Students connect day/night and seasonal cycles with albedo in the Arctic region. 

This lesson contains a card sort activity that challenges students to predict relative albedo values of common surfaces. 

This mini lesson focuses on the 2015-2016 El Niño event and how its weather conditions triggered regional disease outbreaks throughout the world. Students will review a NASA article and watch the associated video to use as a tool to compare with maps related to 2015-2016 rainfall and elevated disease risk, and answer the questions.