Positives

• The Educator Materials provide a detailed overview of the activity.
• Both the ZIP file and the Resource Google Folder contain all the documents needed to complete the full activity: student worksheets, maps, graphs, and links to data.

Additional Prerequisites

• Students should know how to use spreadsheet programs to graph the data. 
• Teachers may want to walk students through the activity if students are unfamiliar with how to make predictions based on scientific modeling.

Differentiation

• After completing the activity, students could compare the results from their location to students' results from other locations to determine whether some regions of the world are more affected by warming ocean temperatures than others.
• Geography classes could learn more about the locations to see how damage to the coral reefs in the regions might impact tourism or other industries.
• Other resources on this topic include this National Park Service video on how coral health is connected to fish populations, this interactive NASA resource that provides data on ocean heat, and this lesson and experiment on ocean acidification.