September 27-October 4th
Understanding of weather and climate-related seasons is improving from last year. We connected climate change/global warming to NASA's "The Earth has a Fever." See process and notes of children's reactions at Climate Action Challenge 2021.
Thomas's big conclusion this year is that gasoline from cars is a big cause of climate change. Carbon monoxide released into the atmosphere is warming the earth's surface which in turn is warming the oceans and killing sustaining life. He sees electric cars like the one his dad bought as part of the solution to help lower the earth's temperature.
After watching Zaki's Adventures, The Earth Has a Fever and reading the first pages of The Global Game Changers by Jen and Rachel Helson, my grandson stated that "people not caring, like the "dark cloud" the Global Game Changers were fighting is also an explanation for the earth having a fever. He is trying to help the earth by recycling, composting, and repurposing paper, containers and cardboxes to create and play. He needs to work on conservation of tape and other materials.
