Modeling Climate Change
The Article that I chose is about the declining population of the polar bear population due to the increase in climates temperature. The article is important because it is hitting all of the different factors that polar bears are affected by. It goes in to depth on where each issue is as of right now and where they could be if climate change gets worse. It is important to pay attention to because climate change is a real danger to the society this gives light to the problem that if nothing is done then the polar bears will eventually become extinct.
What effects does sea ice have on polar bear populations?
How do they adapt to changing conditions?
What is the effect of climate change on polar bear populations?
The grand challenge that this would apply to would be the discovering universal mysteries as well as Understanding and sustaining a bio diverse planet. It applies to the universal mysteries because climate change is a topic that is growing and having more go in to every day. There is still a mystery on how to efficiently slow the process of climate change down. The Understanding and sustaining a bio diverse planet pertains to this because students are having to understand how to help slow this problem down.
Montana Mathematics Content Standards for Mathematical Practice: Grades 9–12 Explanations and Examples: HS.MP.2. Reason High school students seek to make sense of quantities and their relationships in problem situations. They abstract a given situation abstractly and and represent it symbolically, manipulate the representing symbols, and pause as needed during the manipulation process in order quantitatively. to probe into the referents for the symbols involved. Students use quantitative reasoning to create coherent representations of the problem at hand; consider the units involved; attend to the meaning of quantities, not just how to compute them; and know and flexibly use different properties of operations and objects.
Students are expected The Standards for Mathematical Practice describe ways in which students ought to engage with the subject matter as they grow in to: mathematical maturity and expertise.
The routine I would use would be the fish bowl technique I would use this technique by asking the three questions stated above: What effects does sea ice have on polar bear populations?, How do they adapt to changing conditions?, and What is the effect of climate change on polar bear populations? after asking these questions I would have the students talk about it with a partner assigned by the teacher. In this the teacher would put together kids that might need a little more motivation in digging deeper in to the topics with the students that are always motivated. This would give the student that struggles finding motivation an easier time understanding the topics at hand. Then pick groups of four to get in the middle of the class and have a discussion about the topics at hand. The rest of the students would sit around them and write down main points that they had questions about for the end of the discussion. After all the questions were answered by the group then the next set of four would be in the middle. This would show the teacher who is paying attention to climate change and who cares about the issue. Giving the teacher more insight to the character or identity of the student.
