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- 9th - Higher Ed
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Students use satellite images to analyze development patterns within Baltimore City. They prepare a land cover map for Baltimore indicating the prevalence of impervious surfaces and explore how these patterns affect water pollution. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students use the scientific process to examine how when various surfaces are exposed to similar environmental conditions, surface temperatures may vary. They conduct an experiment to show the relationship between surface and surrounding air temperatures. Full Review »
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- 8th - 9th
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Students use the scientific process to show that when various surfaces are exposed to similar environmental conditions, surface temperatures may vary. They examine the "urban heat island" phenomenon and analyze why it increases energy consumption. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine the environmental health concerns related to paved surfaces. They read and discuss an article, identify problems with paved surfaces, and calculate the volume of water that can be collected from the roof of the school. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students explore the components of a watershed and the factors that affect it. They read a topographical map and use geometry to determine the area of a watershed. Students estimate the volume of a body of water and perform runoff calculations based on the surface area. Full Review »
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- 4th - 12th
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Students review how different surfaces cause water to flow differently in watersheds. In groups, they use the school grounds to measure the amount of rainfall in different locations. They practice calculating area, cubic feet and volume and add them together to get the total amount of rainfall. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students are introduced to the techniques of low impact development. As a class, they discuss the effect of paving a surface of the earth on water. They use the internet to research one of the various techniques more in depth and present options to the class for the site of a new building. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students comprehend how satellites use remote sensing to produce images. They use supervised classification with Landsat images. Students recognize that the earth's surface has different basic land surfaces that reflect/emit different radiation. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students comprehend impervious surfaces. They recognize the problems caused by impervous surfaces. Students observe how land use can influence impervious surfaces. They chose four of the seven basic land surface, students draw a picture to represent their four choices in each of the areas, and title each area. Full Review »
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- 7th - 8th
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Students discuss Landsat Satellites and the use of the images they provide as well as the purpose of keeping records of the information from the satellites. The class works in groups to complete a worksheet on short term and long term changes that take place on the Earth's surface and identify why observations are important to specific users. Full Review »
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