Extremely Hot Days
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Provided by: Climate Central|Published on: July 26, 2022
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Synopsis
- This interactive resource allows students to explore the change in extremely hot days that cities in the United States have experienced annually from 1970.
- Students will learn that, on average, cities in the United States are experiencing many more hot days per year than they were in the past.
Subjects: Earth and Space Sciences
Authors: Climate Central
Region: North America, United States
Languages: English, Spanish
Teaching Materials
Positives
- This resource is easy to understand, and it makes a striking point about rising temperatures.
- Students will enjoy looking at data from nearby cities or cities they would like to go to in the future.
- The resource is available in English and Spanish. Students can click "EN" for English or "ES" for Spanish.
Prerequisites
- Students can click on the article More Extremely Hot Days, located in the lower right-hand corner of the screen, to read more about the scientists' findings.
- Students should be comfortable reading a line graph.
Differentiation & Implementation
- Math or statistics classes could use this resource to discuss how scientists used average temperature data to determine what a really hot day means in different cities.
- Health classes could use this resource in a discussion about the importance of staying healthy during extremely hot days.
- Students could make predictions before exploring the resource and compare their predictions to the data.
- As an extension, students could write a constructed response explaining their predictions, the data, and how and why they differed.
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