Local Warming at All Levels
Provided by: Climate Central|Published on: July 27, 2022|Last updated: September 26, 2026
Grades: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Type: Data, Graphs, and Maps
Subjects: Earth and Space Sciences
Authors: Climate Central
Location: North America, North America > United States, North America > United States > New Jersey
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Synopsis
- This interactive resource allows students to see the temperature change for many American cities since 1970 and how they compare to that state and to the United States.
- Each city on the drop-down menu creates a downloadable graph image with the temperature change information.
Teaching Materials
Positives
- This resource delivers an easy-to-digest chart that makes the temperature changes across America engaging and understandable for students at many levels.
- The downloadable chart is available in English and Spanish, and in several image formats.
Prerequisites
- Students should be able to read a bar graph.
Differentiation & Implementation
- Cross-curricular connections can be made in math classes working with graphs or social studies classes working on geography and climate impacts.
- This resource would lend itself well to an activity where each student downloads a chart and reviews it, then students walk around with their charts and compare and contrast the data between their charts and their classmates'. Afterwards, have students reflect on what they gleaned from these comparisons.
- As an extension, have students use the charts to create a handout that explains the impacts of rising temperatures to distribute within the school community.
The resource underlines variability of temperature and compares the changes across US cities from 1970. The datasets and source are accurate and credible, thus, the resource is recommended for teaching.
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