Bell Work: Predicting Predict your gateway score: 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 Give three reasons why you think you earned that score

What do you think is most important to protecting the Earth? 1. Think for a few minutes and jot down your ideas. 2. Share / discuss with a neighbor. Rank your choices from most to least importance to you.

Is global warming real? 3. What is your opinion? (yes or no) 4. Why do you have this opinion? Give at least 3 bullets

Two articles – real vs. fiction Make 2 columns on your paper headed real and fiction As you read, jot down information that can be used to discuss and debate the focus question: Is global warming real?

Is global warming real? Discuss with a neighbor. Whole group discussion. Support your opinions Agree or disagree with support Expand on ideas Make generalizations that unite various ideas Summarize

Should we continue to spend so much money on global warming? It is estimated that we have spent around $106.7 billion of taxpayer money from 2003-2010 to try to understand and “fix” global warming. And the spending doesn’t stop there. The same research shows the government has proposed to spend around $1.4 billion in 2012 alone on climate change issues. http://www.policymic.com/articles/3824/a-really-inconvenient-truth-global-warming-is-not-real

Synthesis task: 7. How has your opinion about global warming grown? Where did it start? Where is it now? Was it somewhere else in the middle of our discussion? Give evidence to defend your positions.