Global Climate Shift Index
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Provided by: Climate Central|Published on: February 15, 2023
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Synopsis
- This interactive resource allows students to view a color-coded global map showing the likelihood that climate change had an impact on the daily average temperature on a specific date.
- Students will be able to see the regions where climate change is most likely affecting temperatures today.
Subjects: Earth and Space Sciences, Geography
Authors: Climate Central
Region: Global
Languages: English
Teaching Materials
Positives
- The map is easy to navigate and is simple to interpret.
- Students will enjoy looking at the data for dates or locations that are special to them.
Prerequisites
- Students should know what the Climate Shift Index measures and know how to read a map.
- The "Choose a Date" option allows you to select dates that do not have any data. It appears that their data only goes back about one year.
Differentiation & Implementation
- Cross-curricular connections can be made in health classes that are considering how human health is impacted by rising temperatures around the world.
- As a class, use today's data to have a discussion about the data provided and ask them what stands out about the data presented on the map. Are there certain areas that experience more effects but may not be contributing much pollution?
- Science and social studies classes can discuss the trends seen during summer months and discuss how higher temperatures in some areas may affect food production or urban communities.
- Have students look up a special date in the past year, like their birthday, and then have them share with a peer or the class what they learned from the data presented in the resource for that date.
- Have students in geography classes write a paper about three locations on a specific date, comparing and contrasting what it would be like in those places or what they might be doing on that day in those locations.
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Climate Central
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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