• This interactive map shows partisan climate opinion data generated with statistical models based on survey results and mapped to different United States geographical areas.
  
• Students can see how opinions about climate change vary by geography and political affiliation.
  
• It includes a description of the data, methodology, and survey questions used.
  

Positives

• This resource shows the similarities and differences in beliefs about global warming.
• The single maps provide additional options to research.
  

Prerequisites 

• Students should understand the difference between states and congressional districts and have a basic understanding of global warming.
• If looking at the specific policies, the teacher should preview the terms pollutants, renewable energy, and utilities. 

Differentiation 

• Science and history classes can discuss the process of science and compare the denial of global warming and climate change to the denial of the Earth being round or other scientific discoveries or ideas that challenged the status quo.
• English language arts classes could write a position paper about why opinions about verifiable observations and data are not relevant (such as believing that gravity is just a theory).
  
• Students can be grouped and asked to discuss these questions and then share with the class:
  
  • What surprised you about this data?
  • What didn't surprise you?
  • Environmental protection was a bipartisan issue in the past.  Why do you think it has become partisan?

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