For example, in affluent Pennington, third graders in wellness (PE) class tossed balls of yarn representing carbon-dioxide molecules to classmates representing forests to show that “after the advent of cars, factories and electricity, and ,massive deforestation,” it’s become harder to get carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
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“What is it causing?” asks teacher Suzanne Horsley, who has a master’s in outdoor education.
“Global warming,” answers a student.
(,Native Americans cleared the forests, often using fire, to create crop lands centuries before Europeans landed. Deforestation peaked in the 1870’s.)
[Gee, I wonder why test scores in reading and math keep going down? — Ed]
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