Show Your Stripes
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Provided by: Show Your Stripes|Published on: November 15, 2023
Data, Graphs, and MapsScientist Reviewed
6-AP
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Synopsis
- This interactive tool displays changes in global temperature from 1850 to 2022 and changes in the ocean's surface temperature during that same time period.
- Students learn that global temperatures have increased dramatically during this timeframe, and the same increase is evident in ocean surface temperatures.
Subjects: Earth and Space Sciences, Mathematics
Authors: Show Your Stripes
Region: Global
Languages: English
Teaching Materials
Positives
- The tool is a visual representation that examines data from specific continents, regions, and sub-regions.
- It is easy to use and visually striking.
Additional Prerequisites
- The circular widget on each graph can be used to download and/or share the graph.
- Right above the interactive tool, there is a clickable "FAQ" section.
Differentiation
- This interactive tool can be used to create free-response questions about why global temperatures have increased so much since 1850.
- This interactive tool can supplement a classroom activity where students investigate reforms and technologies that can slow down global warming.
- It can be used to enhance a lesson on greenhouse gas emissions, where they come from, and how they impact the planet.
- Teachers can use the tool to support a lesson on the Industrial Revolution and its long-lasting impacts.
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