In this activity, students explore three indicators of drought are: soil moisture, lack of precipitation, and decreased streamflows. Students investigate each of these parameters develop a sense for the effects of drought on land.
Educational Resources - Search Tool
The purpose of this activity is for students to create a desktop soil profile based on the biome region of the United States where your school is located.
Students model Earth's tectonic plate movement and explore the relationship between these movements and different types of volcanoes.
Students examine satellite images of a recently formed island to identify areas of erosion and deposition.
This mini lesson has students explore three visualizations to see the new benchmark map scientists can use to study the extent and speed of changes to the largest ice sheet in the world.
In this story map students will learn about what air pollution is, its environmental impact, the standards used to describe air quality as defined by the Clean Air Act, and the Earth System interactions that drive the transport of air pollution.