This bookmark on natural and human impacts on climate includes a Web address for additional information and resources. Full description.

Dancing Lights provides a set of five activities and supporting teacher material that allows students in Grades 3 through 5 to explore the beauty, science and mythology of the aurora creatively through art and writing. This standards-based, flexible ?plug and play? program is based on the latest research in brining science into the literacy and art classroom. It can be used as a complete sequence ... Full description.

This bookmark on biomass burning includes a Web address for additional information and resources. Full description.

This chapter describes how to set a scale and measure distances and areas on satellite images. Using ImageJ, a freely available image analysis program that runs on most operating systems, users set the spatial calibration of image, then select and measure distances and areas on the image. The measurement results are reported in real-world units. The technique is most useful and accurate for nadir ... Full description.

Space photographs and satellite images illustrate how both nature and people have changed Earth and not always for the better. This material includes a slide set (25 slides) and script that focuses on many of the conditions that affect Earth's crust, waters, and atmosphere. The majority of the images are from the Space Shuttle, with a few Landsat images. Produced by the Smithsonian Institution and ... Full description.

This resource consists of an interdisciplinary unit using remote-sensing techniques and data (Landsat, aerial photos, and MultiSpec image processing software) to investigate urban sprawl and its consequences in the Washington, D.C. region. The unit design can be customized to suit other problems besides urban growth using the same techniques. The lessons can be implemented in only the science classroom ... Full description.

Using the US Digital Landsat Mosaics, we can increase our 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 as they orbited the Earth ten or more years ago. This historical imagery is a valuable record of the conditions on Earth around the year 1990. The CD ... Full description.

This site provides a number of Landsat 7 scene subsets as LAN files that are intended for use with Purdue University's MultiSpec software. Users also have the option of downloading the Landsat images as TIFF files in four different band combinations. Links are included to download Multi-Spec, a MultiSpec tutorial, and an introduction to remote-sensing PowerPoint presentation with detailed notes. Full description.

ChemMatters is a quarterly publication of the American Chemical Society (ACS) geared to a high school audience and designed to demystify everyday chemistry. This special edition is the fourth in a series focused on atmospheric chemistry and NASA-s Aura mission. It includes feature articles on how Aura came together as a mission from its beginnings to the present; the nature of chemical equilibrium, ... Full description.

In this adventure, middle-school students are hired to determine if the size of the Antarctic ozone hole is increasing. They set sail on the Research Vessel Glomar, this time in Antarctica, where they embark on their own investigation following the scientific method by testing a given hypothesis. To assist them, satellite images of ozone concentration and instructional movies are located onboard the ... Full description.