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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDesertification
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Physics, Ecology & Ecosystems, Life Sciences and 4 additional..Desertification, the degradation of formerly productive land into desert, is a complex process. It involves multiple causes, and...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEarth Observatory: From the Dust Bowl to the Sahel
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Physics, Life Sciences, Ecology & Ecosystems and 4 additional..This site provides a brief description of the Dustbowl in the American Great Plains during the 1930s and relates its effects to ...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGreat Images in NASA: Planetary Astronomy
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Physics, Science, Earth & Space Science, Chemistry, Earth's ResourcesThis site consists of JPEG images of the planets, including photographs of Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, historic photographs, and arti...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGoddard Space Flight Center: Science Question of the Week
Grades: 6 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Physics, Our Solar System, Science, Earth & Space Science and 2 additional..Selected science questions are posted here and answered at the end of the week. Previous questions of the week and their answers...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSun Earth Connection Education Forum: Reference Desk
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Technology, Physics, Science, Environmental Issues and 4 additional..This page links to several sites with reference materials covering such topics as solar storms and flares, the magnetosphere, an...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: DocumentMercury
Grades: 6 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Physics, Science, Earth & Space Science, Chemistry, Earth's ResourcesThis lithograph shows mosaic images of Mercury, captured by the Mariner 10 spacecraft. The images are accompanied by a brief des...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHistory of Manned Spaceflight (title provided or enhanced by cataloger)
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Nature & Method of Science, Physics, Human Space Exploration, Our Solar System and 4 additional..This website, produced by the Kennedy Space Center, provides histories of NASA's manned space missions, beginning with the first...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGEOTAIL Spacecraft Homepage
Grades: 6 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Physics, Science, Earth & Space Science, Chemistry, Earth's ResourcesUsers can learn about the GEOTAIL spacecraft and its mission to study the Earth's magnetotail. Materials presented include an ov...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAsk Dr. Global Change
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Physics, Ecology & Ecosystems, Science and 3 additional..Users of this resource may direct questions about global change to staff members at the U.S. Global Change Research Information ...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLevel 3 Standard Mapped Images
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Physics, Ecology & Ecosystems, Life Sciences and 4 additional..This archive of ocean-color imagery produced by SeaWiFS and Aqua-MODIS contains images from 2002 to the present. The images are ...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Exploratorium: Revealing Bodies
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Nature & Method of Science, Life Sciences, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Science and 3 additional..This museum exhibit allows visitors to examine how medical imagery has changed the way we look at our bodies. Exhibits include m...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGalileo k-12 Educator's Resources
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Technology, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Physics, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis and 4 additional..The Galileo educator site offers educators and students interesting facts about NASA's Galileo mission to Jupiter and Europa, an...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkClouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Nature & Method of Science, Physics, Ecology & Ecosystems and 6 additional..The Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) instrument is one of five instruments that will be flown aboard the Tro...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSearching for Atlantic Rhythms: Winter Weather and the North Atlantic Oscillation
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Physics, Ecology & Ecosystems, Science and 3 additional..Much like El Nino, the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) varies in a rhythmic pattern from decade to decade. The NAO is the relat...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: ImageHurricane Tracking Chart
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Physics, Making & Reading Maps, Science and 3 additional..Students can use this map to track the progress of hurricanes and tropical storms in the western Atlantic Ocean and Carribean Se...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkVisit to an Ocean Planet - Timing the Tides
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Physics, Ecology & Ecosystems, Science, Earth & Space Science and 2 additional..Tide tables, commonly seen in newspapers and on television in coastal areas, show that comparable local high and low tides occur...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGlobal Seafloor Topography from Satellite Altimetry
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Physics, Ecology & Ecosystems, Geography, History-Social Science and 4 additional..This site offers links to maps, posters, globes, and CD-ROMS showing seafloor topography, gravity anomalies, and bathymetry. The...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat Is A Desert?
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Physics, Ecology & Ecosystems, Science and 3 additional..Approximately one-third of the Earth's land surface is desert, arid land with meager rainfall that supports only sparse vegetati...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkNASA Visualization of Remote Sensing Data
Grades: 6 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Physics, Science, Earth & Space Science, Chemistry, Earth's ResourcesThis collection of visualizations produced by the NASA Laboratory for Atmospheres includes still images, movies, and 3D/VR image...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBringing Images from Space to Earth
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Physics, Science, Earth & Space Science, Chemistry, Earth's ResourcesThis tutorial explains how satellite images are taken, transmitted to Earth, and converted into viewable form. Descriptions of e...Views: 0Favorites: 0