The Tree Cover and Temperature Disparity in US Urbanized Areas: Quantifying the Association with Income Across 5,723 Communities

• This scientific paper presents original research on the connections between tree cover and other variables in various urban locations around the United States.
• Students will learn about the significant correlations that exist between tree cover and summer temperatures, population density, income level, and race/ethnicity.

Positives

• Students will learn about the tree disparity that exists between wealthy white communities and lower-income non-white communities.
• The paper includes maps, graphs, and data tables. 

Additional Prerequisites

• It would be beneficial for students to understand the process of writing a scientific paper and applying the scientific method.
• Background experience reading scientific papers would be helpful.

Differentiation

• Cross-curricular connections could be made with social studies, biology, history, geography, math, and economics.
• Statistics classes could read the statistical analysis section of the paper to see how statistics can be used in scientific papers.