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__**Unit Title**__ - Climate or Not? __**Brief Summary**__ - Students will choose five cities from around the United States. They will need to record the temperature for each city along with researching each city. They will convert F to C and record their results on a chart. They will research different types of graphs and learn to use a website will help create their graphs. They will calculate the mean, median, mode, and range (F only) for each city and record their results on a chart. Upon completion of gathering information for the project, students will create their powerpoint presentations. Then orally present their powerpoints to the class. __**Curriculum-Framing Questions**__ __**Essential Question:**__ 	What are some of the factors that contribute to temperature changes throughout the world? What are the factors that would cause my students to choose their graph type? __**Unit Questions:**__	What are the ways to communicate the temperature and why are the temperatures so wide spread? __**Content Questions:**__	What is a bar graph? circle graph? line graph? pictograph? histogram? How are the different graphs similar? different?

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