Students will be able to:
use information from the movie The Day After Tomorrow and the series Planet Earth to
-understand humankind's role in the biosphere as it relates to Earth.
Students in the first and second period classes viewed the movie The Day After Tomorrow.
Students in later periods viewed episodes from Planet Earth to understand how humankind has changed the Earth and affected the lives of other living things on Earth.
Home learning 7 is to find a current event article from either the newspaper or online that discusses an environmental issue. The article must not be more than two weeks old. You are to summarize the article, explain the science in the article and discuss humankind's involvement or actions in causing or participating in the event.