• This interactive map shows Candians' beliefs, risk perceptions, and policy preferences about climate change. The map can be viewed in English or French.
• The map contains public opinion data for several climate statements, such as climate change will harm you personally, or Earth is getting warmer.
• Students can view data for each climate statement at the national, province, or riding level.

Positives

• The opinion map tool is easy to use.
• The generated data can be printed and used for other purposes.

Additional Prerequisites

• Students should be familiar with the concept of public opinion and understand how public opinion affects trends.
• Teachers should review the material before deciding on how to implement it with students.

Differentiation

• In groups, students could generate opinion fact maps about different regions of Canada and compare their results.
• After reviewing the data, students could reflect on the following questions:
  • Why do you think some regions' climate opinions differ from other regions' climate opinions?
  • What are some factors that could influence a region's opinions?
  • How could the information in this map be useful for a politician, an educator, a climate activist, or a scientist?

• Statistics or political science classes could read about how the data for the map was generated by clicking the link below the map in the About the Data section.

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