Sea Level Trends

Positives

• Students will benefit from the extensive data for each location in the article.
• The article makes unknown words easy to understand with in-text definitions.

Additional Prerequisites

• If students want to download one of the charts as a PDF or PNG file, they must click the three bars above each chart.
• This article has a "Data Notes" section at the bottom, providing data collection information regarding these line charts.
• The article does an excellent job of defining unknown terms within the text. Some students may still benefit from having terms such as southerly, westerly, isostatic rebound, and others defined before reading the article.

Differentiation

• Students can use this article for a research project on sea level rise around North America since the early 20th century.
• Teachers can use this article to create free-response questions about the impact of sea level rise on ecosystems and biodiversity.
• Students can discuss the human activities causing sea level rise and what systemic changes are necessary to reverse the trend.
• Students can research the impacts of sea level rise on coastal communities and the adaptation strategies that communities are implementing.
• Math teachers can give students the table data and have them plot the points on a graph, checking their work with the graph in the article.