Week 13

 11/13/23

Before the Flood

Intense, very doomsday. Follow-up with most of the projects they started isn't great, especially the Paris Agreement. It's very hard to hold whole countries accountable. Until they see even more severe, drastic effects will they ever try to make changes to help our climate?

Changing climate causes bugs to hatch earlier than they have before, causing the bugs to leave by the time birds hatch which means birds have a shortage of food and either migrate to new habitats or go extinct.

Talked about how to read data is an important skill to teach elementary students so we created a quick lesson plan for collecting data, making graphs etc.

Reading graphs about Iowa and Nationwide precipitation and heat. The reason we have all of these graphs is because it's not enough to convince people of rise in hot days, because they think they are outliers or not real. Now we have data about furnaces, growing seasons, precipitation, frost-free days, showing it doesn't mean it's going to be 90° every day but temperatures are still rising.