This interactive chart allows students to explore the global atmospheric concentration of methane over time.
The chart can be customized to show a specific date range (starting in 1750) and can be downloaded.
Teaching Tips
Positives
This resource is easy to use and uses data from the European Environment Agency (EEA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Additional Prerequisites
Students should know how to read a line graph.
Differentiation
Math classes can use this resource when learning about linear equations, data, and graphs.
Chemistry classes can use this resource when learning about the greenhouse gases, hydrocarbons, fossil fuels, or combustion.
Science classes can connect this resource to lessons about the greenhouse effect and climate change by researching climate solutions that address methane emissions.
This resource presents a time series data on average atmospheric concentration of CH4. Datasets acquired from NOAA are accurate and the resource is recommended for teaching.
Standards
Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
ESS3: Earth and Human Activity
MS-ESS3-3 Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.
MS-ESS3-5 Ask questions to clarify evidence of the factors that have caused the rise in global temperatures over the past century.
Common Core Math Standards (CCSS.MATH)
Statistics & Probability: Making Inferences & Justifying Conclusions (9-12)
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSS.IC.B.6 Evaluate reports based on data.
