Do You Think You Make Good Climate Choices?
In “Think You’re Making Good Climate Choices? Take This Mini-Quiz,” Veronica Penney’s four-question quiz assesses your understanding of the efficacy of different climate choices. The quiz takes less than five minutes; we recommend that you answer the four quiz questions before moving on.Ms. Penney then discusses the results of a study in which most participants…
Are You Going to a Youth Climate Strike?
Find all our Student Opinion questions here. Did you know about the youth climate strikes that are happening around the world this Friday? Will you be attending? If so, what is your school’s policy about skipping classes to be there? In “Climate Strike N.Y.C.: 1.1 Million Can Skip School for Protest,” Anne Barnard writes: When…
Learning With: ‘A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of Secrecy’
2. Why is the fungus C. auris so tenacious and so difficult to eradicate, according to the article? 3. Explain, in your own words, how the overuse of antibiotics can lead to drug-resistant bacteria and fungi like C. auris? How do germs evolve defenses to survive modern medicines? 4. Who is most vulnerable to “superbugs”…
Student Climate Strikes
From Sydney to Seoul and Cape Town to New York, children skipped school en masse on March 15 to demand action on climate change. What issues in your community, your country or the world do you think deserve more attention? What is one that you would take a stand on, like the students pictured above…
