Atmosphere-Ocean Model - This site provides climate simulations using the NASA/GISS
Atmosphere-Ocean Model for years 1950-2099.
50 different climate variables are available for
downloading, or complicated color plots can be
created interactively on the web.
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Consortium for the Application of Space Data to Education - This is a great site to utilize if students wish to display large data sets into frames and framelets.
The DataSlate browser allows the user to navigate very large file systems were these data sets
covering the same area are stored together. DataSlate has a simple set of controls for selecting
and viewing data sets. When DataSlate is invoked it searches for a default data inventory label,
which identifies data collections that are available for viewing and presents icons on the display
screen for each data collection.
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Educator Resource Center - The Educator Resource Center at the Goddard Space Flight Center serves educators in the eleven northeastern states (Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont) and the District of Columbia.
Located at the Goddard Visitor Center, the Educator Resource Center is a place where educators can come and use NASA resources to develop their aerospace education programs.
Here educators research, gather ideas and duplicate audiovisual materials.
Materials available at the resource laboratory reflect NASA's research and technology development and relate to such curricula areas as astronomy, Earth science, aeronautics,
mathematics, physical science and life science. Teachers in disciplines other than science and mathematics are encouraged to explore ways in which aerospace materials may be
incorporated into their classroom lessons.
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Enhancement of the Global Systems Science Student Guide Series for the Digital Earth Initiative - Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc., Boston's Museum of Science, Lawrence Hall of Science in
Berkeley, CA, and Logal.net will digitize and enhance the Global Systems Science (GSS) Student guide
series for interactive use on the Internet and the Digital Earth
Initiative. The GSS Student guide series, developed during the past eight years at the Lawrence Hall of
Science, can be combined in various ways to create an interdisciplinary high school course. In the GSS
approach students integrate the traditional disciplines to probe the interactions among the atmosphere,
ocean, ice, solid Earth, and living organisms that shape Earth's evolution and its future. Students study the
traditional disciplines, not as ends in themselves, but as tools for
a scientific understanding of Earth as an integrated system. The course draws on a variety of disciplines to
illustrate how scientists investigate the ways that human activities interact with Earth systems. The content
and pedagogy of the Global Systems Science course reflects the four goals that lie at the heart of the
National Science Education Standards:
1) GSS starts with real-world societal issues selected to evoke interest, excitement, and an
appreciation of the value of science.
2) Through laboratory activities and discussions, students are given opportunities to investigate and
apply the scientific processes and principles that inform each of the issues.
3) Students are encouraged to discuss their changing perspectives as the course proceeds, and to
think about how they can affect the outcome in each area of concern through personal decisions.
4) Students are motivated to continue their study of technical fields as they encounter a wide
diversity of role models featured in the GSS Student guides.
The nine-part GSS Student guide series will be digitized, not only by creating hypertext links between the
documents, but by developing an educational software interface that creates organic, living documents
connected to any data accessible on the Internet. Logal.net has developed revolutionary software that
displays, overlays, and interacts with any Internet data source on one computer screen. Science, education,
research, technology, and public policies will all be integrated and available for students, public planners,
the media, and the general public to explore, analyze, and make decisions.
Contact: John Pickle, Staff Scientist for Education Development, Atmospheric and Environmental
Research, Inc. (AER), 840 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139-3771; Phone: (617) 349-2277; Fax:
(617) 661-6479; Email: jpickle@aer.com
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ERBE Data Visualizer - A Java applet that allows interactive viewing and manipulation of satellite data in order to examine in detail earth's radiation balance.
The data was collected by NASA's Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) project.
(Added: 14-Jun-1999 Hits: 874) [Spider search][grade levels: unspecified]
Exploring the Environment - On-line, problem-based modules developed by NASA's Classroom of the Future for K-4, 5-8, and 9-12 teachers and students. Modules address events such as volcanoes, hurricanes, dinosaur extinction theories, deforestation, endangered species, and global change. Use of NASA remote sensing images is a feature of the site - with tutorials about how to analyze Landsat images with NIH Image. Recommended level: K-12.
