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Trends in Atmospheric Methane
Provided by:
NOAA
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Published on:
April 27, 2021
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Synopsis
This site allows users to interact with graphs and datasets depicting global average methane amounts in the atmosphere.
There is text describing the data and how it was gathered.
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Subjects:
Earth and Space Sciences
Authors:
NOAA
Region:
Global
Languages:
English
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Positives
The graphs on this site are pretty straightforward and allow for interactivity.
Additional Prerequisites
Teachers may want to provide some background about methane's relationship to climate change. This
video
could be played for students.
Students will likely be unfamiliar with units like mole fraction and parts per billion. Teachers should address these.
The data is downloadable in CSV files.
Differentiation
The reading is very technical and is probably most appropriate for upper high school students.
Students can work independently or in a small group to create a list of noticings and wonderings about the data.
Some related data about methane include
methane emissions
,
per-capita methane emissions
, and
methane emissions by sector
.
Check out this
lesson for middle school
students or this
lesson for high school
students to explore greenhouse gases.
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