1. What if There Were No Seasons?
Close Reading

2. Brainstorm
Do you think we could survive without seasons?

3. Vocabulary: Define each word and draw a picture
Ecological Anthropology stratified congregate population density archetype Disease pathogens mortality morbidity malaria and tsetse flies

4. What if There Were No Seasons?

5. 1st Read
What 2 things the resulted from an impact with a Mars sized object in Earth’s early formation?

6. Re-read first chunk Introduction to What’s the Forecast?
What would we be missing in society without seasons?
Where would humans be congregated if there were no seasons?

7. Re-read second chunk What’s the Forecast to Winter’s Role
Why would a high population density area not be successful on an Earth without seasons?
How does an arid (dry) tropic compare to the humid tropical zone?

8. Re-read third chunk Winter’s Role to END
How is it beneficial to human development that there is a winter season for a large portion of the globe ?
How was winter responsible for the Industrial Revolution and STEM?

9. Discussion:
Earth’s tilt is not likely to change; but, global climate change could effect winter.
Predict how global warming, caused by an increase of heat in the atmosphere will make milder winters.

10. 3rd Read
Read the entire article independently

11. Summary Writing/Performance Task
You are a public health official. Much of the US now has a more tropical climate including much warmer winters.
You must write a public service announcement (PSA) about dangers and prevention of one of the following tropical insect borne diseases:
Malaria, Yellow Fever, Dengue Fever, West
Nile Virus, Sleeping Sickness, Plague
Neatly write or type a 3 paragraph essay with correct spelling, punctuation and sentence structure; including a description of disease and its vector (insect), how to avoid infection, symptoms of disease, where to seek medical evaluation and care.