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”…
Do You Experience Climate Anxiety?
Do you experience anxiety, grief or fear about climate change? What has that felt like? How have you coped with it?Do you think that this type of distress can be channeled into action?In “Got Climate Anxiety? These People Are Doing Something About It,” Susan Shain writes about the formal and informal support networks that exist…
30 Climate Change Graphs
How can we help students really see climate change when it is a planet-wide process gradually unfolding over decades? Any given hurricane, prolonged drought or scorching hot day (or summer) might be more likely to occur because of the changing climate. But there will always be weather anomalies; just like in sports, records will be…
