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DIY Podcast Tutorial
A six-video series shows how to use the DIY Podcast site and NASA's free resources to create video and audio podcast files with students.
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Our Solar System Lithograph Set
Print images and read facts about the solar system. Lithographs feature images from NASA missions or illustrations of objects in the solar system.
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Air and Water Module
Students learn about chemical cycles (carbon dioxide, oxygen, water) in ecosystems and the need for protecting water supplies and clean air.
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To Plant or Not to Plant? →
Travel with Bill to each of the world's biomes to help him study plant specimens. Your mission is to plant each specimen in the best possible biome.
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Tracking Ocean Ecology →
Students use NASA data to evaluate changes in the amount of the ocean's chlorophyll-a and draw conclusions about how changes may affect the ecology.
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Mission: Biomes →
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to investigate biomes, then test your knowledge about the biomes by completing each mission.
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Investigating the Climate System -- Precipitation
This problem-based learning module explores the study of rainfall.
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ISS EarthKAM Erosion Challenge →
Take part in the April 2013 ISS EarthKAM mission and enter the ISS EarthKAM Erosion Challenge. Winning schools will talk live with an astronaut!
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Meteorology Educator Guide
The activities in this guide ask students to build and/or test a variety of weather instruments to better understand weather phenomena.
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Science Process Skills Lesson Plans →
Access MY NASA DATA lesson plans related to the science process skills.
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The Reason for the Seasons →
Students will learn about the reason for the seasons by analyzing graphs of surface radiation and mean surface temperature.
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Cold, Clouds and Snowflakes →
Use NASA data to determine where wintry precipitation occurred and use snowflake and temperature data to decide the likely shapes of the crystals.
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Earth Science Posters →
Each poster from the Earth Observing System project explains what scientists are doing to understand air, water, land and ice. Download the posters.
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STEM on Station Digital Learning Event
Videoconference with NASA to show students that it takes science, technology, engineering and mathematics to run the International Space Station.
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Vegetable Light Curves →
Students observe a rotating potato to understand how astronomers can determine the shape of asteroids from variations in reflective brightness.
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Winter's Story
How can falling snow, snow storms, snowpacks and ice cores help us to understand weather, climate and climate change?
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Moon Power -- Energy and Power
Ten 5E lessons help students learn that energy and power are needed for work. People must choose energy sources that do not negatively affect Earth.
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Throw a LandSat Launch Party! →
Landsat's 40-year legacy continues on Feb.11, 2013, with the next mission. Plan a party with these resources and watch the launch on NASA TV.
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Fuel Efficiency
Students graph variations in thrust/drag of an airplane when tail sections are removed. Using the graph, they draw conclusions about fuel efficiency.
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Earth's Energy Budget Poster
The poster includes activities that show how Earth's energy budget should be balanced, just like a family's financial budget.