Read like a geographer: Hottest summer on record
A reading text on the 2022 heatwave with activities to help students improve their disciplinary literacy and think like geographers. The resource also includes practice with numerical skills and graphical skills.
It features the following tasks:
- Students match headings to paragraphs.
- They plot figures from the article on graphs of temperature and precipitation.
- They then answer comprehension questions involving inference.
The worksheet includes differentiated tasks to demonstrate to students how to make the inferences required in reading/thinking like a geographer:
- Students match facts to their likely consequences.
- They sort impacts into economic, environmental or social.
An extract from the worksheet:
Match each fact to the correct consequence or example.
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1. Schools closed, |
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a. so the rail companies lost money. |
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2. Businesses closed, |
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b. so farmers lost money. |
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3. There was an increase in hospital patients due to heat-related issues |
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c. so students missed out on learning. |
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4. Railway cables sagged, train lines buckled, and road surfaces melted. |
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d. so they couldn’t get to work. |
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5. Crops failed or produced a far smaller yield than usual, |
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e. so those businesses lost money. |
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6. Rail services were disrupted, |
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f. They needed to be repaired or replaced, costing money. |
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7. Rail passengers were left stranded, |
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g. such as heatstroke, heat exhaustion and dehydration. |
