Echo the Bat - The Adventure of Echo the Bat is a program with both online and classroom components. The first unit, Understanding Light, provides a foundation for remote sensing and introduces the electromagnetic spectrum. The unit on Remote Sensing includes the Adventure of Echo the Bat, which is an interactive Web site allowing students to follow Echo the Bat as he migrates through Arizona. The adventure offers a directed and investigative approach to how land features look from space, what the colors mean in a Landsat image, and an introduction to identifying habitats in a false color Landsat image. Students go on to identify features in other satellite images using both images off the Web site and other textual resources. A unit follows on biodiversity covering topics such as food chains, food webs and the Nature Mapping program. The site is supported with a teacher's guide that includes lesson plans, classroom activities, and reproducibles. The units can also be utilized outside the program as supplemental activities within a required curriculum. All materials are available free on the Web. Recommended level:Grades 5-8.
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Echo the Bat Pop-up Book - This picture book of Echo the Bat is accompanied by a set of activities that reinforce four basic themes or concepts fundamental to the interpretation of satellite imagery: perspective, shape and pattern, color, and texture. Activities and activity sheets are also provided on a companion Website: http://imagers.gsfc.nasa.gov/k-4/index.html. The pop-up book will be available from NASA CORE Spring 2000. Recommended level: K-4.
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GLOBE - Soil Science Education - This web site contains a lot of new, exciting, fun and informative material on the soil. There is a Soil Gallery, where
you can see the Soil of the Month and read some soil stories in Once Upon a Sandy Loam. You can even sing some soil songs in Rock 'N Soil. You can also find
out about some Secrets Hidden in the Soil. Do you know how much soil there is on the earth? Do you know what soil looks like? Does it look different during the
different seasons? Does it have different shapes? Do you know what the soil does? Do you need ideas for science fair projects?
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IMAGERS - The IMAGERS (Interactive Multimedia Adventures for Grade-school Education using Remote
Sensing) project is developed upon a framework which allows for the incorporation of new
content, geographic location, and storyline using satellite imagery as the foundation.
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Soil Stories from around the world: (Once Upon A Sandy Loam) - Once upon a sandy loam, or silt loam or clay loam, (or lots of other soils) people had wonderful experiences with the soil. Some of these people have decided to share
their stories at this web site.
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