Positives

• This tool provides innumerable data, including annual, seasonal, monthly, and daily sections for global and national information.
• A video is available to give instructions and provides a practical demonstration for students.

Additional Prerequisites

• An instructional video is attached to this interactive tool.
• For CO₂ emissions, this tool only provides the annual emissions of individual countries.
• Teachers can download the data as a spreadsheet.
• It may benefit students to go over the labels and units of measurement before they do any independent exploration.

Differentiation

• This interactive tool can supplement a classroom activity where students investigate continental/sub-continental differences in CO₂ emissions.
• Teachers can use this interactive tool to create free-response questions about climate variable changes in America since 1950.
• This interactive tool can augment a lesson on the connection between CO₂ emissions and changes in the Earth's climate.
• This interactive tool pairs well with the resource titled CFR Education: Who Releases the Most Greenhouse Gasses? for further exploration on emissions from country to country.
• Have students practice using the tool's features by giving them a series of questions to find. For example, students can use the precipitation filter and time slider to answer the question, "How many mm/year of precipitation did Greenland receive in 1967?"
• Students in language arts classes can use this tool to gather evidence to support informative or persuasive pieces of writing about climate change.