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Teachers prepare for global heating lesson plan

Teachers prepare for global heating lesson plan

Teachers prepare for global warming lesson plan

New Jersey’s public school teachers are preparing to add climate change lessons into their classrooms by September. 

To help, the New Jersey Schools Boards Association and Sustainable Jersey, an organization that assists municipalities and schools with environmental sustainability, A new 36-page report has been releasedMonday will be a guideline on how to get ready.

“Education means preparing students for the future,” Lawrence S. Feinsod (executive director of the New Jersey School Boards Association) stated during A livestreamThe report. “Many of those children who enter kindergarten in September this year will likely live to the 22nd Century.”

By 2100, today’s kindergarteners could see sea level along New Jersey’s coast rise by as much as 8.8 feet in a worst-case scenario, though scientists say increases between 1.7 and 6.3 feet are more likely, according to climate and emissions projections by Rutgers University’s NJ Climate Change Resource Center. These results could prove to be devastating for New Jersey’s coastal communities.

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