This lesson walks students through the use of Landsat false-color imagery and identification of different land cover features using these as models.
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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.
Students examine satellite images of a recently formed island to identify areas of erosion and deposition.
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.
In this activity, students will learn about sea ice and land ice. They will observe ice melting on a solid surface near a body of water and ice melting in a body of water.
Use the AirNow.gov website to determine current air quality in US locations, as well as other information.
This activity is one of a series in the collection, The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change activities.