Climate change is an extremely important biological topic that must be included in educational curriculums, however it is slow to be included in public schools. It has been debated to push biology courses back a year in high school education, in a specific case study in Concord, Massachusetts, in order to incoorperate a more earth-based class into freshman curriculums. This method of climate change education, I find, is unbenefitial and disabling students from taking more advanced courses in later years of high school careers because they do not have the option early on to skip low level courses. Also, it is completely true the climate change can be incoorperated into ecology units in biology as the earth's ecosystem and weather patterns and climates are vital to the ecological compositions across the world. This would allow a comprehesive lesson on climate change and the effects on organisms and species richness in case studies. Also, this would give the opportunity to take the upper level biology course and learn the same important information about climate change as would be included in an earth science course.
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