Grade Level: 6-8,
9-12
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GLOBE Earth System Poster Activity Guide
The processes comprising the Earth’s environment are interconnected. Understanding how these connections operate on a global scale is to understand the Earth as a system.
Introduction: Building Claims from Evidence
Students will practice constructing claims using evidence and reasoning.
Climate Change Inquiry Lab
In this lesson, students will investigate the drivers of climate change, including adding carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, sea level rise, and the effect of decreasing sea ice on temperatures.
Air, Water, Land, & Life: A Global Perspective
In Part A of this lab, students will examine a variety of images and maps of the whole Earth in order to identify the major components of the Earth system at a global scale.
How to Calculate Sea Ice Changes Videos
This series of videos highlights how NASA Climate Scientists use mathematics to solve everyday problems. These educational videos to illustrate how math is used in satellite data analysis.
What's Causing Sea-Level Rise? Land Ice Vs. Sea Ice
In this activity, students will learn about sea ice and land ice. They will observe ice melting on a solid surface near a body of water and ice melting in a body of water.
An Earth System View of Earthrise
Students are introduced to the Earthrise phenomenon by seeing the Earth as the Apollo 8 astronauts viewed our home planet for the first time from the Moon. They will analyze a time series of mapped plots of Earth science variables that NASA monitors to better understand the Earth Syste
Blue Marble Matches: Using Earth for Planetary Comparisons
This activity is designed to introduce students to geologic processes on Earth and how to identify geologic features in images. It will also introduce students to how scientists use Earth to gain a better understanding of other planetary bodies in the solar system.
Grade Level: 3-5,
6-8
This activity invites students to model and observe the effect of melting ice sheets (from land) on sea level and the difference between the effect of melting sea-ice to that of melting land ice on sea level.
Grade Level: 3-5,
6-8
This activity invites students to simulate and observe the different effects on sea level from melting sea-ice.
Grade Level: 6-8,
9-12
Check out this the Arctic and Earth SIGNs video to explore how climate models are used in climate change research.
Grade Level: 3-5
In this lesson, Observing Earth’s Seasonal Changes, students observe patterns of average snow and ice amounts as they change from one month to another, as well as connect the concepts of the tilt and orbit of the Earth (causing the changing of seasons) with monthly snow/ice data from January 2008
Grade Level: 6-8,
9-12
Use the Data Literacy Cubes to guide students’ exploration of data to enrich their observations and inferences. This is a flexible resource that may be used with a variety of graphical representations of data. This activity requires a graph for students to evaluate.
Grade Level: 3-5,
6-8,
9-12
In this activity, students use satellite images from the NASA Landsat team to quantify changes in glacier cover over time from 1986 to 2018.
Grade Level: 3-5
This activity is one of a series in the collection, The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change activities.
