Connecting Data to Storytelling

• In this activity, students will listen to a 90-second radio story and then use the Yale Climate Opinion Maps to find out more about the climate opinions of the community featured in the story. 
• Using the Claim, Evidence, Reasoning framework, students will make a claim based on evidence from the story and the data, and their own reasoning. 

Positives

• The Student Page is an easy-to-follow fillable pdf that guides students through the activity.
• There are many radio stories to choose from.

Additional Prerequisites

• Teachers should be familiar with the Claim, Evidence, Reasoning framework; more information about the framework can be found here.
  

Differentiation

• This activity would work well in statistics classes because it makes data more relevant and accessible to others.
• Teachers could use this lesson multiple times with different radio episodes.
• After completing the activity, students could exchange their responses with another student and then evaluate one another's claims, evidence, and reasoning.
• Other resources on this topic include this mind map featuring solutions for global warming and this activity on navigating Yale Climate Maps.