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What Are Some Factors That Affect Seasonal Patterns?
Abstract
The purpose of this resource is to have students use GLOBE data and graphing tools to compare the influence of latitude, elevation, and geography on seasonal patterns. Students analyze the graph of the past year's maximum and minimum temperatures at their site. They compare this graph to similar graphs for two other sites and list which factors that might cause the patterns to be different and investigate one in depth. Educational levels: Middle school, High school- Learning materials:Classroom activity
- InteractiveResource
- Environmental science
- seasons
- phenology
- climate
- Supports National Science Education Standards (NSES): 9-12:Unifying Concepts and Processes Standards:Change, constancy, and measurement
- Supports National Science Education Standards (NSES): 9-12:Unifying Concepts and Processes Standards:Evidence, models, and explanation
- Supports National Science Education Standards (NSES): 9-12:Unifying Concepts and Processes Standards:Systems, order, and organization
- Supports National Science Education Standards (NSES): 9-12:Content Standard A Science as Inquiry Standards:Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
- Supports National Science Education Standards (NSES): 9-12:Content Standard A Science as Inquiry Standards:Understandings about scientific inquiry
- Supports National Science Education Standards (NSES): 9-12:Content Standard B Physical Science Standards:Interactions of energy and matter
- Supports National Science Education Standards (NSES): 9-12:Content Standard D Earth and Space Science Standards:Energy in the earth system
- Supports National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE) standard: Places and Regions:That people create regions to interpret Earth's complexity
- Supports National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE) standard: The World in Spatial Terms:How to analyze the spatial organization of people, places, and environments on Earth's surface
- Supports National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE) standard: The World in Spatial Terms:How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information
- Supports National Science Education Standards (NSES): 5-8:Unifying Concepts and Processes Standards:Change, constancy, and measurement
- Supports National Science Education Standards (NSES): 5-8:Unifying Concepts and Processes Standards:Evidence, models, and explanation
- Supports National Science Education Standards (NSES): 5-8:Unifying Concepts and Processes Standards:Systems, order, and organization
- Supports National Science Education Standards (NSES): 5-8:Content Standard A Science as Inquiry Standards:Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
- Supports National Science Education Standards (NSES): 5-8:Content Standard A Science as Inquiry Standards:Understanding about scientific inquiry
- Supports National Science Education Standards (NSES): 5-8:Content Standard B Physical Science Standards:Properties and changes of properties in matter
- Supports National Science Education Standards (NSES): 5-8:Content Standard B Physical Science Standards:Transfer of energy
- Supports National Science Education Standards (NSES): 5-8:Content Standard D Earth and Space Science Standards:Structure of the earth system
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This paper was published in Digital Library for Earth System Education.
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