To introduce climate change curriculum in schools New Jersey was first state
To learn about climate change while in the classroom starting this school year in the country New Jersey public school students will be the first required. On Thursday, according to a report “Climate change is becoming a real reality,” New Jersey first lady Tammy Murphy, who spearheaded the initiative. By the state’s board of education in 2020 the new standards were adopted, but because of the pandemic, the roll out was halted, giving educators and in grades K-12 districts more time for all students to prepare the lesson plans. “This new education standard the districts themselves are able to design whatever it is that the way they want to implement and interpret”, Murphy said. In recent decades lessons will focus on how climate change has accelerated and how it’s impacted public health, human society, and contributed to natural disasters. On August 22 in this file photo taken, 2022 a handout photo provided by the Dallas Police Department shows vehicles sitting in flood waters al...