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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExploring Meteorite Mysteries
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Our Solar System, Earth & Space Science, Chemistry, Earth's Resources and 2 additional..This educator guide provides information and activities related to meteorites and their origins. Topics include sources and coll...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Disintegrating Glacier
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Earth & Space Science, Ecology & Ecosystems, Chemistry and 3 additional..Recent satellite images have revealed two new icebergs floating off the Antarctic coast. The icy behemoths are fragments of the ...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhy Are Deserts Dry?
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Earth & Space Science, Chemistry, Earth's Resources and 2 additional..The deserts of the world today are not the deserts of the planet's past. Fossilized hippopotamus and elephant bones tell us that...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLidar Atmospheric Sensing Experiment (LASE)
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Technology, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Earth & Space ScienceThis document discusses the use of LIDAR (Laser Infrared Detection and Ranging) to detect and map water vapor in the atmosphere....Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMineral Resources On-Line Spatial Data
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Earth & Space Science, Education Materials, Geology & the Dynamic Earth, Chemistry and 5 additional..This site is provided by the Mineral Resources Program (MRP) of the U.S. Geologic Survey. It is an online geographic information...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDiscovery of the Solar System
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Nature & Method of Science, Chemistry, Earth's Resources and 2 additional..This page is part of NASA's website "From Stargazers to Starships". It discusses the evolution of scientific thought concerning ...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Vast Oceans
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Light, Sound & Other Waves, Earth & Space Science, Ecology & Ecosystems and 5 additional..This site provides background information about the relationship between ocean currents and surface winds. There are links to im...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe ABC's of Distances
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Chemistry, Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science, Science, PhysicsThis tutorial explains some of the techniques developed by astronomers to determine the distances of objects we see in the sky. ...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkClimate Diagnostics Center- U.S. Climate Division Plotting Page
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Earth & Space Science, Chemistry, Earth's Resources and 2 additional..This web page enables the user to plot a map of current or historic climate data for the United States using datasets provided b...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkVolcanoes on Venus
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Earth & Space Science, Geology & the Dynamic Earth, Chemistry and 3 additional..Visitors can read about the characteristics of volcanism on Venus and how it differs from volcanism on Earth. A map showing the ...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMicrogravity Demonstrator
Grades: 6 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Earth & Space Science, Experimentation and the Scientific Method, Chemistry, Earth's Resources and 2 additional..This tool was designed by NASA engineers to demonstrate and teach principles of microgravity and its relationship to science and...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSecond Guessing Mother Nature: Forecasting the Surprise Snow of January 2000
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Earth & Space Science, Chemistry, Earth's Resources and 2 additional..Kids up and down the East Coast woke up to a pleasant surprise on January 25, 2000 - several inches of fresh snow. Even though t...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat is the Big Bang Theory?
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Chemistry, Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science, Physics, ScienceAstronomer Jonathan Keohane explains and presents evidence for the Big Bang Theory in this "Ask a High Energy Astronomer" questi...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Artemis Project
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Chemistry, Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science, Science, PhysicsThe goal of this project is to establish a privately owned, permanent, self-supporting base on the Moon. Materials presented her...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWind-Driven Circulation and the Ekman Balance
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Ecology & Ecosystems, Chemistry, Earth's Resources and 2 additional..Materials presented here describe how the Ekman theory of wind-driven circulation in ocean basins was confirmed by measurements ...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkVolcanism on Mars
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Chemistry, Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science, Science, PhysicsVisitors can read about the characteristics of volcanism on Mars and how it differs from volcanism on our own Moon. A map is pro...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUnderstanding Our Environment
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Ecology & Ecosystems, Chemistry, Earth's Resources and 2 additional..This article explains how the TOPEX/Poseidon satellite has been used to measure changes in sea level due to heat storage in the ...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGlobal Water Reservoirs, Fluxes, and Turnover Times
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Earth & Space Science, Ecology & Ecosystems, Chemistry and 3 additional..This graphic illustration and accompanying text description show the distribution and relative proportions of water in the form ...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUF News: Antarctic Ice Sheet Unstable in Past Warming Periods
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Earth & Space Science, Chemistry, Earth's Resources and 2 additional..This news article examines evidence that parts of the Antarctic ice sheet have undergone episodes of instability that appear to ...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat is Gravity
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Force & Motion, Chemistry, Earth's Resources and 3 additional..This resource provides an explanation of gravity, the weakest of the four universal forces. Newton's Law of Universal Gravitatio...Views: 0Favorites: 0