Grade Level: 3-5,
6-8
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.
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.
To investigate the different rates of heating and cooling of certain materials on earth in order to understand the heating dynamics that take place in the Earth’s atmosphere.
Students review Earth System phenomena that are affected by soil moisture. They analyze and evaluate maps of seasonal global surface air temperature and soil moisture data from NASA satellites. Building from their observations, students will select a location in the U.S.