teaching Strategies
Climate change is a challenge for the entire world, and it may present formal education with its greatest challenge. How do teachers teach about a long-term problem that is evolving rapidly and changing the environment in real time? Yet a challenge is often an...
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