This trifold brochure explains the MY NASA DATA project for K-12 educators and citizen scientists. The brochure covers topics such as What is a microset? What kind of microsets are available? Sample Graphs. Educational Resources and Standards. How can I get help? and What is Required? It also provides contact information and guidelines on the various ways to participate in the MY NASA DATA community. ... Full description.

This storybook for children tells the story of the Sun, its relationship to Earth and to stars. The easy-to-understand text and graphics make it a useful classroom tool for younger students. Full description.

This product provides an introduction to understanding and interpreting satellite images. Beginning with two short chapters on visible satellite images and radiation, the book then covers six key Earth-atmosphere variables on topics including the Antarctic ozone hole, El Nino, deforestation, the missing carbon dilemma, and the effects of sea ice, snow cover and volcanoes on atmospheric temperatures. ... Full description.

This full disk view photograph of the Earth was taken by the crew of Apollo 17 just hours after liftoff in December 1972, when they found themselves aligned with Earth and the Sun. Apollo 17 was the final mission to the moon and the first human spaceflight launch made at night. Full description.

Interactive game features two skill levels (novice and intermediate) that teach about water quality, watersheds, and management of this important resource. The intermediate level game is broken into four sections: National Parks, agriculture, neighborhood, and city, each with five questions. At the end of the quiz, the best choices for each question are explained. Full description.

This page is part of a larger USGS project called Water Science for Schools. This section covers different water-use topics and categories of water-use. A Spanish translation is available. Full description.

Visitors can access general information on the greenhouse effect, how it works, and what impact human-produced emissions are having on the global climate. Materials presented here include discussions of the potential impacts of climate change, actions being taken to mitigate the effects, news articles and publications, tools for estimating emissions and calculating the benefits of reduction strategies, ... Full description.

The Ocean World site has a wide variety of information regarding the ocean. Established by Texas A and M University's Jason Project, Ocean World provides a wealth of information on weather, forams, icebergs, fisheries, coral reefs, waves, El Nino, currents and more. The site contains information for both students and teachers. The teacher section of the site contains background information on all ... Full description.

This site provides an overview of the earth's atmospheric greenhouse effect by briefly exploring the atmospheres of nearby planets and discussing the greenhouse gases of our atmosphere. Information at this site helps students to understand that the greenhouse effect is what makes this planet suitable for life as we know it and that the earth's atmosphere contains trace gases, water vapor, carbon dioxide, ... Full description.

Wilson Alwyn Bentley (1865-1931), famous for his photomicrographs of snow crystals, prepared sets of glass lantern slides of dew, frost and ice crystals. Many of these sets found their way to colleges and universities around the United States. The University of Wisconsin's Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences donated their collection to the Schwerdtfeger Library in 2000. Shortly after, the ... Full description.