Earth Climate Course - Module 1: What Determines Global Climate? - What determines global mean climate? This module guides you through background material and hands-on activities that provide a
framework for answering this guiding question. By comparing different characteristics of Earth and two of its neighboring planets, Mars
and Venus, you will learn about what makes Earth's climate habitable and why.
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Earth Climate Course - Module 2: What Determines Local Climate? - Activities and
background material
designed to develop
knowledge and skills
about the physics,
chemistry, biology,
and mathematics
related to
investigating
planetary
environments.
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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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Effect of the Sun's Energy on the Ocean and Atmosphere - How does Earth interact with the energy it receives from the sun? Is our planet in radiative balance? Calculate the earth's radiative
budget using satellite data collected by the NASA Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE).
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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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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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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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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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IMAGERS - UNIT I : Understanding Light - This unit introduces students to the basics of light as a preface to understanding how remote
sensing works. In Lesson 1, The Primary Colors of Light, students experiment with mixing
colors of light to discover that the primary colors of light are red, green, and blue. They
continue with Lesson 2's What Color is it? where they model how objects absorb and reflect
colors of light. In Lesson 3 - Introducing the Electromagnetic Spectrum, students are
introduced to different electromagnetic energy through the Electromagnetic Spectrum web site.
This content is reinforced in the Wavestown activity. This unit prepares them for the Remote
Sensing unit.
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IMAGERS - Unit II : Remote Sensing - Students begin their study of remote sensing in Lesson 1 - What are we looking at?
Students are introduced to different perspectives of viewing the Earth and their uses. This
activity leads them to seeing the Earth from a satellite perspective. Before actually looking at
satellite imagery, students learn about satellites and their components by building a satellite
model in Lesson 2 - What are Satellites? In Lesson 3, students begin to interpret satellite
imagery in the Adventure of Echo the Bat. They model how satellites transmit data in Lesson 4
- How do Satellites Work? In Lesson 5 - Interpreting Satellite Images, students study images
and identify land features.
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