Peace In the Midle East?

Do you tink the President's decision to move the US Embassy in Isreal to Jerusalem will help the peace process or hinder it?  Why?

What would you do if you were to bring peace to the region?

Prom and Global Warming

Imagine not being able to have your Prom.

The Prom is seen as a rite of passage in the United States. The culmination of your High School years and celebration of your step into adulthood. The history of Prom in the United States goes back over 60 years. The word Prom is short for promenade, the formal, introductory parading of guests at a party. The Prom can be traced back to the simple co-ed banquets that 19th century American universities held for each year's graduating class.

What does Global warming have to do with their Prom?

Why does French President Emmanuel Macron want President Trump to 'come back and join' the Paris Climate Agreement?

Are we to blame for Joplin's tragedy? Vice President Al Gore thinks so.

10 years later is the truth still inconvenient?

What do the climate deniers say?

 
How do their statements prove the adage 'Statistics never lie but liers always use statistics?'

I'm not a Scientist but I am a Social Studies teacher.  How is this issue politicized?

What is your 'Global Footprint? What can be done about it?

Super Freakonomics

Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? Does turning on the lights kill coal miners?

Statistics never lie but liers always use statistics.

Freakonomics is a ground-breaking collaboration between Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, an award-winning author and journalist. They usually begin with a mountain of data and a simple, unasked question. Some of these questions concern life-and-death issues; others have an admittedly freakish quality. Thus the new field of study contained in this book: Freakonomics.

Read this excerpt and then answer the following questions:

1) What is an externality?
2) Who is Jack? What are the externalities in his life?
3) Are externalities easily quantifiable? Why or Why not?
4) List the top ten exteralities in your life and what you can do to control each one.