This article explains how extreme heat is affecting people around the world, especially those who live in lower-income countries.
The article includes links to various reports and articles, photographs from different parts of the world, and a chart.
Teaching Tips
Positives
The photographs will keep students engaged.
It will help students have a global view of the climate crisis.
Additional Prerequisites
It assumes that the students already have a basic understanding of the climate crisis and its causes.
Differentiation
It can be used for group presentations, where each group presents how the climate crisis affects a sector of society or a particular country, all based on the article.
For a broader appreciation and to foster critical thinking, consider introducing students to the concepts of adaptation and mitigation with this resource.
Based on the last paragraph, ask students to suggest some additional steps that their current government can take to adapt to extreme temperatures.
Scientist Notes
This resource is an article that covers a broad range of climate-relevant topics including the impact of rising temperatures on human health, infrastructure challenges, the potential for food insecurity, and adaptation strategies. It is a well-cited and clear resource and is recommended for teaching.
Standards
Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
ESS2: Earth's Systems
HS-ESS2-2 Analyze geoscience data to make the claim that one change to Earth’s surface can create feedbacks that cause changes to other Earth systems.
HS-ESS2-4 Use a model to describe how variations in the flow of energy into and out of Earth’s systems result in changes in climate.
ESS3: Earth and Human Activity
MS-ESS3-5 Ask questions to clarify evidence of the factors that have caused the rise in global temperatures over the past century.
HS-ESS3-5 Analyze geoscience data and the results from global climate models to make an evidence-based forecast of the current rate of global or regional climate change and associated future impacts to Earth systems.
ETS1: Engineering Design
HS-ETS1-1 Analyze a major global challenge to specify qualitative and quantitative criteria and constraints for solutions that account for societal needs and wants.
College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Standards
Dimension 2: Civics
D2.Civ.5.9-12 Evaluate citizens' and institutions' effectiveness in addressing social and political problems at the local, state, tribal, national, and/or international level.
