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NASA visualizers take data – numbers, codes – and turn them into animations people can see and quickly understand.
This graphic organizer may be used to help students analyze the processes and components of Earth System phenomena.
Air, Water, Land, & Life: A Global Perspective
The Earth System Satellite Images, along with the Data Literacy Cubes, helps the learner identify patterns in a specific image.
Students develop and test a hypothesis about how albedo affects temperature.
This lesson walks students through the use of Landsat false-color imagery and identification of different land cover features using these as models.
Students evaluate graphs and images of sea ice and relate them to changes in albedo. Students make a claim about the interaction of albedo and sea ice extent.
Students will analyze and interpret maps of the average net atmospheric radiation to compare the flow of energy from the Sun toward Earth in different months and for cloudy versus clear days. Students will draw conclusions and support them with evidence.
This activity is one of a series in the collection, The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change activities.