Grade Level: 3-5
Students track weather over time and create a bar chart to track their data.
Students track weather over time and create a bar chart to track their data.
In this activity, students will use sea-level rise data to create models and compare short-term trends to long-term trends. They will then determine whether sea-level rise is occurring based on the data.
The purpose of this lesson is for students to compare data displays to determine which best answers the driving question. To do this they will evaluate the spread of the data and what the displays show.
This activity is one of a series in the collection, The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change activities.
Students interpret a double bar/column chart comparing the number of tropical cyclones in different locations.