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Provided by: Yale News |Published on: April 23, 2024
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Synopsis
This video and article detail a collaboration between community members in New Haven using urban art and heat-absorbing paint to inspire and inform people.
Students will learn about contributions to the urban heat island effect and hear from the Yale leaders who spearheaded this project.
This video features two women of color with prominent positions at Yale University.
This resource displays why an interdisciplinary approach helps tackle climate change.
Additional Prerequisites
Students should understand the urban heat island effect, its causes, and how it impacts people in cities.
Some students may need the terms urban art, mitigate, and others defined before watching the video and reading the article.
Differentiation
Students can look at other measures to reduce the heat island effects, such as the one described in the Do Cities Need More Green Roofs? resource.
This resource can supplement a lesson on the connection between buildings and greenhouse gas emissions.
After viewing the mural, students can sketch their ideas for murals regarding climate change.
This resource can support a classroom discussion on the merits of interdisciplinary collaboration and what other problems could be solved with this approach.
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