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.
Grade Level: 3-5,
6-8
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.
This USGS activity leads students to an understanding of what remote sensing means and how researchers use it to study changes to the Earth’s surface, such as deforestation.
Use the AirNow.gov website to determine current air quality in US locations, as well as other information.
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.
In this NASA-JPL lesson, students create a model of a volcano, produce and record lava flows, and interpret geologic history through volcano formation and excavation.