This activity invites students to model and observe the effect of melting ice sheets (from land) on sea level and the difference between the effect of melting sea-ice to that of melting land ice on sea level.
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The Earth System Satellite Images, along with the Data Literacy Cubes, helps the learner identify patterns in a specific image.
The Earth System Satellite, help the learner visualize how different Earth system variables change over time. In this lesson, students will graph six points for a location over one year.
Students will review the NASA Space Place video, "Tectonic Forces", and answer questions about tectonic plates.
Students observe the surface temperatures of a variety of surface types found in a suburban environment.
For over 20 years, satellite instruments have measured the sea surface height of our ever-changing oceans. This video of images shows the complicated patterns of rising and falling ocean levels across the globe from 1993 to 2015.
The fires in Greece during the summer of 2007 devastated large tracks of forest and ground cover in this Mediterranean region. Students analyze these data to determine the scale, area, and percentage of the forest impacted by of these fires.
Explore and connect to the GLOBE Water Cycle protocol bundle.
In this activity students will examine NASA data to determine the differences between a solar and lunar eclipse.
Learners will build a 2D model of the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) Spacecraft model.