Guide: Teach About Climate Change With 30 NYT Graphs
2024
This teaching resource from The New York Times includes a collection of 30 graphs published in the Times that relate to climate change. The collection includes graphs that focus on various topics, including greenhouse gas emissions, changing ocean temperatures, rising air temperatures, intensifying storms and changing precipitation, and climate solutions. This collection of climate change-related graphs aims to build students’ confidence with graphical literacy and critical thinking skills and increase their understanding of global climate trends.
The guide also offers teaching strategies and activities for educators to support students in exploring and analyzing findings, and acquiring conceptual understanding. The guide includes the following open-ended questions and prompts for students:
- What do you notice?
- What do you wonder?
- How does this relate to you and your community?
- Create a catchy headline that captures the graph’s main idea.
This guide is part of the “What’s Going on in This Graph?” series, which posts graphs previously published in the Times and guides students and educators through analyzing them, discussing main findings, and understanding related statistical concepts and vocabulary.
Guide: Teach About Climate Change With 30 NYT Graphs
Source:
Gonchar M. Teach About Climate Change With 30 Graphs From The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/31/learning/lesson-plans/teach-about-climate-change-with-30-graphs-from-the-new-york-times.html.