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Provided by: Climate Central |Published on: November 26, 2025
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Synopsis
In this article from Climate Central, students will learn how climate change affects national parks through colorful graphics, data about each National Park, and a discussion about how things might change in the future.
Students will learn about the impacts like extreme heat, flooding, and wildfire smoke that impact the parks and people's ability to visit them.
This perspective may help students see how important climate action is for protecting the places they love.
The graphics provide an excellent way for students to see the key points in the article at a glance.
Prerequisites
When clicking on the Climate Change Impacts National Parks graphic, it may go to the More Extreme Heat in National Parks graphic. Users will have to toggle the dropdown menu to select the resource they want.
Students should be familiar with climate change and climate projections. It may also be helpful for students to know terms such as wet bulb temperature, ocean acidification, phenology, and others.
Differentiation & Implementation
Students can research and write about their favorite national park and how an increase in hot days and other climate impacts will impact their park and the plants and animals that live there.
Students can write a poem about the importance of national parks and the importance of mitigating climate change.
Students can create a guide to their favorite national parks and how to visit them safely, citing information from the graphics and text in the resource. This video may also provide helpful safety guidelines.
This video can help students understand how the climate impacts discussed in this resource affect public health.
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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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