Positives

• This resource is incredibly thorough and contains a plethora of interesting and useful data for students to explore.
• The option to toggle between a map or graph will be especially helpful for students who may struggle with math and prefer to learn visually.

Additional Prerequisites

• Students should read the descriptions of mean seasonal precipitation, mean daily maximum temperatures, mean daily minimum temperatures, mean cooling degree days, mean growing degree days, and mean heating degree days prior to viewing the data.
• Students should be comfortable with charts and graphs. 
  

Differentiation

• Cross-curricular connections can be made in health classes that are discussing the effects of extreme heat on people and health, especially in urban areas.
• Math classes can use the line graphs with the maximum and minima=um values to support lessons about confidence intervals, averages, and standard deviations. 
• This resource would work well as a station-rotation, where students explore data from each category at a different computer station, answering a set of questions about each data set.
• To make this resource a bit more fun, try setting up a scavenger hunt within the data. The first student or group to correctly find the answers to your questions wins.