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This book cover relates the role the Great Dismal Swamp, NC, plays in the food chain.
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This
30-page
guide
includes
classroom
activities
that
feature
content
taken
from
National
Geographics'
Atlas
of
the
Ocean:
The
Deep
Frontier.
Each
activity
in
the
guide
takes
the
student
on
an
underwater
adventure
exploring
our
oceans.
Subjects
include
undersea
hot
spots,
underwater
archaeology,
bioluminescence,
coral
reefs,
and
polar
sea
exploration.
This
book
of
maps,
charts
and
deep
sea
images
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This poster shows a global view of Earth at night, compiled from over 400 satellite images collected during the nighttime phase of the orbit. Much of Earth is illuminated at night by city lights. The poster includes elementary-secondary activities on the backside from Mission Geography (http:/
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This
resource
allows
users
to
increase
their
understanding
of
Earth
system
science
and
the
effects
humans
have
on
the
global
environment.
The
mosaics
were
developed
primarily
from
data
collected
by
the
Landsat
4
and
Landsat
5
satellites.
This
historical
imagery
is
a
record
of
the
conditions
on
Earth
around
the
year
1990.
The
CD
was
developed
by
NASA
Stennis
Space
Center
and
the
US
Geological
Survey.
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This
Web
site
contains
information
for
both
partners
(those
with
their
own
telescopes)
and
associates
(those
who
wish
to
use
a
network
telescope.)
The
purpose
of
the
Global
Telescope
Network
(GTN)
is
to
use
small
telescopes
to
obtain
ground-based
observations
of
high-energy
objects
of
interest
to
Swift,
GLAST
(renamed
Fermi
in
2008)
and
XMM-Newton
missions.
It
is
used
both
by
formal
educators
working
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In
this
chapter,
users
take
the
role
of
students
from
a
small
town
in
Colorado,
who
team
up
with
students
from
the
town
of
Churchill,
Manitoba,
to
explore
changing
sea
ice
conditions
in
the
Arctic.
Together
they
examine
an
animation
that
shows
30
years
of
satellite
images
to
see
how
the
extent
of
sea
ice
in
the
Arctic
has
diminished
over
time.
The
chapter
storyline
is
built
around
the
real-life
case
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In
this
chapter,
using
My
World
GIS,
users
explore
data
that
characterize
the
dynamic
Greenland
Ice
Sheet.
By
examining
photographs,
map
views,
and
tabular
data,
users
gain
an
understanding
of
how
and
why
scientists
are
monitoring
the
ice
sheet
and
what
they
are
finding.
Users
explore
map
layers
that
represent
ice
sheet
thickness,
weather
station
locations,
and
annual
melt
extents
of
the
ice
sheet.
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In
this
chapter,
users
explore
relationships
between
air
quality
and
population
density
using
the
image
visualization
tool,
Google
Earth.
Humans
discovered
long
ago
that
burning
fossil
fuels
was
a
convenient
way
to
get
power.
In
engines
for
automobiles
and
plants
that
generate
electricity,
huge
volumes
of
oil,
gas,
and
coal
are
burned
every
day.
Where
many
people
live
together
in
concentrated
areas,
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This
set
of
lithographs
from
the
ISS
EarthKAM
program
contains
an
educators'
guide,
student
information
and
worksheets,
and
several
Earth
photos
taken
from
the
Space
Shuttle.
Shuttle
astronauts
and
the
ISS
EarthKAM
program
provide
photos
of
our
planet
from
the
unique
perspective
of
Earth
orbit.
This
resource
can
enhance
students'
studies
of
Earth
and
space
science,
geography,
social
studies,
mathematics,
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This poster features remote-sensing images from NASA's Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor (SeaWiFS). The teaching supplement augments the poster with descriptive summaries of the variety of geophysical phenomena that can be seen in each image. The supplement also includes a glossary of terms and a listing of URLs for additional information.
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