Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The data on this map will certainly connect to many standards on statistics in the common core curriculum, but I especially like how the context sets the stage for a classroom discussion on Global Warming.

Perhaps students could turn this data into a bar graph and discuss measures of dispersion and then compare those values to the same map per capita (which will also deepen the mathematical discussion):

source: http://www.mylife.com/blog/us-greenhouse-gas-emissions-by-state/