BOSTON -- Teaching kids about the latest environmental issues and climate change is a tough job.

NewsCenter 5's David Brown reported that a Wellesley teacher is getting the job done by combining top scientists and technology.

It isn't your ordinary science class, and Rita Chang isn't your ordinary science teacher. The Wellesley High School earth science teacher is tackling the complicated issue of global warming using the nation's top scientists.

"I think that science is really, really exciting, and I think that field work that's being done is really exciting. I felt that as if that should be brought to high school that students should really have access to the absolute best science that is out there," Chang said.

Access to the best science requires the best scientists. As an educator and an innovator, Chang has brought the nation's leading experts on climate change into her classroom using cutting edge technology. She's compiled a DVD of scientists that she shares with her classroom and ones across the country -- like Harvard's Dr. Daniel Schrag. As a paleoclimatologist, he shares his discoveries of ice fields now with the ice ages thousands of years ago.

"The idea that scientists like me are suppose to predict exactly what's going to happen when no human being has ever seen this ever before," Schrag said.

"I really feel like it's inspirational to just have the scientists there. Someone who is so passionate about the subject," student Nahuel Fefer said.

The classroom is not only about teaching the science behind climate change but also about teaching some of the solutions -- such as biofuels, solar energy and energy from the wind.

"All I really want to do is open the mind and imaginations of these young people so that they're inspired and motivated to, one, learn because I think learning itself is a joy and, secondly, act," Chang said.