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Accelerating Climate Change--Why Is It Happening?

Completed by 8 learners
Ages 10-15
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The period after World War II was a time of international industrialization that speeded up human impact on the environment and made the world is becoming aware of increasingly rapid climate change.
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4.9
Number of reviews:
(692 reviews)

Live video meetings
Meets once
3-6 learners per class
55 min

What's included

1 live meeting
55 mins in-class hours

Class Experience

US Grade 5 - 8
Intermediate Level
Since the end of World War II, the development of a global economy spread the European and American standard of living, thereby dramatically increasing the environmental consequences of industrial society. The impacts of using fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas) along with surging world population and the use of manufactured chemicals like plastics and fertilizer grew at astounding rates, making scientists aware of changes in the atmosphere and oceans that were heating up the Earth.  Since the year 2000, historians and scientists have been calling the period since 1945 "The Great Acceleration" because the many human-generated components that are heating the climate have been going up at an increasing rate of speed and have not yet begun to moderate.

The class will learn the causes of climate change and how accelerating change is being seen in a variety of weather events that are teaching us new terms like "rain bomb" and "atmospheric river." NOAA studies on future impacts of climate change will be discussed.

Main points of content will be on a slide show that will be given to students at the end of the class.

Learning Goals

Students will learn important environmental consequences of human actions in world history. The consequences of accelerating environmental change will be seen in recent weather events.

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Important information will be derived from YouTube videos of weather events and news coverage of NOAA reports on future impacts of climate change.

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Joined May, 2020
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Teacher expertise and credentials
Edward Simmons has an M.A. and  Ph.D. in history from Vanderbilt University. He teaches American and World History at Georgia Gwinnett College, in Lawrenceville, GA, where he has been instrumental in organizing an annual conference on current environmental issues. 

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