Students collect and analyze temperature data to explore what governs how much energy is reflected.
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Students will describe the changes in a newly-formed volcanic island over the first three years of its life.
The Earth System Satellite Images help students observe and analyze global Earth and environmental data, understand the relationship among different environmental variables, and explore how the data change seasonally and over longer timescales.
Watch NASA videos about aerosols and volcanic ash.
Learn about volcanic ash and watch a visualization of the Calbuco volcano to see how ash travels around the world.
Compare images from two volcanic eruptions in the Kuril Islands which occurred ten years apart and complete a graphic organizer for impacts on different Earth spheres.
Students will review the NASA Space Place video, "Tectonic Forces", and answer questions about tectonic plates.
Students examine satellite images of a recently formed island to identify areas of erosion and deposition.
Compare pictures of different volcanoes. Then visit NASA's Space Place to learn about volcanoes and answer questions about volcanic eruptions.
In this activity, students explore the Urban Heat Island Effect phenomenon by collecting temperatures of different materials with respect to their locations. This activity was modified from The NASA PUMAS Collection's "What makes