Grade Level: 6-8,
9-12
This mini lesson focuses on Earth's Energy Budget and the surface effects that occur in Central Australia.
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Analyzing Earth’s Energy Imbalance by Latitude and Month
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How are Phytoplankton and Sea Surface Temperatures Related?
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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
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Analyzing Seasonal Phytoplankton & Energy Flow
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What is Albedo?
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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 Historic Ocean Chlorophyll Concentration Data with Maps
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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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Earth's Energy: Shortwave Radiation
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Explore Albedo
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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
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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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Estimating Biomass Loss from a Large Fire
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Observing Annual Vegetation Changes
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Systems and System Models: Observing Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere
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Systems and System Models: Megadroughts in our future?
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Systems and System Models: Observing Our Planet on Fire
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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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Analysis & Application of Seasonal Vegetation Data: Student Activity
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Glacier Retreat
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Analyzing Surface Air Temperatures by Latitude
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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 a Graph of Surface Temperature of Urban Areas
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Interpreting Earth's Energy Budget
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Exploring Energy and Matter with Chlorophyll Data
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Energy and Matter: Shortwave Radiation
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Energy and Matter: Longwave Radiation
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Energy and Matter: Exploring Ocean Salinity
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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
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Grade Level: 6-8
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.
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
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.
