Students will use coloring sheets to create a color coded model of El Niño. If the Data Literacy Map Cube is used with this, students should color their models first.
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Stability and Change: Changes in Sea Ice (Student Activity)
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Earth System Energy Travels (Student Activity)
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Using Models to Explore Chlorophyll and Radiation Data: Student Activity
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Comparing Winds & Surface Ocean Currents
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An Island Forms and Changes: Student Activity
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Tracking Monthly Salinity Changes in Our Ocean
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Ocean Salinity Data Analysis
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Ocean Surface Salinity Data Analysis
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How are Phytoplankton and Sea Surface Temperatures Related? (Student Activity)
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Exploring Historic Ocean Chlorophyll Concentrations for Different Regions with Graphs: Student Activity
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Analyzing Historic Ocean Chlorophyll Concentration Data with Maps: Student Activity
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Tropical Cyclone Counts Scatter Plot
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Stability and Change: Monitoring Sea Level
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Data Jigsaw: Exploring Sea Level Rise with Others
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Hurricane Harvey's Effect on Soil Moisture
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Exploring Cryosphere's Seasonal Thaw: Student Activity
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Changing Freshwater Reservoirs: Student Activity
Freshwater is found in lakes, rivers, soil, snow, groundwater and ice, and is one of the most essential of Earth's resources, for drinking water and agriculture. However, the distribution of freshwater around the planet is changing.

Tropical Cyclone Counts Bar/Column Chart
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Tropical Cyclone Counts Histogram
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Tropical Cyclone Counts Model
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Tropical Cyclone Counts Box Plot
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Creating and Interpreting Images as Models
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Creating Images from Numbers
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Creating an El Niño Poster Model: Student Activity
Students will use coloring sheets to create a color coded model of El Niño. If the Data Literacy Map Cube is used with this, students should color their models first.

Creating an El Niño Model: Student Activity
Students will investigate the differences in sea surface height during an El Niño event by creating a model with gelatin, sherbet and whipped creme.
El Niño & Spread of Human Disease: 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.

Observing Sea Level: Student Activity
Learn how the JASON-2 satellite measures ocean heights for a variety of purposes including monitoring of El Niño.
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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

Exploring Energy and Matter with Chlorophyll Data: Student Activity
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Energy and Matter: Exploring Ocean Salinity
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Students will investigate the differences in sea surface height during an El Niño event by creating a model with gelatin, sherbet and whipped creme.
Teachers who are interested in receiving the answer key, please contact MND from your school email address at larc-mynasadata@mail.nasa.gov.
Learn how the JASON-2 satellite measures ocean heights for a variety of purposes including monitoring of El Niño.
Teachers, these mini lessons/student activities are perfect "warm up" tasks that can be used as a hook, bellringer, exit slip, etc.
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.
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.
This NASA visualization shows sea surface salinity observations (September 2011-September 2014). Students review the video and answer questions.