What Do These Numbers Mean

In this lesson, students read charts and graphs about weather, climate, and climate change and represent data in a graph.

Inquire: Students compare types of data representation using a matching game.
Investigate: Students analyze data representation in relation to their understanding of weather, climate, and climate change.
Inspire: Students represent data in a graph and make predictions based on evidence.

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Lesson Plan

 

Partners

Grade Levels: 3-5

Duration: 110 minutes

Concepts/Skills: Weather and climate, Graphs, Patterns and predictability, Climate change, Data analysis

Objectives:

  • Ask and answer questions about data in a graph.
  • Represent data in a graph.
  • Explain the difference between climate and weather.
  • Make predictions about weather based on climate data.