The article links to downloadable local data and interactive maps; have students look up their own city or county to ground the trends in their experience.
Use the regional warming comparisons to support a data-analysis or graphing activity in which students interpret temperature trends.
Extensions:
Connect the discussion of unequal heat exposure and redlining to environmental justice using this video.
Have students use the interactive maps to compare the impacts of hotter summer temperatures across counties within their state.
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Mathematics:
Use this article as a jumping-off point to discuss measures of central tendency and how focusing only on a seemingly small average increase in temperature may be dampening the dangerous extremes.
Have students graph average temperature data over time in a scatterplot and analyze trends.
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