global warming for 5th graders

i wouldnt worry about it. when the original thing went down we had a thread about it. the parent that was mad was named frosty, he stated that the earth was only 14,000 years old, that global warming was predicted in the bible and is just part of the apocalypse, and that condoms didnt belong in school and neither does al gore because he wasnt a teacher. which is funny because al gore is a university professor ;D so unless you live in bible country id just show the science of it. which al gores movie does an excellent job of showing. its science. its shown in classrooms around the world. and even if it caused some problems at least youd know you did your best to actually educate you students. parents like frosty should send their kids to bible school if they want them to learn about fantasy, quit holding back the teaching of reality and facts to my kid. but im rambling. its a habit. but i say show it and skip the other one. unless you think its factual. i only watched the first couple minutes so i cant say. i wouldnt use it as an educational tool from what i saw of it. it seemed completley political. which gores movies is not in any way. contrary to what many think. i will try to find the link to the post that discussed the whole thing.

hahha.. i teach in East Harlem.

thats ironic that there was a thread on here.. the thread i found was a random one from google. karma for searching for it!

It is a million times more factual then the bible. If the bible werent fantasy then they wouldnt teach it as so at colleges. I'm not trying to bible bash, but come on, how can someone who looks at it unbiased say its not fantasy.

fantasy it's not taught as fantasy ...u never been to college if u think it's taught like a lord of the rings novel sorry ziggy but the only fantasy is the world is going to burn up if we don't buy an electric car that is fantasy and should be taught as such

I am a resonable person and so are millions of people in the world. they look and don't see lord of the rings. Don't worry it's cool the egyptians believed in an after life and many billions have since ....if u somehow know more than billions that came before u then I bow my hat and ask u to prove it;s fantasy

yeah u are right oatmeal we all have different views. which is cool but we need to respect others views and not call a religious book fantasy..it's just a respect thing ......I promise I won't say anything bad about the periodic table of elements

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I dont know, more then one of us are showerless....

^ How about a a casual, stinky, sweaty, gritty Bonnaroo group nod?

Americans produce over 45% of the green house gasses released in the world. Signifcantly more than any other country. Thats almost half of the world. If we can get half of the world to help, thats a BIG start. And think about the snowball effect that would occur. Soon you could have lots of that cut down...but it does need to be done regardless of what other nations want to do. We can't sit back and say "We'll do something, but only if everyone else does it first.:

FROSTY!!!! IS THAT YOU??!!

well not to continue anything. but i didnt say the bible was fantasy (although i beleive it is) i said that saying the earth is 14000 years old and global warming is caused by the bible is fantasy. and i didnt say al gores not political i said his movie wasn t and it isnt. nothing you say makes any sense at all so im just not gonna talk to you about it.
ya man...al gore invented the internet. i think you should quit using it in protest!

I for one have not seen the movie **gasp** but as a parent of a 13 yo and a 9 yo - they need to understand what we are doing to our climate and how it affects us all. I would not have a problem with it. Now condoms being handed out in school would be another thing (if I had not already educated my children about that aspect of life)

P.S. ^^^^and I am a Christian with a lot of faith in the Bible - but I also believe in evolution and the Big Bang - just because you have faith in a religion does not mean that you have blinders on and take everything the Bible says word for word

thanks!! i will be honest here.. its pretty damn hard, and i cant wait for june.. cause my first year is breaking me hard!

but look at this thread go! I personally dont think showing the movie is going to be any more beneficial than the science lessons ive been teaching them about greenhouse gases, emissions, and the effects. I just think my fellow teachers who decided on the movie thing mustve gotten really excited when they first saw the movie. As if they have never heard of all of this before. Not to sound cocky, but i honestly think having me teach them the basics of how the weather cycle and carbon cycle works would be a more beneficial experience than watching I.T. and gore for hours.

BUt i did enjoy the movie. My students who have LD's and ED's are less apt to enjoy it. Except for maybe the part when they show you about the polar bears dying. I guess we will see if i show it this week!

Lastly... as for the U.S. taking a stand, and us waiting until other countries do something about it... well check out the Kyoto Treaty.. and consider why it is void of our signature.

Sure we can lead by example. It may be true we produce 45% of the worlds greenhouse gases today . This is b/c we are an industialized nation. More and more India, china are growing and many other countries are also growing their industry. So in the near future these countries will over take or come close to the amount of greenhouse gases we release today.

Remember we can't force other countries to come on board. Why would the middle east want to get rid of using oil?? They will never support other technologies. Why would a growing nation such as India want to spend billions on alternative fuels when they can grow their nations using coal or other cheap fuel sources??

So in order to reduce greenhouse gases the entire world has to get on board or it will be doomed for failure. Hell we can't even get the world to aggree training your kids to become sucide bombers is wrong how the hell we gonna get the world to use friendly energy sources.....