Wunderground Activity

I used the Wunderground website to find monthly temperatures for Paris, France for 2010. I arranged the temperatures into a Google Docs Spreadsheet and created a line graph to display the data.

I could definitely use this website in class to have students gather data to put into a graphical display. Google docs is a convenient way to have students organize their data to create charts and spreadsheets. A possible alternative assignment would be to have students gather annual temperature data for a particular location over the years and to create a graph showing change over time and then have them discuss possible ways they could use the data to answer the question: "Is global warming really occurring?"