Educator Guide
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Overview
Climate reanalyzer is a platform for visualizing a wide array of weather and climate datasets and models. It is an interactive visualization including tools with which to manipulate and display them.
Key Features
Easily accessible data
Real-world data
Timeseries
Daily updated global weather overview
Option to export data
Benefits
Encourages exploration
Incorporate visual learning, spatial thinking and quantitative skills
Visualize complex ideas to better understand them
Understand the scale of context
How these features can be used in the classroom to enhance teaching and learning
Teach learners how to interpret graphs and maps and what information can be found in them by guiding them with questions. Use this to start a debate. For example, start with trying to answer questions such as: How does the current weather compare to the long-term average? What are the consequences of this?
Getting Started
Go to the website https://climatereanalyzer.org/
Choose a map from the 3 headings
Explore the different maps and its factors
Considerations and potential concern of using the tool
Get familiar and experiment with the tool and content before integrating it in your own class. Students need prior experience in manipulating and interpreting the datasets, or guidance to do so, as none is provided on the website.