This interactive dashboard displays data on the support for or opposition to the Paris Agreement, climate assemblies, and five potential climate policies.
The data is separated into the four countries that were surveyed: Brazil, China, Sweden, and the UK.
Teaching Tips
Positives
The data can be filtered by the respondents' gender, age, financial stability, environmental friendliness, and belief in collective efficacy.
The dashboard is well organized and easy to navigate.
Additional Prerequisites
Students should know how to read bar graphs.
Teachers may need to explain the filter terms financial stability, environmental identity, and collective efficacy. Definitions for these terms are provided underneath the graphic.
Differentiation
Math classes can use this resource to practice interpreting graphs and summarizing data.
In civics courses, students can further research the Paris Agreement, the concept of climate assemblies, and the various policies mentioned.
In science courses, students could assess how effective these policies could be at mitigating climate change.
Other resources about climate policy include this lesson plan on creating climate policies, this ClimateScience course on climate politics, and this video on carbon taxes.
Scientist Notes
The resource includes a study on how people perceive climate change in different nations, as well as the elements that influence how climate actions and policies are implemented to keep CO2 levels under control. This is an excellent teaching resource.
Standards
College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Standards
Dimension 2: Civics
D2.Civ.10.6-8 Explain the relevance of personal interests and perspectives, civic virtues, and democratic principles when people address issues and problems in government and civil society.
D2.Civ.12.6-8 Assess specific rules and laws (both actual and proposed) as means of addressing public problems.
D2.Civ.10.9-12 Analyze the impact and the appropriate roles of personal interests and perspectives on the application of civic virtues, democratic principles, constitutional rights, and human rights.
Dimension 4: Taking Informed Action
D4.7.6-8 Assess their individual and collective capacities to take action to address local, regional, and global problems, taking into account a range of possible levers of power, strategies, and potential outcomes.
D4.7.9-12 Assess options for individual and collective action to address local, regional, and global problems by engaging in self-reflection, strategy identification, and complex causal reasoning.
Common Core Math Standards (CCSS.MATH)
Statistics & Probability (6-8)
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.SP.B.5 Summarize numerical data sets in relation to their context.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.7.SP.A.1 Understand that statistics can be used to gain information about a population by examining a sample of the population; generalizations about a population from a sample are valid only if the sample is representative of that population. Understand that random sampling tends to produce representative samples and support valid inferences.
Statistics & Probability: Making Inferences & Justifying Conclusions (9-12)
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSS.IC.B.6 Evaluate reports based on data.
