Earth Now Monthly Climate Digest

Notes from our reviewers

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• Teaching Tips
  Bulletin provides good visualizations that could be returned to on a regular basis for updates as some data will, of course, carry over from one month to the next. Educator could present this to watch as a class or as homework to introduce ideas. As several months are generally available, students could be asked to highlight comparisons or variations between the months. Bulletins could also be followed throughout a year to see how events shift over time, allowing predictions by students or narrator/NOAA (such as in the case of ENSO) to be tested.
• About the Science
  The bulletin is updated monthly with data on world weather and climate events of the previous month. Several timely weather and climate feature stories have also been produced to assist SOS (Science on a Sphere) facilitators making connections between current events and global change.
• About the Pedagogy
  A narrator explains what each globe represents and how to understand the visual data. The narration of these visualizations provides excellent auditory scaffolding. Lesson plans and educator support is not provided, but there are ample of additional resources, links, etc. available.
• Technical Details/Ease of Use
  Internet connection required. Website and information are of high quality and easy to access.