Students analyze surface air temperature anomalies to identify change with respect to different latitudes across the world.
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Students observe the surface temperatures of a variety of surface types found in a suburban environment.
Students interpret a graph of surface temperatures taken from city districts and other types of communities.
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.
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.
This Lesson Plan provides some generic maps, graphs, and data tables for use with the Data Literacy Cubes. Because it is a differentiated resource, this Lesson Plan is appropriate for multiple grade bands.
In this NASA investigation, "What's Hot at the Mall," students examine how shopping malls change natural environments by examining thermal images gathered by NASA showing an area in Huntsville, Alabama.
Students explore positive feedback effects of changing albedo from melting Arctic sea ice.
In this mini lesson, students use in-water profiles of historical ocean data to analyze how sea surface salinity varies with depth.