As an activity to learn more about global warming I searched the "Focus the Nation" website and found a forum that interested me. This particular forum was focused on the correlation between alternate forms of energy and the job opportunities that can be provided by them. I also read a forum about how to cut energy and save money. A few things that I learned are that :
- I learned that the state of Maine actually has an engergy efficency law.
- Due to this law the state should have about 9.5 million dollars available for energy efficient programs.
- That California is a leading example of an energy efficient state.
Every solution that I viewed sounded fantastic until the question of who is going to foot the bill was proposed. Every person who presented an idea also ended with saying that a federally mandated tax of some sort should be imposed to pay for this. I don't think that is the solution. How can you get someone excited about preventing global warming when you want to take away half of their pay check? The answer is you can't. Instead I think that global warming prevention is going to have to take a grass roots effort. So I would teach my students how to do a combind number of small things that would eventually make a large impact. Things such as low efficency light bulbs. Using less water. Increasing gass milage. Also I would ask them to research alternative forms of energy like wind, solar, or water. I would ask them to research new hybrid or electric vehicles including vehicles that use energy forms such as ethenol. If one person was to change all of the small things like these in their own life-style it would make an impact, if many people were to change this it would make a huge impact.
1 comment:
You did a good job of finding an interesting source and learning new things. I'm not clear how your lesson example ties in with English. I know you'll want to do more than have them write a research paper on Global Warming. Think outside the box and tell me a way that you could use Global Warming as a topic to help your students learn something you need to teach in English. 3/5
-1 due to errors in mechanics of writing: your bulleted list is not parallel in its structure; "Things such as low efficency light bulbs. Using less water. Increasing gass milage." -- these three things are not sentences--use other punctuation. Also, check the spelling of efficency, gass, and milage; in this sentence "If one person was to change all of the small things like these in their own life-style" you have a singular subject (one person) and a plural pronound (them).
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