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Forces of Change - Forces of Change is a comprehensive program being developed by the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, through funding from NASA and other donors, to explain the geological, environmental, and historical processes that have shaped our world. It will consist of a permanent exhibit in the Museum, a traveling exhibit, publications, interactive computer programs, and public programming which will include a lecture series and electronic classroom courses.
The cornerstone of the Forces of Change program is a permanent exhibit in the National Museum of Natural History scheduled to open early in 2001. The 5,400 sq. foot display will examine the forces of change that have shaped and sustained the Earth since the beginning of geologic time. The goal of the exhibit will be to inform visitors about the history and present condition of our environment as the world prepares to enter the 21st century. The exhibit will be a marriage of traditional and high-tech approaches to learning about Earth systems and managing our precious natural resources. Upon entering, visitors will encounter the Earth Systems Monitoring Station, a multi-media display of remote-sensing imagery, real-time data links, historic evidence and other techniques that demonstrate how the Earth is affected by geological, environmental, and human changes, and how all of these processes are interconnected. A rotating case study area will highlight regional themes, changing every two years and allowing visitors to learn about how global forces have affected specific parts of the planet. The inaugural section on Antarctica will illustrate how the relatively pristine landscape of this remote continent serves as a living laboratory for scholars around the world interested in studying the processes of global change through geologic time. Other regional studies under consideration are the North American Grasslands, Hawaii, the Chesapeake Bay and Amazonia.
In addition to the exhibit, Forces of Change will be available in a variety of formats - videos, CD-ROMs, and posters - for use in: classrooms, municipal buildings, malls, and airports. A traveling exhibit on agriculture in the North American grasslands will circulate through libraries nationwide and a richly illustrated coffee-table book, published by National Geographic, will further articulate the programs themes.
Contact: Barbara Stauffer, National Museum of Natural History, Office of Exhibits, 10th and Constitution, Washington, DC 20560 -0101; Phone: (202) 357 -2377; Fax: (202) 786 -2567; Email: stauffer.barbara@nmnh.si.edu
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GEEBITT (Excel file) - The Global Equilibrium Energy Balance Interactive Tinker Toy is an Excel based spreadsheet model for Windows PCs that allows
students to study the effects of climate variables on the earth.
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ICP Interactive Courseware - Using Multimedia Toolbook, a PC Windows-based authoring software package, interactive curriculum modules have been developed as
auto-tutorial teaching tools to help students learn basic physical concepts as well as several meteorological applications.
The applications presented at this site can be used on IBM/compatible PCs running Microsoft Windows 3.x/95/NT and Netscape Navigator
2.0+ or Microsoft's Internet Explorer 3.0+, with the required plug-in, Neuron, installed.
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Project SUN - Students Understanding Nature - NASA's Genesis Mission currently sponsors Project SUN as part of its outreach effort to instill
knowledge in students about the natural links between the Earth and Sun. Through Project SUN, secondary students all over the world are contributing to the long term, time
resolved, monitoring of both visible and UV radiation on the Earth's surface. Data is usually transmitted to
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) via the Internet. Participating schools purchase their own
equipment, total cost about $600, not including the cost of a computer supplied by the school to use for
the data logger. Schools agree to supply NASA JPL at least two days of data per week for a full school
year. The equipment can be used the other three days for individual research projects such as investigation
of the efficiency of different items of solar energy equipment, use of UV skin blockers, effects of
enhanced UV radiation on plants, etc. It is hoped each school will integrate Project SUN as a continuing
program, using the concept of a school research team, just as the school has established athletic teams. Contact: Gilbert Yanow, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mail Stop 264-370, 4800 Oak Grove Dr.,
Pasadena, CA 91109; Phone (818) 354-8060, Fax (818) 393-1392;
Email: gilbert.yanow@jpl.nasa.gov
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