I have been selected to get An Inconvenient Truth DVD for my classroom

[greenbriar]

Dear Teacher,

Congratulations! You have been selected to receive a DVD of “An Inconvenient Truth.” You should be receiving your copy by the middle of March.

The DVD of "An Inconvenient Truth" has been provided to you as a teaching tool from StopGlobalWarming.org and Participant Productions. We encourage you to visit www.participate.net and download the free supplemental materials that accompany the film to use in your classroom. We hope that this gift will inspire your students and fellow educators to take action now to make a difference for the future of our planet. Please keep us updated on your experiences using “An Inconvenient Truth” as a teaching tool by becoming part of our online community along with other teachers around the globe.

We believe in using the power of media to create social change. Films can raise awareness about important social issues, educating audiences and inspiring them to take action. But the movie is just the beginning. We hope that you will get involved in the issues that matter to you. Make a difference in your world.

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Best Regards,

[walldude]

1. Cool.. but be careful, you know there's going to be at least one

parent who thinks the sun revolves around the earth, and boy are they going to be pissed.

[greenbriar]

2. probably will use it during summer school and not in my actual classroom

don't know yet. Have to preview it and the materials that come with it.

I don't want to cause issues in my building

[patrice]

3. In re the Science of Global Climate Change, you're going to hear

various criticism that ammount to: "Your knowledge is relative to its context (i.e. its scientific assumptions and methods). My opposing knowledge is relative to its context (i.e. its scientific assumptions and methods). Since both sets of fact are relative, they are equal, and hence "the jury is still out" on Global Climate Change."

Yes, All knowledge IS, in fact, relative; that does not make it equally valid. Equality is not the necessary consequence of relativity. Peer review enhances the validity of research, by placing the relative context of any given bit of information within the larger frame of reference of the scientific community AND it challenges it within that larger frame.

The discussion of competing knowledge should compare, point by point, the characteristics of the peer reviews of each.

You are doing important work greenbriar, good luck and thank you!

Hare Krsna! Hare Rama!