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Description
Urban Heat Islands is a hands-on activity that helps students to develop and demonstrate an understanding of the causes of urban warming and practical solutions to help ease its effects.
The students will begin by participating in a discussion about the difference in temperatures in cities and rural settings.
They will then observe a poster and identify the items that are causing heat and those that are helping to cool the environment. They will then participate in a discussion based around the choices that one can make to help to ease the heating of an area.
The students will then receive a poster on which they will add elements to help lower the temperature of their city. They can then present their poster or put it on display.
The students participate in a closing discussion to help synthesize their understanding.
General Assessment
Recommendation of how and where to use it
Urban Heat Islands is a hands-on activity best suited for the early elementary Science classroom. It helps students to create an understanding of outcomes related to habitats and communities, thermal energy and climate change. The activity would be best used after the students are already familiar with the topics and used to demonstrate an understanding of how green spaces can help to reduce temperatures in cities.
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- Alberta
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- Grade 3
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- Living Systems: Understandings of the living world, Earth, and space are deepened through investigating natural systems and their interactions
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- Earth Systems: Understandings of the living world, Earth, and space are deepened through investigating natural systems and their interactions.
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- Explore Your World: Diversity and Social Responsibility
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- Our Local Environment : Learning and Living Sustainably
- Our Local Environment : Scientific Literacy
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- Earth and Space Systems: Air and Water in the Environment
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- Science 3: Thermal energy can be produced and transferred.
- Science 3:Plants and Animals are diverse, can be grouped, and interact in their ecosystems
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- Science 2: Water is essential to all living things and it cycles through the environment
- Grade 3
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- Science 3: Thermal energy can be produced and transferred.
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- Science 4: All living things sense and respond to their environment
Themes Addressed
Air, Atmosphere & Climate (2)
- Climate Change
- Weather
Human Health & Environment (1)
- Quality of Life
Land Use & Natural Resources (1)
- Sustainable Urbanization