Gulf of Maine Daily Sea Surface Temperature

Positives

• The data in the graph is specific to the Gulf of Maine and allows students to explore temperature differences throughout the year and between years.
  
• Useful information about the data and its presentation is provided below the map, along with additional links.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• The data for each year can be hovered over to highlight that year's temperatures, but if you click on that year, it will disappear in the chart. This allows you to deselect years you do not wish to view.
  

Differentiation

• This resource could supplement a lesson on the basics of climate change and how humans are causing it.
• This resource could augment a classroom discussion on how increases in saltwater temperatures are impacting marine ecosystems.
• This resource could be used to create free-response questions on how humans could reduce sea surface temperatures around the world.
• Have math students download the data and then create graphs that compare average annual sea surface temperatures between years or monthly average sea surface temperatures from the most recent year to 1981.