School kids have the power to change conservative minds about climate change, study shows

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Researchers found that teaching children about climate change in school significantly increased their parents’ concern over the issue. Notably, the effect was strongest among conservative parents.

Former Congressman Bob Inglis changed his views on climate change after discussing the issue with his son.

Experts said the program’s success had a lot to do with how teachers tackled climate change in the classroom. The students’ projects mostly focused on North Carolina’s coast. Some students helped monitor sea turtle nests, since the gender of hatching eggs depends on temperature, while others helped buildThose activities may have translated into more parental engagement, Lawson said. “If you can get kids so excited and talking with their parents about what they are learning in schools, parents will want to learn.

“I’m not standing at the front of the room saying, ‘Climate change is real,’ ” she said. “You are going to examine the evidence and see for yourself.”, a biology teacher in Indianapolis, Ind., has his students investigate how climate change is bringing more invasive species to the area. “I think that’s really eye-opening for them,” he said. “It’s not just about weather patterns changing.”

 

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why not teach marketable skills, eternal life is available thru Jesus ; school will definetly not teach this

Pretty sad world we live in when children are pawns for power hungry adults.

What a fraud

Aborted babies could probably tell would-be parents a thing or two also, but their voices were silenced.

yes, Stalin and Hitler both found that propaganda could fool the people by indoctrinating children.

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