Average Winter Temperature
Provided by: Climate Central|Published on: June 26, 2026|Last updated: September 26, 2026
Grades: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Type: Data, Graphs, and Maps
Subjects: Earth and Space Sciences
Authors: Climate Central
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Synopsis
- This interactive resource displays a graph of the average winter temperature over time, offering a number of cities to choose from in each state in America.
- Students can create graphs in English or Spanish and the data on the graphs goes back to 1970.
Teaching Materials
Positives
- This resource is easy to navigate and can be utilized across a wide range of grade and ability levels.
- Students will enjoy looking at locations where they live or have visited, and will learn about how the climate is changing around them.
Prerequisites
- Students should be able to read graphs.
- Students would benefit from understanding how to calculate the average temperatures shown in the graph.
Differentiation & Implementation
- Cross-curricular connections can be made in math classes focusing on graphs and data, in social studies classes considering how different places are experiencing climate change, and in health classes that are learning about how our changing climate is impacting populations.
- Younger students would benefit from working through the data presented in a graph together as a class, while older students could likely draw conclusions independently.
- Try using this resource to predict what the average winter temperature will be near your school in five, ten, and twenty years.
This resource shows temperature shifts of various U.S. cities using average daily temperatures in the winter season. As projected, shorter winter periods could have adverse impacts on human health and agricultural production. There are no misconceptions in the datasets and this resource is recommended for teaching.
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