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Watching the Land Temperature Bell Curve Heat Up (1950-2020)
Provided by: NASA |Published on: April 27, 2021
Videos Grades 6-8, 9-12
Synopsis
- This brief video is an animation of land temperature anomaly distributions through time from 1950 to 2020.
- Students will see that in the seventy-year period, hotter days have increased and colder days have decreased in regularity.
Subjects: Earth and Space Sciences, Mathematics
Authors: NASA
Region: Global
Languages: English
Teaching Materials
Positives
- The data clearly displays an increase in warmer than normal temperatures on land over time.
- There is a link in the description to download the video and learn more about the methodology.
Additional Prerequisites
- Students should know how to read a bell curve.
- Students should know the terms normal distribution and anomaly.
Differentiation
- Students can compare the data to this video on global warming data and this video on Greenland ice loss data.
- A lesson related to this topic is Is Your City Getting Warmer?: Data Analysis in Google Sheets.
- This other lesson can help students understand the differences between weather and climate.
- Students can also do this activity where they analyze air temperature graphs.
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Resource Type and Format
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