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Lesson 5.1 Sample Project: Climate Change

Description

In this lesson, students will take a look at data collected by NASA to answer a question regarding our changing climate. They will learn to analyze and visualize this data in preparation for their own project and will see why models are used to describe future trends.

Objective

Students will be able to:

explore, analyze, and visualize data
use spreadsheets to manipulate data
describe why scientists use models

Activities

These are all the activities included in the lesson

5.1.1 Data Project Introduction

5.1.2 Climate Change Data: NASA

5.1.3 Introduction to Spreadsheets

5.1.4 NASA Climate Data Explore

5.1.5 NASA Climate Data Explore Answers

5.1.6 Visualizing Data with Spreadsheets

5.1.7 NASA Climate Data Visualizations

5.1.8 Submit: NASA Climate Data Visualization

5.1.9 Why Do We Use Models?

5.1.10 Reflect: Why Do We Use Models?

5.1.11 The Very Simple Climate Model