Burbank Climate and Weather
Instructions
Burbank Climate and Weather
(under construction)
Software: Microsoft Excel (or Google Sheets)
Key Terms: Climate, Weather, Climate Normals, climate change, global warming, mean, standard deviation, normal curve, outliers, standard score, null hypothesis.
Student Learning Objectives:
Student demonstrates basic comprehension of several key concepts in weather and climate.
Student successfully opens cloud-based computing application.
Student demonstrates basic skills with spreadsheet software.
Student comprehends the utility of several key inferential statistics.
Students successfully calculates several basic statistics.
Student calculates a magnitude of difference score for weather events vs. climate patterns.
Student recognizes the magnitude of average temperature change in Southern California versus 30-year climate normal.
Student successfully creates graphics using spreadsheet software.* optional
Videos - Tutorials for completing the exercise in Microsoft Excel.
**Note that if you are not at CSUN, then you should skip to about 1:30 in the video tutorial. You can use the data in the Google Sheet below, or download the Excel version of the file and use that in Excel.
Questions (under construction)
1. _________ _______ is the term to describe a nearly world-wide increase in our planet's temperature. (two words)
2. ________________ is the term to describe long-term, significant, alterations in weather patterns. (two words)
Data in Google Sheets.
DO NOT REQUEST ACCESS to this data. Just save a copy for yourself. It's already "shared".
If you want to open this data in Excel either open the file in Google Sheets and download it as an Excel file from there, or use the link below from DropBox
