This graphic organizer may be used to help students analyze the processes and components of Earth System phenomena.
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Air, Water, Land, & Life: A Global Perspective
Students collect and analyze temperature data to explore what governs how much energy is reflected.
This lesson contains a card sort activity that challenges students to predict relative albedo values of common surfaces.
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 use albedo values of common surfaces along with photographic images of Earth taken from the International Space Station to make an argument about specific anthropogenic activities that impact Earth’s albedo.
Students review Earth System phenomena that are affected by soil moisture. They analyze and evaluate maps of seasonal global surface air temperature and soil moisture data from NASA satellites. Building from their observations, students will select a location in the U.S.
The Earth System Satellite Images, help the learner visualize how different Earth system variables change over time, establish cause and effect relationships for a specific variable, identify patterns, and determine relationships among variables over one year.