Provided by: Climate Central |Published on: July 23, 2022
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Synopsis
This interactive resource allows students to explore temperatures, climate shift index data, and temperature anomalies across the United States for yesterday, today, tomorrow, and the following day.
Students will be able to work with climate data for specific areas and learn about how climate change is impacting the world.
This interactive map is easy to use and incredibly enlightening.
Because it is so current and meaningful, students will be engaged with the map.
Prerequisites
Students should have a basic understanding of climate change.
There is a link below the map about how Realtime Fingerprints develops tools like climate shift index, which may help students gain a better understanding of the map.
Differentiation & Implementation
This resource would work equally well in a science or social studies class and would be especially meaningful as a cross-curricular tool between the two classes. Students can choose a region of the country to learn about and use this tool to understand the climate and how the climate is changing there.
This resource would be a great tool for students to revisit throughout the year and record data.
Climate Central is an independent group of scientists and communicators who research and report the facts about our changing climate and how it affects people’s lives.
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