Analyzing Temperature Data
Sentence Starters

(Teaching Suggestions)

Use these sentence starters to help students describe patterns, make predictions, find comparisons, share surprises and discoveries, formulate hypotheses, and ask questions.

Patterns:

  • I noticed a pattern when I looked at the data. The pattern is...
  • I see a pattern. The temperature data show....

Predictions:

  • Based on the data patterns I see so far, I predict that...
  • I predict that next month's temperatures will be...
  • My prediction for next month is...

Comparisons:

  • When I compared my local temperatures with data from Mexico, I noticed that...
  • When I compared temperature data from breeding habitats and the overwintering habitat, I noticed that...
  • The similarities [or differences] between my local temperatures and Mexico are…

Surprises and Discoveries:

  • I discovered that...
  • I was surprised by...
  • I noticed something unusual about...

Hypotheses: (Possible Reasons for Data)

  • A possible explanation for what the data showed this month is...
  • A factor that affected this month's data might have been...
  • I think this month's data was affected by...

Questions:

  • I wonder why...
  • I wonder how...
  • How are monarchs affected by...
  • How will the migration be affected by…

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