This video explains urban heat and its impact on various communities of color.
Students learn about urban heat islands, mean radiant temperature, and redlining and its effect on communities of color.
Teaching Tips
Positives
It contains graphics that aid understanding of the video.
It explains the effect of redlining on communities of color.
It describes how urban heat islands affects communities of color more than others.
Additional Prerequisites
Students should be familiar with environmental racism.
Differentiation
Teachers could use this video to introduce environmental racism to 6th-8th graders.
Teachers could use this video to explain the effects of redlining in a history class.
Teachers could use part 0:28-1:05 to describe mean radiant temperature.
Click here for a time-lapse video on Tokyo’s heat island effect.
Click here for a lesson plan on urban heat islands.
Click here for a video on the benefits of urban trees.
Click here for an StC lesson plan on redlining and environmental racism.
Scientist Notes
This resource provides in detail the concept of urban heat islands, redlining, and environmental racism in some parts of the USA. This is suitable to inspire students to advocate for systemic change and environmental justice activism. The resource is recommended.
Standards
English Language Arts
Speaking & Listening (K-12)
6.SL.3 Delineate a speaker's argument and specific claims, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.
Social Sciences
Geography (K-12)
HS.40 Use geographic data to analyze the interconnectedness of physical and human regional systems (such as a river valley and culture, water rights/use in regions, choice/impact of settlement locations) and their interconnectedness to global communities.
HS.45 Identify and explain how political and economic power dynamics throughout time have influenced cultural and environmental characteristics of various places and regions.
Social Science Analysis (K-12)
6.27 Assess individual and collective capacities to take action to address local and regional issues, taking into account a range of possible levers of power, strategies, and potential outcomes.
