What’s in the Ocean Water?

In this task, students engage in data exploration and analysis centering on a data set that contains the amount of microplastics in ocean water over time. Students work in groups to make sense of the story they can tell about the amount of microplastics in the ocean water over time. They use google sheets to create bivariate graphs and explore with regression models. They consider the shape and growth of the regression models in the data stories they write about the amount of microplastics in the ocean water over time.