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.
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This activity will help students better understand and practice estimating percent cloud cover.
Explore the energy and matter cycles found within the Earth System.
In this activity, students use satellite images from the NASA Landsat team to quantify changes in glacier cover over time from 1986 to 2018.
This activity is one of a series in the collection, The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change activities.
In this mini lesson, students analyze a bar graph showing the relative forcings from natural and human factors that affect Earth's climate. They use information from this graph to assess the relative importance of these factors.
This Lesson Plan provides some generic maps, graphs, and data tables for use with the Data Literacy Cube. Because this is a differentiated resource, it is appropriate for multiple grade bands.
Students will analyze a pie chart (circle graph) showing the distribution of different parts of the Earth system's absorption and reflection of energy.
Learn about what a solar scientist does and see if you have any skills in common.
Exploring the Sun with Solar Orbiter
Watch a conversation about the Solar Orbiter mission with NASA scientist Dr. Teresa Nieves-Chinchilla. This 17-minute video was recorded as part of the Museum of the North's Virtual Family Day series. In the video, Dr. Nieves-Chinchilla talks about how and why NASA studies the Sun.
Exploring the Sun with Solar Orbiter | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYlbbjwDtWI | Credit: Museum of the North's Virtual Family Day Series.