In this part of the unit, students are exploring how global temperatures have changed over the past hundred years.  Students will examine tables and graphs about global temperatures and carbon dioxide levels, human consumption of food, and human consumption of natural resources.  They will find patterns in the graphs.  Based on this data, students will construct an argument about how human activities (increase in population and consumption of natural resources) cause global temperatures to increase.

In this activity, learners work in teams to study the observation skills essential to scientific research. Learners work in groups and lead one blindfolded member of the group to a tree and other various places nearby. The blindfolded team member describes what he/she smells, feels, and hears while the other members take notes. Learners switch roles and at the end, compare their observations and analyze their observational skills.

This editable google slide can be used by students to track their assessment data and standards progression in Civic Literacy. This resource was developed as part of a professional learning opportunity funded by the NCDPI Digital Learning Initiative Planning Grant.

This lesson from Illuminations illustrates how weather data can be collected and examined. In the first part, Collecting and Examining Weather Data, students organize and then examine data that has been collected over a period of time in a spreadsheet. In the second part, Representing and Interpreting Data, students use the graphing functions of a spreadsheet to help them interpret data.

This data sheet allows teachers a consistent and organized way to analyze student work by providing room for them to document noticings, wonderings, patterns, and next steps for instruction. There's also a space for teachers to record criteria for success to guide their lens for analysis.

This data sheet allows teachers a consistent and organized way to analyze student work by providing room for them to document noticings, wonderings, patterns, and next steps for instruction. There's also a space for teachers to record criteria for success to guide their lens for analysis. There is an example template provided to help guide you in your implementation of the document.

In this group task students collect data and investigate whether there is a relationship between height and hand size among the students in the class.

This activity is designed to guide students through a process-oriented lesson in analyzing data from the Tropical Storms - Esri GeoInquiries™ collection for Earth Science at http://www.esri.com/geoinquiries. Students will use storm tracking data from Hurricanes in 2005 to investigate the relationship between pressure and wind, as well as determine and explain the conditions that lead to the development of hurricanes and tropical storms.

This lesson was adapted from the resource:
"Tropical storms"
Author: GRACE
Project Provider: Michigan Virtual
Date Added: 11/21/2016
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0
Language: English
Media Format: Text/HTML

This activity is designed to guide students through a process-oriented lesson in analyzing data from the Tropical Storms - Esri GeoInquiries™ collection for Earth Science at http://www.esri.com/geoinquiries. Students will use storm tracking data from Hurricanes in 2005 to investigate the relationship between pressure and wind, as well as determine and explain the conditions that lead to the development of hurricanes and tropical storms.

This lesson was adapted from the resource:
"Tropical storms"
Author: GRACE
Project Provider: Michigan Virtual
Date Added: 11/21/2016
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0
Language: English
Media Format: Text/HTML

This activity is designed to guide students through a process-oriented lesson in analyzing data from the Tropical Storms - Esri GeoInquiries™ collection for Earth Science at http://www.esri.com/geoinquiries. Students will use storm tracking data from Hurricanes in 2005 to investigate the relationship between pressure and wind, as well as determine and explain the conditions that lead to the development of hurricanes and tropical storms.

This lesson was adapted from the resource:
"Tropical storms"
Author: GRACE
Project Provider: Michigan Virtual
Date Added: 11/21/2016
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0
Language: English
Media Format: Text/HTML

This activity is designed to guide students through a process-oriented lesson in analyzing data from the Tropical Storms - Esri GeoInquiries™ collection for Earth Science at http://www.esri.com/geoinquiries. Students will use storm tracking data from Hurricanes in 2005 to investigate the relationship between pressure and wind, as well as determine and explain the conditions that lead to the development of hurricanes and tropical storms.

This lesson was adapted from the resource:
"Tropical storms"
Author: GRACE
Project Provider: Michigan Virtual
Date Added: 11/21/2016
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0
Language: English
Media Format: Text/HTML

This activity is designed to guide students through a process-oriented lesson in analyzing data from the Tropical Storms - Esri GeoInquiries™ collection for Earth Science at http://www.esri.com/geoinquiries. Students will use storm tracking data from Hurricanes in 2005 to investigate the relationship between pressure and wind, as well as determine and explain the conditions that lead to the development of hurricanes and tropical storms.

REMIX: Tie-in Impact of storm by looking at specific storm data points before, during and well after US landfall.

This lesson was adapted from the resource:
"Tropical storms"
Author: GRACE
Project Provider: Michigan Virtual
Date Added: 11/21/2016
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0
Language: English
Media Format: Text/HTML

This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to: Calculate the mean, median, mode, and range from a frequency chart; and to use a frequency chart to describe a possible data set, given information on the mean, median, mode, and range.

In this activity, students explore the importance of adequate sampling strategies when conducting a scientific investigation. They are tasked with determining the average temperature of the Earth, using data sets easily found on the Internet, and determine the kind and size of sample necessary to calculate a representative average. The resource includes a student data sheet and an authentic assessment for the module, where students discuss the establishment of a habitation site on Mars. This is Activity C in module 2, titled "Modeling Hot and Cold Planets," of the resource, Earth Climate Course: What Determines a Planet's Climate? The course aims to help students to develop an understanding of our environment as a system of human and natural processes that result in changes that occur over various space and time scales.

In this group task students collect data and analyze from the class to answer the question "is there an association between whether a student plays a sport and whether he or she plays a musical instrument? "

The objectives of this lesson are to understand the characteristics of the data that is collected using the Radio JOVE antenna/receiver system. Using calibrations for the equipment, one can determine a proper measure of the peak intensity of the output, identify the duration of the solar or Jovian radio activity, and calculate the approximate total power emitted by the source. Master these concepts by completing example problems.

Students are introduced to several types of common medical sensor devices, such as ear and forehead thermometers, glucometers and wrist blood pressure monitors; they use the latter to measure their blood pressure and pulse rates. Students also measure their heights and weights in order to calculate their BMIs (body mass index). Then they use the collected data to create and analyze scatterplots of the different variables to determine if any relationships exist between the measured variables. Discussions about the trends observed and possible health concerns conclude the activity.

The growing number of electronics that are becoming obsolete is staggering. The responsible disposal of these materials remains to be a highly debated topic and is one that does not have an easy answer. In this problem-based learning module, students will research this growing issue and provide them opportunities to determine what actions to take. Students will then take their findings and use their research data as evidence to support their position. Groups will create a finished product in the form of a speech, radio broadcast, presentation or persuasive essay to help solve this problem.

Students are asked to analyze the data in a graph and determine if there is an association between the two variables.

This classroom activity helps students understand how the angle of the Sun affects temperatures around the globe. After experimenting with a heat lamp and thermometers at differing angles, students apply what they learned to explain temperature variations on Earth. The printable six-page handout includes a series of inquiry-based questions to get students thinking about what they already know about temperature patterns, detailed experiment directions and a worksheet that helps students use the experiment results to gain a deeper understanding of seasonal temperature changes and why Antarctica is always so cold.