Astronaut Photos of Earth - The Earth Science home page provides access to the database of the Office of Earth Science/Johnson
Space Center containing records of the location and description of over 350,000 astronaut photographs of
the Earth. Other features include image highlights from shuttle missions and from the Shuttle/Mir
missions. Internet guests may also view Space Shuttle orbit track maps and calculate shuttle positions
when specific times are entered into the program.
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Climates and Weather Explained: Some Brief Articles - A complement to the book by E. Linacre and B. Geerts, published by Routledge, 1997. The Web site
consists of over 400 articles summarizing key issues and recent findings in atmospheric sciences. The
objective is to give undergraduate-level students (and those trained at that level) a more balanced and more
in-depth understanding of current issues in climate. Prerequisite: An introductory college course in
weather and climate.
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Destination Earth: the Official Website for NASA's Earth Science Enterprise - This site should be your starting point for learning about NASA's Earth Science Enterprise (ESE).
Includes current ESE news and events, sections on education for teachers (Teaching Earth Science) and
students (For Kids Only), information on current research opportunities, an Earth Science Image Gallery,
and Multimedia Library. Many links to other information resources are also included.
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Earth Observatory - WWW site where the public can obtain new satellite imagery and scientific information about Earth, focusing on climate and environmental change. Visit the Earth Observatory to read feature articles on wide-ranging Earth system science topics, as well as see the latest images, media alerts, and summaries of Earth science headlines from radio, newspaper, and television. The Experiments section includes classroom activities and experiments.
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Earth System Science Education Alliance (ESSEA) - The Earth System Science Education Alliance (ESSEA), a partnership between the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), the Center for Educational Technologies (CET) at Wheeling Jesuit University, through funding from NASA's Earth Science Enterprise, is an exciting and innovative professional development program.
ESSEA will support universities, colleges, and science education organizations in offering K-12 Earth system science (ESS) online graduate courses that have been developed within the CET at Wheeling Jesuit University for NASA's Earth Science Enterprise. The Earth system science courses use an innovative instructional design model, are delivered over the Internet, and feature student-centered, knowledge-building virtual communities. Successful proposers will participate in an intensive four-day training workshop to learn how to deliver the courses.
The ESS courses feature student-centered, knowledge-building communities in which groups of teacher/participants engage in problem solving, model building, and classroom activity design. A master teacher and/or an Earth system scientist who act as guides and mentors throughout the 16-week courses, moderate participants. Participants' expectations are set through the use of rubrics for individual and group work as they learn new ESS content, become knowledgeable about new resources, develop confidence in the use of technology, and design new classroom activities.
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Education Resources for Oceanography - Resources on oceanography and Earth Sciences, appropriate for elementary through undergraduate
education.
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El NiŅo Web Site - The NASA Seasonal to Interannual Prediction Project (NSIPP), which is part of the Laboratory for
Hydrospheric Processes at NASA GSFC, has produced an El NiŅo Web site. This site includes a
nine-page El NiŅo-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) primer, appropriate for general audiences, which presents
background information, graphics, data and images, and audio, on this timely topic.
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