Statewide Monthly/Seasonal Temperature and Precipitation

• 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.

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.