{"id":3906,"date":"2025-09-23T21:19:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T21:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/?page_id=3906"},"modified":"2025-09-29T20:40:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T20:40:30","slug":"heat-wave-a-math-lesson-plan-exploring-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/heat-wave-a-math-lesson-plan-exploring-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat Wave: A math lesson plan exploring climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Heat Wave lesson (Original)<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">This sample contextualized lesson focuses on using box-and-whisker charts to compare sets of data in the context of exploring climate change. The lesson includes a lesson plan and teacher materials as well as student materials\/handouts. A companion ZIP file containing PowerPoint slides for the lesson is also provided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li style=\"font-size:18px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2025\/09\/heatwave_box_whisker_lesson_v3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Download the Heat Wave lesson<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:18px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2025\/09\/1993-box-plot.pptx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Download four PowerPoint slides used in lesson<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Heat Wave lesson (Level A adaptation)<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">This sample contextualized lesson&nbsp;is a Level A adaptation of the original&nbsp;<em>Heat Wave<\/em>&nbsp;lesson. The context for this lesson is climate and climate change, and it focuses on comparing sets of data, specifically the number of heat wave days in Massachusetts in the years between 1981 and 2010 (as recorded by the Center for Disease Control).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong>Lesson objectives:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li style=\"font-size:18px\">find the median and range of a data set, and identify these as measures of center and spread<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:18px\">informally describe the shape of a data set using a dot plot<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:18px\">informally make comparisons between data sets based on median, range, and shape<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:18px\">experience using long term weather data to look for climate trends<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">The lesson includes a lesson plan and teacher materials as well as student materials\/handouts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list has-medium-font-size\">\n<li style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2025\/09\/HeatWave_LevelA_FullPacketv3.pdf\">Download the Heat Wave lesson (Level A adaptation)<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:28px\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heat Wave lesson (Original)<\/p>\n<p>This sample contextualized lesson focuses on using box-and-whisker charts to compare sets of data in the context of exploring climate change. The lesson includes a lesson plan and teacher materials as well as student materials\/handouts. A companion ZIP file containing PowerPoint slides for the lesson is also provided.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2025\/09\/heatwave_box_whisker_lesson_v3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download the Heat Wave lesson<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2025\/09\/1993-box-plot.pptx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download four PowerPoint slides used in lesson<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Heat Wave lesson (Level A adaptation)<\/p>\n<p>This sample contextualized lesson&nbsp;is a Level A adaptation of the original&nbsp;  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/heat-wave-a-math-lesson-plan-exploring-climate-change\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"720,1582,1656,2359,2371,2934","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3906","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3906"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4273,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3906\/revisions\/4273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}