Warmer Growing Season, Longer Allergy Season
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Provided by: Climate Central|Published on: May 30, 2026
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Synopsis
- This resource uses maps, graphs, a video, and text to explain the connection between climate change, growing seasons, and allergies.
- Students will learn that changing lengths of freeze-free seasons across the United States result in longer, more severe allergy seasons.
Subjects: Earth and Space Sciences, Health
Authors: Climate Central
Region: United States
Languages: English, Spanish
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Positives
- The video and Key Facts section do a great job of summing up the data for those who struggle with analyzing maps and graphs.
Prerequisites
- This resource builds on students' understanding of the causes and impacts of climate change.
Differentiation & Implementation
- To activate students' prior knowledge, teachers can ask students about their experience with seasonal allergies, or the teacher can tell a personal anecdote about their experience with allergies.
- Teachers can print or display the maps and graphs in stations around the room, having students go from station to station to record what they notice and what they wonder about each of the visualizations. Then, after discussing, teachers can play the video to tie the graphs together.
- Students can also check out this resource from Climate Central to understand other impacts of seasonal changes.
- This resource can be used to demonstrate the connection between Sustainable Development Goal 3, Good Health and Well-Being, and Sustainable Development Goal 13, Climate Action.
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Climate Central
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