features collections of dozens of animations for teaching geoscience topics -- atmosphere, biosphere, climate, earth's surface, energy and material cycles, geology, human dimensions, hydrosphere and cryosphere, hydrology, ocean, solar system, solid earth, earth history, and more. Learn what makes an effective visualization and best practices for using visualizations in the classroom.
provides more than 75 earth science investigations. Each presents photos and text (and sometimes video) that help students understand key earth science concepts. Among the topics: earth's layers, rocks, volcanoes and plate tectonics, earthquakes and mountains, surface and ground water, wind and currents, atmosphere and weather, climate change, oceans, our moon and solar system, and earth's history.
provides visualizations and stories of recent developments in earth science, climate change, biodiversity, human biology, evolution, and astrophysics. See visualizations for learning about sea ice changes, coral reefs, desertification in Africa, origins of our moon, Mars, invasive species, undomesticated horses, human imagination, our genes and geography, cancer's evolutionary tree, facial expressions, a "wiring diagram" of the brain, human longevity, and more.
provides curriculum guides for using real scientific data to investigate earth processes. Each guide focuses on a topic (sea level, water quality, and El El Niño) and starts with a question: How are sea levels monitored and measured? How is water quality monitored? How does El Niño really work?
Delve into the myths and learn about research used to understand the ultimate weather machine.provides more than 75 earth science investigations. Each presents photos and text (and sometimes video) that help students understand key earth science concepts. Among the topics: earth's layers, rocks, volcanoes and plate tectonics, earthquakes and mountains, surface and ground water, wind and currents, atmosphere and weather, climate change, oceans, our moon and solar system, and earth's history.
features over 100 animations and images that illuminate key concepts in earth science. Examples are: coal formation, nuclear fission, growth of a continent, tectonic plate movement, volcanoes and earthquakes, fault motion, geyser eruption, wave motion, tornadoes, hurricanes, and more. Students can observe a single place on earth from multiple views, 3-D models of water and common molecules, different climate zones, and seasonal changes in the amount of sunlight reaching locations on earth.
Learn about the discovery that less sunlight has been reaching Earth and find out the potential impact that the phenomenon behind this -- known as global dimming -- may have on climate worldwide.
Join meteorologists as they chase supertwisters to try to solve the puzzle of how these killer storms spawn and where they are likely to strike.
offers resources for the first 2 years of college chemistry. Topics include global warming, ozone, fats in our diet, computer chip thermochemistry, making water safe to drink, what's in a star, acid rain, reducing air pollution from automobiles, copper, and building a better CD player (getting light out of a solid).
Follow researchers as they seek answers to questions about how lightning propagates.
All climate change classroom lessons are located athttp://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/ClimChg_lessons.html. Examples include:
- Coral Bleaching in the Caribbean
- Ocean Currents and Sea Surface Temperature
- Investigating Factors that Influence Climate
- Studying Snow and Ice Changes
- Tropical Atlantic Aerosols
- Hurricanes As Heat Engines
- El Niño