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.
In this activity, you will use an inexpensive spectrophotometer* to test how light at different visible wavelengths (blue, green, red) is transmitted, or absorbed, through four different colored water samples.
Students analyze the relationship between sea surface height and ocean surface currents by graphing sea height using satellite data. Note: This lesson is modified from NASA's TOPEX/Poseidon lesson plan.
Students collect and analyze temperature data to explore what governs how much energy is reflected.