This mini lesson focuses on Earth's Energy Budget and the surface effects that occur in Central Australia. Students review a line graph depicting net radiation in Central Australia related to a multiyear drought from 2002 - 2009 and answer the questions.
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Using Models to Explore Chlorophyll and Radiation Data
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Analyzing Seasonal Phytoplankton & Energy Flow
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Analyzing Cloud Effects on Earth’s Energy Budget
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Earth System Energy Travels
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Earth's Heating Imbalances
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Examining a Simplified Model of Cloud Effects on Earth’s Energy Budget
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Clouds & Earth's Climate with Dr. Patrick Taylor Video
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Analyzing Earth’s Energy Imbalance by Latitude and Month
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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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An Island Forms and Changes
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Shaconage: Blue Smoke
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Correlating Shortwave Radiation and Cloud Coverage
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Using Graphs: Identify and Interpret
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Valuing Albedo
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Atmospheric Methane
This mini-lesson may be used to support student understanding of a commonly used model of Earth’s energy budget and clarify terminology used within the context of that model.
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Describing Radiation in Earth’s Energy Budget
This mini-lesson may be used to support student understanding of a commonly used model of Earth’s energy budget and clarify terminology used within the context of that model.
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Extreme July 2022 Temperatures
This mini-lesson may be used to support student understanding of a commonly used model of Earth’s energy budget and clarify terminology used within the context of that model.
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What is a Solar Eclipse?
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How Will Different Locations in the US Experience the 2024 Solar Eclipse?
The length of totality also depends on where on the planet’s surface the shadow falls (elevation), how far away the Moon is from Earth, and how far Earth is from the Sun at that time.
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How Does a Solar Eclipse Affect Air Temperature?
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What is the Difference between a Solar Eclipse and a Lunar Eclipse?
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What is the Sun's Corona?
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An Island Transforms through Erosion and Deposition
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Observing Annual Vegetation Changes
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Systems and System Models: Megadroughts in our future?
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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?
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Stability and Change: Changes in Sea Ice
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Scale, Proportion, and Quantity: Ice Flow Model
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Data Jigsaw: Exploring Sea Level Rise with Others
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Glacier Retreat
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Estimating Biomass Loss from a Large Fire
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Identifying Changes in Land Use
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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.


Interpreting Earth's Energy Budget
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Exploring Energy and Matter with Chlorophyll Data
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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:
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10885
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.
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.
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.
This NASA visualization shows sea surface salinity observations (September 2011-September 2014). Students review the video and answer questions.
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.
This mini lesson engages students in watching a NASA video related to accumulated dust that makes the trans-Atlantic journey from the Sahara Desert to the Amazon rainforest using NASA's CALIPSO satellite.