This lithograph shows images from NASA?s Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus instrument of the Boulder, Virgin, and Gregg basins that comprise the southern portion of Lake Meade. About 96% of the water in Lake Mead is from melted snow that falls in Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Wyoming. During the period from May 2000 to April 2003 severe drought occurred in the western states, and Colorado ... Full description.

This tutorial provides detailed information about how clouds receive their names and the importance of root words. It was designed to help students make accurate observations for the Students' Cloud Observations On-Line (S'COOL) project. Students will also learn to associate different clouds into height groupings. Information is provided about the cloud types and on how to distinguish similar clouds ... Full description.

This full-color identification chart is intended as a basic guide to observing contrails for scientific investigations being conducted by NASA scientists. It is translated into several languages and is designed help to motivate students throughout the world to become involved with a real-time collaborative scientific experiment. Full description.

This lesson is designed to help students gain knowledge in accessing current weather data and in using the MY NASA DATA Live Access Server (LAS) to specify and download historical satellite data. Students then use the data to examine the relationship between altitude, atmospheric pressure, temperature and humidity at a particular location. In this lesson, weather data from ground-based and satellite ... Full description.

: In this activity, users download and graph modeled climate data to explore variability in climate change. Most people know that climate changes are predicted over the next hundred years, but they may not be aware that these changes are likely to vary from region to region. Using data from the University of New Hampshire?s Earth Science Information Partner, a digital library of Earth Science data, ... Full description.

This lesson plan aims to understand how Christopher Columbus made journeys across the Atlantic Ocean by examining wind patterns and data. Full description.

This activity guide explores the potential for global climate change to increase the frequency and intensity of hurricanes and storm surges, and the impacts that could result. Designed to teach through scientific inquiry, the activity seeks to stimulate thought about the long-term impact of a warmer planet. The activity responds to national education standards in the English language arts, geography, ... Full description.

This resource aims to help elementary and secondary teachers find and use Earth science data and information on the Internet. The content is arranged by science topic. Each topic has a preview page that summarizes the material, as well as 2 to 5 detail pages, which show where to access online data and what the data mean. Over 40 hands-on activities are available at the site on the following science ... Full description.

This brochure gives a brief description of the science research that is being done with data from the Clouds and Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) instrument flying onboard NASA's Terra satellite. It also contains information about some of the data products and technical specifications. Full description.

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 ... Full description.