In the 5/6th grade science class we've been studying Wind. The book started out with the atmosphere, circled through grand winds (via Hadley cycle), land-ocean breezes, etc.. next was cloud types, then basic meteorology (think cold/warm fronts) and finally tornadoes and hurricanes. Fun stuff, right? It's been good. Today we were supposed to talk about air pollution, so I started out by asking them what they thought of when they hear the word "Pollution".. lots of answers, and so we got a list up on the board.
With the list I started connecting various things together and spent quite a while talking about how much energy we actually get from fossil fuels. They are the significant source of energy, and of our everyday plastic, actually. The students were surprised that so much comes from fossil fuels (petroleum and coal), and then, just as I was opening the book to read the tiny section the book has on air pollution, we ran out of class time.
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