This website informs readers about aviation's role in climate change.
Students will learn about the effects aviation has on climate change and the problems with current flying alternatives.
Teaching Tips
Positives
This amazing resource gives clear information about the climate impacts of aviation.
A variety of beautiful infographics provide data on why flying is so bad for the environment.
Additional Prerequisites
Students should have prior knowledge of climate change and the greenhouse effect.
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The link to the Aviation Emissions and the Paris Agreement is broken.
Differentiation
Groups of students could read about each topic and share their learnings with the class. There are nine topics in total. Topics include "What is the climate impact of aviation?" and "How bad is flying for your carbon footprint?"
Economics or government classes could discuss the government's role in aviation.
Scientist Notes
There is no contradiction in the article. The resource is recommended for teaching.
Standards
College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Standards
Dimension 4: Taking Informed Action
D4.7.6-8 Assess their individual and collective capacities to take action to address local, regional, and global problems, taking into account a range of possible levers of power, strategies, and potential outcomes.
Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
ESS3: Earth and Human Activity
HS-ESS3-1 Construct an explanation based on evidence for how the availability of natural resources, occurrence of natural hazards, and changes in climate have influenced human activity.
HS-ESS3-4 Evaluate or refine a technological solution that reduces impacts of human activities on natural systems.
