Teaching Tips

• The best way to view the lesson is to click on "Try as a Student" on the right-hand side of the web page. This step was not intuitive, and may take an educator some time to navigate. It is recommended teachers look through the lesson in advance.
• Questions become less prescriptive with which variables to add to which axes as students progress, so some students may require more support with later questions.

About the Content

• This is an interactive graphing exercise. Students manipulate the axis in an interactive graph to understand the correlation between rising mean global temperature and carbon dioxide emissions.
• Students are asked questions to better understand the graphing tool and are encouraged to explore to see what conclusions they can take from the dataset.
• Passed initial science review - expert science review pending.

About the Pedagogy

• The lesson offers engaging questions/background information and thorough instructions on how to create various scatter plots applying different variables to the x and y axis.
• The resource provides a space to respond to questions and a light bulb to click on to see the possible responses/answers.
• Students are allowed to explore the dataset and learn graphing techniques as they change the variables they are looking for. Students are able to investigate correlations between these variables and discover conclusions.
• Student will need some background in statistics.

• This resource engages students in using scientific data.
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Technical Details/Ease of Use

• This lesson is ready for online use and requires computer access.
• There is no cost associated with the lesson. Educators will need to create log-in information for the website, which is free.
• The website is easy to use and clear guides are provided.