Canadian Climate Opinion Maps 2018

Positives

• The opinion map tool is easy to use.
• The generated data can be printed and used for other purposes.

Additional Prerequisites

• Students should be familiar with the concept of public opinion and understand how public opinion affects trends.
• Teachers should review the material before deciding on how to implement it with students.

Differentiation

• In groups, students could generate opinion fact maps about different regions of Canada and compare their results.
• After reviewing the data, students could reflect on the following questions:
  • Why do you think some regions' climate opinions differ from other regions' climate opinions?
  • What are some factors that could influence a region's opinions?
  • How could the information in this map be useful for a politician, an educator, a climate activist, or a scientist?

• Statistics or political science classes could read about how the data for the map was generated by clicking the link below the map in the About the Data section.