This lesson walks students through the use of Landsat false-color imagery and identification of different land cover features using these as models.
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Grade Level: 6-8,
9-12
Grade Level: 6-8,
9-12
Students evaluate graphs and images of sea ice and relate them to changes in albedo. Students make a claim about the interaction of albedo and sea ice extent.
Grade Level: 6-8
This USGS activity leads students to an understanding of what remote sensing means and how researchers use it to study changes to the Earth’s surface, such as deforestation.
Grade Level: 6-8,
9-12
Students model Earth's tectonic plate movement and explore the relationship between these movements and different types of volcanoes.
Grade Level: 6-8,
9-12
Students explore positive feedback effects of changing albedo from melting Arctic sea ice.
Grade Level: 6-8,
9-12
Students analyze map visualizations representing the amount of Sun’s energy received on the Earth as indicated by the amount that is reflected back to space, known as “albedo”.