Teachers
Teachers
Welcome!
This currciulum guide contains five activities designed for grades 6-8 that incorporate real data from NOAA. The activities are organized as a pathway with five levels of increasing sophistication. Students first need to understand how to access and interpret sea surface height and tide data. To understand how to interpret these data, students will review and practice computing mean values. Along the way, they will learn how different factors such as storms affect tide levels and how to meaure them. The goal is for students to become experienced with these kinds of data and the tools for accessing them, so that, by the end of the module, they can continue to explore data sets driven by their own inquiry.
If you would like to help test and evaluate this curriculum module, begin by downloading the Teacher's Guide. After you've completed a curriculum module, be sure to fill out the evaluation survey to let us know what you think.
Download the Curriculum
Teacher's Guide: Understanding Sea Level Using Real Data (1.54 MB)
For your convenience, you can also download all the masters, handouts, and supporting materials referenced in the Understanding Sea Level Using Real Data Teacher's Guide.