Graphing Temperature
Graphing temperatures in the ocean.
Students will construct, analyze, and interpret real data from a profiling float in the ocean. Students will explore ocean temperature trends and climate change. Students will develop critical thinking, geographical, mathematical, graphing, analyzing, and interpretation skills.
Authors: Amber Phillips; EARTH 2022
Lesson Resources
Additional Resources
- Introduction to Temperature lesson
- A Day in the Life of a Float [1-min video]
- Adopt-A-Float Viz page
- Celsius to Fahrenheit conversion
- Looking at ocean warming trends
- Sea level rise
- Ocean heat content
- Global temperatures
- Global ocean heat and salt content
- Ocean layers [2-min video]
- Converting Celcius to Fahrenheit [2-min video]
- Float animation [1-min video]
- Taking temperature of the ocean-Argo Floats [1:40min]
- Argo Floats: How floats are able to measure much more of the ocean [6-min video]
- Explaining Argo float in 35 seconds video
