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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkIce Sheets
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Physics, States of Matter (solids, liquids, gases), Chemistry and 2 additional..This educational brief describes the nature and properties of the Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets. Topics include the thickn...Views: 0Favorites: 0- Resource Type: Website / HyperLink
OMNIWeb: The Ionosphere and Solar Wind
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Physics, States of Matter (solids, liquids, gases), Chemistry and 3 additional..This educational brief provides an overview of the layers of the atmosphere, the effects of the solar wind upon them, and how th...Views: 0Favorites: 0 - Resource Type: Website / HyperLink
Solar Activity and the Earth
Grades: TK/K to 9Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Our Solar System, Physics, Chemistry and 4 additional..This educational brief provides an overview of the types of solar activity and their potential effects on Earth, along with brie...Views: 0Favorites: 0 - Resource Type: Website / HyperLink
Studying Solar Wind and Magnetosphere Interactions
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Physics, Chemistry, Science and 2 additional..This educational brief describes the structure of Earth's magnetosphere, how it interacts with energetic particles emitted by th...Views: 0Favorites: 0 - Resource Type: Website / HyperLink
Landsat 7: Remote Sensing Environmental Problems
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Earth & Space Science, Current Science, Physics, Life Sciences and 6 additional..This educational brief presents a discussion of how the Landsat project has been able to provide data on environmental changes a...Views: 0Favorites: 0 - Resource Type: Website / HyperLink
Visual Universe: Data Into Insight
Grades: 6 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Earth & Space Science, Our Solar System, Physics, Technology and 6 additional..This educational brief provides an overview of how scientists turn data, numbers, and words into pictures through the process of...Views: 0Favorites: 0 - Resource Type: Website / HyperLink
Where's Phyto? An Investigation of Phytoplankon in the Marine Biosphere
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Classification, Physics, Life Sciences and 5 additional..As part of this activity, students examine the effects of light and temperature on the phytoplankton population. Using ocean col...Views: 0Favorites: 0 - Resource Type: Website / HyperLink
Identifying Elements in the Stars
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: Science, Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources, Physics, ChemistryThis educational brief provides a description of the use of spectroscopy to identify elements in the stars, including a scientif...Views: 0Favorites: 0 - Resource Type: Website / HyperLink
ACE Mission - Fusion and Nucleosynthesis
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Physics, Life Sciences, Chemistry and 5 additional..This educational brief explains the idea that nuclear fusion is thought to be the mechanism by which virtually all of the elemen...Views: 0Favorites: 0 - Resource Type: Website / HyperLink
Solar Activity
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Our Solar System, Physics, Chemistry and 2 additional..This educational brief provides an overview of solar activity, including a description of Earth's magnetosphere and of various s...Views: 0Favorites: 0 - Resource Type: Website / HyperLink
Mars Topography
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Physics, Chemistry, Science and 3 additional..This educational brief discusses the advances in our knowledge of Mars topography brought about by the high-resolution map produ...Views: 0Favorites: 0 - Resource Type: Website / HyperLink
Mutiwavelength Milky Way: Application of the Electromagnetic Spectrum
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Light, Sound & Other Waves, Earth & Space Science, Physics, Technology and 4 additional..This educational brief provides an overview of how previously unrevealed information about our galaxy and other celestial object...Views: 0Favorites: 0 - Resource Type: Website / HyperLink
Cosmic Ray Clocks
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Physics, Chemistry, Science and 2 additional..This educational brief provides an overview of the concepts of radioactivity, basic particle physics, and the use of radioactive...Views: 0Favorites: 0 - Resource Type: Website / HyperLink
Solar Data on OMNIWeb
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Our Solar System, Physics, Chemistry and 2 additional..This science brief introduces OMNIWeb, an internet-based data retrieval and analysis interface for near-Earth solar and geomagne...Views: 0Favorites: 0 - Resource Type: Website / HyperLink
Solar Radiation and the Earth System
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Light, Sound & Other Waves, Earth & Space Science, Physics, Chemistry and 3 additional..This educational brief is designed to serve as a source of background information on solar radiation studies for teachers and as...Views: 0Favorites: 0 - Resource Type: Website / HyperLink
Geomagnetism in History
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Physics, Chemistry, Nature & Method of Science and 2 additional..This educational brief provides a summary of the historical development of our understanding of magnetism and magnetic fields, i...Views: 0Favorites: 0 - Resource Type: Website / HyperLink
Magnetosphere- Protector of the Earth
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Our Solar System, Physics, States of Matter (solids, liquids, gases) and 4 additional..In this activity, students will learn about the magnetosphere, the effects of solar activity, and the importance of the Earth's ...Views: 0Favorites: 0 - Resource Type: Website / HyperLink
GOES Knows: Thunderstorms
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Heat & Thermodynamics, Physics, States of Matter (solids, liquids, gases) and 8 additional..This activity will allow the student to look at real-time satellite, radar, and derived imagery to study the growth and developm...Views: 0Favorites: 0 - Resource Type: Website / HyperLink
When Volcanoes Blow Their Top
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Physics, Chemistry, Science and 4 additional..This lesson focuses on the effects of volcanic eruptions on atmospheric chemistry. Students will use the internet to acquire dat...Views: 0Favorites: 0 - Resource Type: Website / HyperLink
El Nino: The Weather Maker
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Physics, Chemistry, Science and 5 additional..This lesson focuses upon the scientific phenomenon of El Nino. Learners will also explore the possible link between human-induce...Views: 0Favorites: 0