This lesson contains a card sort activity that challenges students to predict relative albedo values of common surfaces.
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Grade Level: 6-8,
9-12
Grade Level: 9-12
Students connect day/night and seasonal cycles with albedo in the Arctic region.
Grade Level: 9-12
Students review a video showing a global view of the top-of-atmosphere shortwave radiation from January 26 and 27, 2012 and answer the questions that follow.
Grade Level: 6-8,
9-12
By investigating the data presented in a model that displays extreme summer air temperatures, students explain energy transfer in the Earth system and consider the impact of excessive heat on local communities.
Grade Level: 6-8
Scientific data are often represented by assigning ranges of numbers to specific colors. The colors are then used to make false color images which allow us to see patterns more easily. Students will make a false-color image using a set of numbers.