• This short video shows how annual global temperatures have increased between 1900 and 2021. 
• Using Ed Hawkins's climate stripes data, the video shows lower-than-average annual temperatures in shades of blue and higher-than-average annual temperatures in shades of red. 

Positives

• This video will work well in multilingual or bilingual classes because it contains no words or text.
• Students will see that the frequency of warmer-than-average years has escalated in recent decades.

Additional Prerequisites

• Teachers may want to read about Ed Hawkins's climate stripes before using this video.
  

Differentiation

• Art classes could use this video in a discussion about the color wheel. Using the concept of warm and cool colors, students could make artwork that shows how global temperatures are rising.
• Geography classes could discuss how climate change impacts people and places. Students could reflect on the following questions:
  • How might warmer temperatures change a region's economy?
  • How is culture connected to place? Could climate change disrupt or destroy cultures?
  • Will warmer temperatures affect some groups of people disproportionately? Why?
• Other resources on this topic include this lesson plan on the greenhouse effect and this interactive data resource on temperature anomalies.
  

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