This demonstration introduces the concept of water phases and cycling to younger students through observation, drawing, and writing. They will be able to explain how the Earth's water supply is recycled, form a hypothesis as to how/why the water cycle works, and use writing and drawing to explain how the cycle works. Full description.

This interactive game lets younger students practice indentification of planets, nebulae, galaxies, and other astronomical objects. Astronomer Michael Shara of the American Museum of Natural History introduces the feature, which consists of eight images of objects that must be matched with their written descriptions. There is also a link to additional space images at NASA's 'Astronomy Picture of the ... Full description.

This Classroom Connectors lesson plan teaches young students about condensation, evaporation and the water cycle. The site provides goals, objectives, an outline, time required, materials, activities, and closure ideas for the lesson. The Classroom Connectors address content with an activity approach while incorporating themes necessary to raise the activity to a higher cognition level. The major ... Full description.

This Classroom Connectors lesson plan discusses rock formation. This includes igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks and the process of the rock cycle. The site provides goals, objectives, an outline, time required, materials, activities, and closure ideas for the lesson. The Classroom Connectors address content with an activity approach while incorporating themes necessary to raise the activity ... Full description.

This Classroom Connectors lesson plan discusses precipitation, clouds, condensation and evaporation. It covers the water cycle and the relationship of clouds to rain and snow. The site provides goals, objectives, an outline, time required, materials, activities, and closure ideas for the lesson. The Classroom Connectors address content with an activity approach while incorporating themes necessary ... Full description.

This Classroom Connectors lesson plan discusses the factors which cause changes to the surface of the Earth. This includes identifying various types of landforms, geologic structures and movements, processes that form rocks, and understanding rock and soil cycles. The site provides goals, objectives, an outline, time required, materials, activities, and closure ideas for the lesson. The Classroom ... Full description.

These activities are designed to stimulate student interest in the study of space science. After covering information on the solar system, students will do a reinforcement activity having to do with the inner and outer planets. Likewise, after covering information on different stars and basic constellations and asterisms (parts of larger constellations), students will do the listed activities to reinforce ... Full description.

In this lesson, learners use a Web-based version of ImageJ to examine images of Hurricane Katrina as it moved through the Gulf of Mexico in August 2005. Students explore infrared radiation, water vapor, and visible radiation, and use images captured by the NOAA GOES satellite to plot and measure the path of Katrina. Full description.

In this lesson, learners compare snow and ice cover in the Northern Hemisphere over a period of two years. The images are obtained from measurements of visible and microwave radiation taken by satellites and sent back to Earth and are analyzed with a customized version of ImageJ running as an applet within a browser. Full description.

This resource guides younger students in studying the night sky and looking for constellations and individual stars. Topics include distinguishing stars from other bright objects in the sky, how to keep a sky journal detailing observations, do's and don't's for going out at night to make observations, and some suggestions on what to look for. Full description.