Blog on Climate

Your challenge today is to write a blog post about Climate Change. The requirement is simple:  250 - 500 words, on any aspect of climate change that interests you.  I will choose up to three blog posts to publish here on this blog.

First, take the Carbon Footprint Calculator Quiz.  Open the link in a new tab so you can come back here easily.

Next, decide what you want to write about.  Ideas ...

What does Carbon Footprint mean?
What is 350.org?
What are greenhouse gases?
How to decrease your carbon footprint.
Wangari Maathai, and what her work has to do with climate.
Rainforest degradation and climate.
Desertification and climate.
Polar bears and climate change.
What does eating meat have to do with your carbon footprint?
Is "organic" better for the environment?
Climate change is everyone's problem.
Arguments against climate change.
What is the number one thing you can do to reduce your carbon footprint?
Which countries have the largest and smallest carbon footprints?
What are carbon offsets?
What is cap-and-trade?
Is climate change good?
 
Then start collecting some research.  In a good blog post, you will include quotes and links to other sources by highlighting the text you wish to link, and then inserting a hyperlink to the URL, so that your reader can click for further information.  Look above - see how you can click the words, "Carbon Footprint Calculator Quiz"?  You will need to include at least three hyperlinks in your blog post. You must also include at least one photo or video.  When including photos or videos, you must include a caption below, with the URL for the page the photo or video was taken from.

Write your blog post in Microsoft Word.

When you have finished, SAVE AS [your name]climateblog in your home file. 

SAVE AS, again, [your name]climateblog in the J drive, inside the 7th grade science folder, where you will find a folder called Nortons Inbox.  This is how your work will be graded.

If you must do your blog post at home, you can email it to me as an attachment.