Summary for Education ( Yesenia Garcia)

I have to say that I am very pleased with the results I was able to obtain in my global warming education project. Students didn’t only seem interested but I felt like I was really able to make a connection with the senior and juniors at Gulf Coast High School.After I played the video I was able to see that not only had I been able to make an impact in these student’s lives but I had grown a special interest in them. Some students would continue to look at each other and say small comments like “unbelievable,” what I even found most interesting was their viewpoints. I guess I also have to give credit to the new Hollywood film called “2012.” According to my research the film references Mayanism, the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, and the 2012 phenomenon in its portrayal of cataclysmic events unfolding in the year 2012. Due to solar flare bombardment the Earth's core begins heating up at an unprecedented rate, eventually causing crustal displacement. This results in an onslaught of Doomsday event scenarios plunging the world into chaos, ranging from California falling into the Pacific Ocean, the eruption of the Yellowstone National Park caldera, massive earthquakes, and Megatsunami impacts along every coast line on the Earth. The film centers around an ensemble cast of characters as they narrowly escape multiple catastrophes in an effort to reach ships in the Himalayas, along with scientists and governments of the world who are attempting to save as many lives as they can before the disasters ensue. While conducting my presentation, students would continuously go back to the film and tell me parts that resembled what I was trying to explain to them about greenhouse gasses. I felt like the timing for my presentation was perfect and that this film, even though in some areas a bit fictitious, really helped students understand the overall consequences and catastrophes that can relate to the entire global warming phenomenon.