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Watching the Land Temperature Bell Curve Heat Up (1950-2020)
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NASA
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Published on:
April 27, 2021
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Synopsis
This brief video is an animation of land temperature anomaly distributions through time from 1950 to 2020.
Students will see that in the seventy-year period, hotter days have increased and colder days have decreased in regularity.
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Subjects:
Earth and Space Sciences, Mathematics
Authors:
NASA
Region:
Global
Languages:
English
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Positives
The data clearly displays an increase in warmer than normal temperatures on land over time.
There is a link in the description to download the video and learn more about the methodology.
Additional Prerequisites
Students should know how to read a bell curve.
Students should know the terms normal distribution and anomaly.
Differentiation
Students can compare the data to this
video
on global warming data and this
video
on Greenland ice loss data.
A lesson related to this topic is
Is Your City Getting Warmer?: Data Analysis in Google Sheets
.
This other
lesson
can help students understand the differences between weather and climate.
Students can also do this
activity
where they analyze air temperature graphs.
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