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.
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Students model Earth's tectonic plate movement and explore the relationship between these movements and different types of volcanoes.
Review this page to learn about the background of volcanoes and their eruptions.
After learning about the different characteristics of satellite data, students will describe the advantages and disadvantages of using two different satellites to study the Urban Heat Island Effect.
Students are introduced to the Earthrise phenomenon by seeing the Earth as the Apollo 8 astronauts viewed our home planet for the first time from the Moon. They will analyze a time series of mapped plots of Earth science variables that NASA monitors to better understand the Earth
The Earth System Satellite Images, along with the Data Literacy Cubes, helps the learner identify patterns in a specific image.