Sponge # 6 - Trimester 2

Explore this website.
Please answer the following questions in your sponge book.

What are some questions that you have?
What do you think were some of the most important issues that this website explores?
What would you like to investigate further?
Would you be interested in supporting an organization such as this?

Why do we only respond instead of prevent?

Please read this article on the conditions in Haiti before their recent tragic earthquake. Why do most of us not pay attention to these problems until a natural disaster brings them to our attention? What can we do as a world citizen to help poorer nations transform?

Does this cold snap mean that Global Warming is over?

Please read this article and reflect on what is happening this winter around the globe. Has this winter changed your opinion about Global Warming?

U.N. Climate Conference

You may want to follow this conference to see if the world is able to come together to prevent climate change. Here is a link to an article to get you started. This would also make an excellent topic for your Current Events blogs.

Lake Atitlan- What is happening? Why?

To find out more about the situation at Lake Atitlan please read this article. This would be an excellent article to comment upon in your blogs.

Check your blogs!

If you see a comment from me than the link I have for your blog is working. If you do not have comment from me could you please check your link and tell me how to fix it. Overall you are doing an excellent job so far!!

Help Stop Hunger!

Please watch this video and pass it along to help the 1 billion people who will go hungry this year. If you want to make a donation go here.