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Students can practice the meaningful skill of interpreting data.
There is enough data for students to work in small groups and have each group contribute a different graph to the class.
Additional Prerequisites
Students should know how to plot data on a line graph.
Students should know what CO2 is and how it is released into the atmosphere.
Differentiation
Younger students may need to graph the data or interpret the graphs as a whole class.
After looking at the data, students in science classes can discuss the effect CO2 and other greenhouse gases have on the atmosphere and our planet.
Language arts students can use their observations of the data as evidence in an informative essay about atmospheric CO2 levels.
Students can graph other climate-related datasets, such as global temperature rise, sea level rise, or phenological data.
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