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

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

In this product, students engage in processes/activities for collaboration and communication strategies. Students compare risks of courses of action confronting NASA's Deep Impact mission team. Students investigate information necessary to support arguments, quantitative risk analyses, debate, role play, persuasive writing/communication skills and group decision making procedures. This activity has ... Full description.

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 River runoff was far below normal. The effect is a drop in lake levels that is visible from NASA satellites. This lithograph shows images from NASA-s Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper ... 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.

This CD contains material for a series of live interactive Internet events during the 1999-2000 field seasons of the National Geographic Society's Sustainable Seas Expeditions. The three curriculum units on this CD feature clips, Web chat Q and A, labs, activities, and related resources materials. The units have also been mapped to National Science Education Standards, California, Texas, and Florida ... 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.

This 30-page guide features 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 colorful book of maps, charts and deep sea ... Full description.

Much of Earth is illuminated at night by city lights. This poster shows a global view of Earth at night, compiled from over 400 satellite images collected during the nighttime phase of the orbit. Includes elementary-secondary activities on the poster backside from Mission Geography (http://missiongeography.org/). Full description.