Environmental Science 12

1. Watch the first two “units” of project Drawdown.  

They are found on the website:  https://drawdown.org/climate-solutions-101 

Videos are embedded in the middle of the page. 

 

Take notes on the main scientific points of each video and comment on the video, ie: was the information presented clearly with no jargon, did they understand the information? Do they think that the information has been peer reviewed? Are the sources sited? What surprised you? What did you already know? - they should take notes. Paper can be “scrap” paper, single sided. 

 

2. For this section use the laptops (I have them booked) Next go to the solutions library on this website: https://drawdown.org/solutions/table-of-solutions 

 

Have them work individually or in teams of two or three and explore this website. They should send (or share) a word document with me explaining: 

1. How is the table organized? How can the columns be re-arranged?  

2. What are 3 solutions you find interesting that you think could be implemented on a local Revelstoke level? Give your own explanation about each solution, explain why they make sense on a local level to implement them.  

3. What are three other solutions that you find interesting- these could only be implemented on a federal level, or globally. Give your own explanation of each solution. Explain what you think Canada would have to do to implement them.  

Environmental Science 12

 Today we started off with the Climate Change Unit by looking at changes in Earth's Climate over time.  We did part of  THIS notes sheet with THIS power point.  

Next we looked at an estimate of our own carbon emissions using the climate hero calculator found HERE.  

and then did a short group activity calculating the carbon emissions savings by two school district employees.  Finally we looked at the project drawdown found HERE.  in order to choose several solutions that we wanted to explore on the local, provincial, federal or international level.