Prepare flyers for students to take home and encourage parents to attend the student presentations. As an alternative, if server space is available, consider publishing the students' global warming reports on the World Wide Web. See our Professional Growth modules in the Internet Resources below to learn more about Web publishing. Students present their finished global warming reports to the whole class and the entire school. This activity can be a small class presentation, where students present their report and related materials to the other members of the class, or it can be a large community and school event in which everyone is encouraged to participate.
Students can present in teams, with each student presenting a portion of the finished report.
Allow time for others to ask questions and make suggestions. If an Earth Day has been planned, include the student reports as centerpieces for the activities. Concentrate on what the students learned about global warming, the Greenhouse Effect, and climate modeling, as well as the criteria they developed for analyzing scientific claims. Use the Internet Resources below to find more information on Earth Day activities. Collect all of the student reports and publish them as a book or on the Web to broaden their use outside the school.