EET Workshops Implementation Sharing Template s1

EET Workshops Implementation

Name: Mr. Jerry L. Price

Position and school: Earth-Space Science Teacher, Environmental & Sustainable Science Teacher

Title of the EET Chapter on which you based your Project or Activity:

Investigating Climate Change Using Observed Temperature Data

Dataset(s) Used: Global Summary of the Day for Barrows, Alaska Global Summary of the Day for Key West, Fla.

Tool Used:

Global Summary of the Day (GSOD) from NOAA Excel Powerpoint

Project/Activity Question(s):  For any given location, how does surface temperature change throughout a year, between years, or across multiple years?

Project/Activity Goal(s):  To download and manipulate data from NOAAs GSOD for at least two very different regional areas

Brief Description of the Project/Activity (What did students do?):  Learned how to launch and manipulate NOAA’s data portal  To convert a txt/csv file into an Excel spreadsheet  To manipulate data in order to produce an intelligible graph temp vs time  Do this for time periods decades apart and for a very diverse region  Compare the two data sets  Draw conclusions from the graphs and from the data  To produce a Powerpoint presentation of their findings and conclusions

Number of Students (With how many students did you carry out the project/activity?): 75 students (3 classes) working in groups of 2 Time Spent on the Project/Activity (How many hours or class periods did the project/activity take?): 3 days ( or four periods )

Your Reflections on the Project/Activity:

 How do you feel the project/activity went with students?

The project/activity was very successful… Students learned how to launch & manipulate NOAA’s data portal… They learned how to query their data and save it as a CSV file… How to import that data in an Excel spreadsheet…Manipulate the data, makes graphs and draw conclusions from both

 What sorts of questions did student ask? What insights did they have? How proficient are students in using the dataset and/or tool of the EET chapter?

The students were fascinated by the idea all these datasets are available on the internet (including NOAA)-- They became very proficient by the end of the activity

 How will you carry out this project/activity differently in the future?

Yes especially in my environmental & sustainable science class..