Sixth grade analyzes climate change

In the sixth grade Block class Stories and Conversations about Climate Change, students have been learning about the processes that warm the atmosphere. As a part of the course, students acted as carbon dioxide molecules and photons to dramatize the interactions between energy and molecules, collected and tested car exhaust, analyzed graphs, modeled the behavior of light photons with beans, and evaluated the impact of increased carbon dioxide on warming. They used a carbon calculator to investigate their own carbon footprint.

Students shared their thoughts and feelings about climate change on a feelings board during the six-week course. As their culminating activity, the students became advocates themselves by preparing and having conversations with adults in the Poly community about what they learned.
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