Grade Level: 6-8,
9-12
The energy budget diagram on the front shows our best understanding of energy flows into and away from the Earth.
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A Mini Urban Heat Island
If students cannot do day and night, this can be modified for early morning and later in the day. Other options are surfaces in direct sunlight and shadows, cloudy versus clear days or adding more surfaces.
Analyzing Historic Ocean Chlorophyll Concentration Data with Maps: Student Activity
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Exploring Historic Ocean Chlorophyll Concentrations for Different Regions with Graphs: Student Activity
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How are Phytoplankton and Sea Surface Temperatures Related? (Student Activity)
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Explore Albedo Values: Student Activity
Students will use the NASA Earth Observations analysis tool to explore changing albedo in the Arctic compared with other areas of Earth. Students should notice that the northernmost areas experience a greater variation.
An Island Transforms through Erosion and Deposition
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An Island Forms and Changes: Student Activity
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Using Models to Explore Chlorophyll and Radiation Data: Student Activity
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Analyzing Seasonal Phytoplankton & Energy Flow: Student Activity
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Identifying Changes in Land Use: Student Activity
Teachers who are interested in receiving the answer key, please contact MND from your school email address at larc-mynasadata@mail.nasa.gov.
Earth System Energy Travels (Student Activity)
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Earth's Heating Imbalances (Student Activity)
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Examining a Simplified Model of Cloud Effects on Earth’s Energy Budget (Student Activity)
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Clouds & Earth's Climate with Dr. Patrick Taylor Video (Student Activity)
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Analyzing Earth’s Energy Imbalance by Latitude and Month (Student Activity)
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Evaluating Natural and Human Activities Effects on Earth's Climate
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Carbon Dioxide Production and Sequestration
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Exploring Cryosphere's Seasonal Thaw: Student Activity
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Observing Annual Vegetation Changes
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Systems and System Models: Observing Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere (Student Activity)
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Systems and System Models: Megadroughts in our future? (Student Activity)
Drought conditions have affected much of the U.S. Southwest and Central Plains in recent years. But scientists now believe future droughts in the last half of this century could be the worst in the past millennium.
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Cause and Effect: How do our forests change over time?
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How does the Cryosphere change over the seasons? (Student Activity)
Explore the spatial patterns observed in meteorological data and learn how this information is used to predict weather and understand climate behavior. By observing patterns in data we can classify our observations and investigate underlying cause and effect relationships.
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Stability and Change: Changes in Sea Ice (Student Activity)
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Scale, Proportion, and Quantity: Ice Flow Model (Student Activity)
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Data Jigsaw: Exploring Sea Level Rise with Others
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Analysis & Application of Seasonal Vegetation Data: Student Activity
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Glacier Retreat
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Estimating Biomass Loss from a Large Fire
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Interpreting Earth's Energy Budget: Student Activity
The energy budget diagram on the front shows our best understanding of energy flows into and away from the Earth.
Exploring Energy and Matter with Chlorophyll Data: Student Activity
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Energy and Matter: Water Cycle & The Ocean's Temperature
This is the first of a four-part series on the water cycle. The other videos are available online:
The Water Cycle: Following The Water:
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=10885
Energy and Matter: Dust Transport (Student Activity)
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Grade Level: 3-5,
6-8,
9-12
Students review the NASA video showing biosphere data over the North Atlantic Ocean as a time series animation displaying a decade of phytoplankton blooms and answer questions that follow.
Grade Level: 6-8
Students review a video showing a global view of the top-of-atmosphere shortwave radiation from January 26 and 27, 2012 and answer the questions that follow.
Grade Level: 6-8
Students review a visualization showing a global view of the top-of-atmosphere longwave radiation from January 26 and 27, 2012. They review the supporting text and analyze the data in the visualization to answer questions.
Grade Level: 6-8
This NASA visualization shows sea surface salinity observations (September 2011-September 2014). Students review the video and answer questions.
Grade Level: 6-8
Students review a video showing how the ocean is warmed by solar energy. This is the first video of a four-part series on the water cycle, which follows the journey of water from the ocean to the atmosphere, to the land, and back again to the ocean.
Grade Level: 6-8,
9-12
Examine a model and answer questions about dust transport around the world.
