Students observe seasonal images of Monthly Leaf Area, looking for any changes that are occurring throughout the year.
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Students analyze a graph that illustrates the change in global surface temperature relative to 1951-1980 average temperatures.
Students will analyze a graph showing the amounts of peak energy received at local noon each day over the year changes with different latitudes.
This lesson contains a card sort activity that challenges students to predict relative albedo values of common surfaces.
Students develop and test a hypothesis about how albedo affects temperature.
Students analyze diagrams showing the effects of clouds on Earth’s Radiation and answer the questions that follow. This mini lesson is designed to help students analyze the interaction between clouds and Earth's incoming and outgoing energy.
Students connect day/night and seasonal cycles with albedo in the Arctic region.
This mini lesson focuses on the 2015-2016 El Niño event and how its weather conditions triggered regional disease outbreaks throughout the world. Students will review a NASA article and watch the associated video to use as a tool to compare with maps related to 2015-2016 rainfall and elevated disease risk, and answer the questions.
Students will analyze a graph showing the variation of energy imbalance on Earth over the year along different latitudinal zones and answer the questions that follow.
Students analyze surface air temperature anomalies to identify change with respect to different latitudes across the world.