Statewide Monthly/Seasonal Temperature and Precipitation
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Provided by: University of Maine Climate Office|Published on: July 24, 2023
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Synopsis
- This interactive graph and map shows the temperature and precipitation changes in Maine over the last 100+ years, allowing users to select from a number of different data sets to view.
- The map changes as you scroll over the graph and you can view data by month, year, season, growing season, frost season, or water year.
Subjects: Biology, Earth and Space Sciences, Mathematics
Authors: University of Maine Climate Office
Region: North America, USA - Northeast, United States, Maine
Languages: English
Teaching Materials
Positives
- This tool lets users see data specific to Maine's three geographical regions.
- The original data comes from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Additional Prerequisites
- If clicked, the three horizontal bars above the chart provide options for printing, downloading, and viewing the data.
- The maps and charts can only be downloaded separately, not as one image or an interactive.
Differentiation
- This interactive tool could supplement a lesson on how climate change is impacting seasonal temperatures, ecosystems, and agriculture around the world.
- Teachers could use this interactive tool to ask open-ended questions about the aspects of human activity that are causing climate change.
- This could support a classroom discussion where students consider what average Americans would think about this data.
- Math and science classes could use this resource to have students practice graphing from a data set, data analysis, and critical thinking skills.
- Science and geography classes can determine why the Coastal region of Maine has much different data than the North region.
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