The purpose of this activity is for students to create a desktop soil profile based on the biome region of the United States where your school is located.

Students observe the surface temperatures of a variety of surface types found in a suburban environment.

Students analyze Landsat images of Atlanta, Georgia to explore the relationship between surface temperature and vegetation.

Students examine the two time series images to determine the differences between seasonal ice melt over water versus land.

In this activity, you will use an inexpensive spectrophotometer* to test how light at different visible wavelengths (blue, green, red) is transmitted, or absorbed, through four different colored water samples.