Download PDF of Lesson 1 Teacher's GuideOverview
Students take the unit pretest, practice how and why scientists construct graphs to represent data and construct a graph of arctic sea ice extent from 1979-2015 and identify a trend in the data: arctic sea ice is declining.
Guiding Question
What is happening to arctic sea ice?
Activities in this Lesson
- Activity 1.1: Human Energy Systems Unit Pretest (20 min)
- Activity 1.2: Expressing Ideas and Questions about Arctic Sea Ice (40 min)
- Activity 1.3: Graphing Arctic Sea Ice (45 min)
- Activity 1.4: Drawing a Trend Line (40 min)
- Activity 1.5: Finding a Trend in Arctic Sea Ice (40 min)
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