Students in Alabama will now learn about both climate change and evolution, under new standards that experts say treat the topics with more scientific accuracy than they did before.
Under the new standards, which were adopted unanimously by the school board last week, Alabama students of environmental science will “analyze and interpret data and climate models to predict how global or regional climate change can affect Earth’s systems (e.g., precipitation and temperature and their associated impacts on sea level, glacial ice volumes, and atmosphere and ocean composition).” They’ll also learn about how changes in climate influence human activity (the standards give mass migrations as one example).
In addition, students in earth and space science classes will be exposed to data — including global levels of greenhouse gases and temperature maps — that will help them “describe how various human activities (e.g., use of fossil fuels, creation of urban heat islands, agricultural practices) and natural processes (e.g., solar radiation, greenhouse effect, volcanic activity) may cause changes in local and global temperatures over time.”
Read more at This Southern State Made a Big Commitment to Start Teaching About Climate Change
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