The Tipping Point - Data Puzzles webinar

In this Data Puzzle, students engage with an interactive reading before analyzing and interpreting authentic datasets to discover that rising temperatures increase the reproductive success of moss campion up to a certain point, the tipping point, beyond which the plant's reproductive rates dramatically decline! The results of this study inspire many other interesting questions, What does this mean for the rest of the tundra ecosystem? And what other climate "tipping points" should we be aware of?

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Jon Griffith is a Curriculum Developer at CIRES. He works on several projects at CIRES as a curriculum developer, including the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) international. Prior to joining the CIRES Center for Education, Engagement, and Evaluation Jon was most recently a middle school life science and physical science teacher at Mount Elden Middle School in Flagstaff, Arizona. Before becoming a classroom teacher, Jon was a graduate student at Northern Arizona University (NAU), receiving an MS in geology studying lake sediments as a proxy for past climate and environmental change. He earned a MAT-S (Master of Arts in Teaching Science) and NAU and a BS in Geology at Union College. He is passionate about connecting students to the natural world through authentic and engaging science curriculum.