This activity was developed by NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) team as an introductory experience to a series of lessons about water resources on Earth.
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Students will analyze the monthly seasonal chlorophyll concentration images in our global oceans for the four different months of 2017, and then answer the following questions.
Students collect and analyze temperature data to explore what governs how much energy is reflected.
Students will examine how radiation, conduction, and convection work together as a part of Earth’s Energy Budget to heat the atmosphere.
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 examine satellite images of a recently formed island to identify areas of erosion and deposition.
Students develop and test a hypothesis about how albedo affects temperature.
This activity is one of a series in the collection, The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change activities.
Students will investigate the role of clouds and their contribution (if any) to global warming. Working in cooperative groups, students will make a claim about the future role clouds will play in Earth’s Energy Budget if temperatures continue to increase.
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.