Temperature Variability
Data Story
Students analyze data about ocean air and water temperatures to create a graph that provides evidence to answer the question, Which substance has the most variable temperature, air or water? Students then use the graph to make a claim about the substances’ specific heat.
Welcome to this Tuva data story! The data here are for air and water temperatures (every other hour) during a two-week period in October 2017 at four ocean research buoys off the coasts of Monterey, CA; Galveston, TX; Penobscot Bay, ME; and Halifax, Nova Scotia. The buoys are part of an extensive network of ocean monitoring buoys around the world. They are maintained by cooperative partnerships among NOAA, universities, other research institutions, and other federal agencies. In this data story, you will use the information in the dataset as evidence for a claim that answers the following question: Which substance has the most variable temperature, air or water? Click Next to begin!
Topics and standards: Science, Energy, Ocean, Physical Science, Earth Science, Weather, Evaluating Claims, Claim-Evidence-Reasoning, MS-ESS2-6, HS-PS3-2, Grades 9-12, Grades 6-8, Thermal Energy, TEKS Science 8.10.A, TEKS Science 8.10.C, TEKS Science CHEM.10.A, TEKS Science CHEM.10.B, TEKS Science CHEM.10.C, TEKS Science CHEM.13.C, TEKS Science PHY.6.E, TEKS Science PHY.7.B, TEKS Science PHY.7.C, TEKS Science ENV.7.C, TEKS Science IPC.6.A, TEKS Science IPC.6.D, 6-ESS2-1, 6-ESS2-2, 6-ESS2-3, CHEM1-PS1-11, CHEM1-PS3-1, 3.3.6-8.I, 3.2.9-12.P