modeling with students ahead of time. Students would benefit from activities on the water cycle in tandem with this lesson. Educators seeking to discuss climate change will need to find additional res ...

topic is rigorously covered if couched in the "All About Ice" curriculum for younger audiences, with multiple pages of a journal that the students fill out. This lesson is part of a unit, and best use ...

paint the picture. Visualization of large numbers and hard-to-imagine quantities is illustrated in this simulation. Opportunity to follow the math used to create the visualization is provided. The vis ...

what a running 5-year average means and why that is used on these graphs to illustrate trends in the data. Two graphs show the dramatic differences between latitudinal bands (the band between 23.6 to ...

by as water temperature can change drastically over time. However as long as this is addressed in the lesson (i.e. ask student how the sampling methods might be limited) the idea of sampling local sou ...

in the introduction) is poor. Though the applets are easy to follow, adjusting the parameters in the "Earth's Radiation Balance" applet can be difficult to get the right numbers, which may be frustrat ...

and satellite imagery to identify and analyze regions of coral bleaching. Students participate in making models, analyzing data, interpreting animations, and reading time-series graphs. High-quality b ...

visualizations to determine the start dates of actual California wildfires. Students participate in an activity that replicates how remote sensing techniques allow for enhanced observations of Earth. ...

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smoke from forest fires in Quebec, Canada, during July 2002 (red circles). The fires resulted in up to a 30-fold increase in the concentration of fine particles in the air in Baltimore, Maryland, a ci ...