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The
purpose
of
this
activity
is
to
learn
about
visualizations
by
designing
and
drawing
one.
Students
draw
a
visualization
based
either
on
their
interests
and
ideas
about
the
world
or
based
on
actual
GLOBE
data.
They
are
asked
to
justify
the
design
choices
they
make
and
to
interpret
the
visualizations
of
their
peers.
Intended
outcomes
are
that
students
learn
to
identify
and
communicate
important
patterns
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Ocean
Planet's
six
lesson
plans
are
adapted
from
several
themes
in
the
Smithsonian
Institution
exhibition
created
to
share
with
the
public
what
recent
research
has
revealed
about
the
oceans
and
to
encourage
ocean
conservation.
"Sea
Secrets"
explores
ocean
geography;
"Sea
Connections"
looks
at
the
plants
and
animals
that
live
in
different
marine
ecosystems.
"Ocean
Market"
identifies
and
values
many
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This
site
covers
many
of
the
components
of
cloud
formation
and
cloud
types.
Although
written
for
the
high
school
level,
the
middle
school
student
could
grasp
most
of
the
concepts
with
the
assistance
from
the
teacher.
Specific
concepts
covered
include
the
importance
of
and
mechanisms
that
produce
rising
air,
cloud
types,
and
ptyes
of
precipitation.
There
are
nice
graphics
and
images
to
support
the
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Ships
travelling
between
Lake
Ontario
and
Lake
Erie
use
the
Welland
Canal.
Beginning
with
a
conversation
between
characters
Mathise,
Geo,
and
Trig,
they
explain
how
a
lock
in
the
canal
operates
by
gravity
alone,
without
pumps.
The
characters
use
mathematics
to
solve
problems
such
as
how
long
the
locks
take
to
fill
and
how
to
express
the
volume
and
flow
of
water
in
more
common
terms
(bathtubs
of
water
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This
site
contains
information
about
snow,
glaciers,
permafrost,
sea
ice
and
cryospheric
trends.
The
cryosphere
is
the
portion
of
the
Earth's
surface
where
water
is
in
a
solid
form,
usually
snow
or
ice.
Seasonal
snow
cover,
the
largest
component
of
the
cryosphere,
covers
up
to
33
percent
of
the
Earth's
total
land
surface.
Glaciers
and
ice
sheets
cover
about
10
percent
of
the
Earth's
land
area.
Nearly
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In this activity, students build an edible aquifer using ice cream, food coloring, and other ingredients to represent the various layers. They will learn about groundwater, water tables, confining layers, contamination, and recharge. A link to a glossary of groundwater terms is provided.
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This
lesson
plan
is
part
of
the
Center
for
Educational
Resources
(CERES),
a
series
of
web-based
astronomy
lessons
created
by
a
team
of
master
teachers,
university
faculty,
and
NASA
researchers.
Students
download
NASA
Hubble
Space
Telescope
(HST)
images
of
the
Martian
polar
ice
caps
from
different
times
to
measure
and
compare
the
changing
Martian
and
Earth
poles.
This
lesson
contains
expected
outcomes
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The
purpose
of
this
activity
is
to
observe
the
type
and
cover
of
clouds
including
contrails.
Students
observe
which
of
ten
types
of
clouds
and
how
many
of
three
types
of
contrails
are
visible
and
how
much
of
the
sky
is
covered
by
clouds
(other
than
contrails)
and
how
much
is
covered
by
contrails.
Intended
outcomes
are
that
students
learn
how
to
make
estimates
from
observations
and
how
to
categorize
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The
purpose
of
this
resource
is
to
continuously
measure
soil
and
air
temperature
at
one
site.
Students
install
four
temperature
probes;
three
are
placed
in
the
soil
at
three
different
depths
and
one
is
placed
in
an
instrument
shelter.
Students
use
a
data
logger
to
record
readings
from
the
probes
every
15
minutes.
Students
transfer
the
data
to
their
school
computers
for
analysis
and
submission
to
the
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The
purpose
of
this
activity
is
to
introduce
students
to
visualizations
as
a
tool
for
scientific
problem-solving,
using
elevation
and
temperature
as
an
example.
Students
color
in
visualizations
of
elevation
and
temperature
so
that
important
patterns
in
the
data
become
evident.
The
relationship
between
the
two
quantities
is
studied
by
using
them
to
compute
the
lapse
rate,
the
rate
at
which
temperature
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