Graphing Temperature Models

• This lesson introduces students to graphing using historic temperatures on Earth.
• The lesson includes a teacher guide, a student handout (with a blank graph), and links to the data sources from NASA and National Geographic.

Positives

• This is a straightforward lesson that teaches students how to graph data and incorporates climate change data.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• You may want to review the NASA link with students before doing the graphing exercise to provide context to the lesson.
  

Differentiation

• This lesson could be used in science classes to introduce greenhouse gases, paleoclimates, the diversity of life on Earth, mass extinction events, or climate modeling.
• This lesson could be used in math classes to learn graphing skills in a real-world context.
• Other resources related to this topic include Drivers of CO₂ Emissions and Climate Change Solutions Simulator.
  

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