Zoom In on Beach Trash

Data Story

Using a dataset from beach trash collections, students pull information from bar graphs of different scales, calculate differences, and make predictions based on the information presented in scaled bar graphs.

Welcome to this Tuva data story! Communities collected trash on their beaches and recorded what and how much they found. By changing the scale on the bar chart, you can zoom in to find differences in the types of trash one community found on their beach. Click Next to begin!

Topics and standards: Science, Proportion, Earth Science, Scale, Human Impacts, Pollution & Waste, Quantity, Zoom In, Bar Charts, Compare Groups