How to read a heat map!!!
- Discuss climate change and rising temperatures with students.
- Ask students to identify the causes of increased global temperature.
- Ask them if they have ever seen a heat map of our planet.
- The following activity will teach them how to read such a map.
- Play them the downloaded video of the global heat map how the temperature is changing over the decades below.
- Familiarize them of the meaning of the legend of the map
- Explain to them the meaning of the map and what is showing
- Let them write down what they see and they should try to explain it with their own words
- Later compare them with the other groups, and write down the similarities on the board, and discuss about what they saw.
TEMP Activity