Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Seasons and Cloud Cover, Are They Related?

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Young scholars use NASA satellite data to correlate cloud cover over Africa to the solar declination.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Tropical Atlantic Aerosols

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students analyze NASA data from the Multi-angle Imaging Spectroradiometer. In this NASA data lesson, students access an assigned website to examine information from the MISR on the Terra Satellite. They determine how desert dust travels...
Lesson Plan
Climate Literacy

Clean: March of the Polar Bears: Global Change, Sea Ice, and Wildlife Migration

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use NASA satellite data to study temperature and snow-ice coverage in the South Beaufort Sea, Alaska. With the data, they investigate global change, sea ice changes, and polar bear migration.
Unit Plan
NASA

Nasa: Effect of the Sun's Energy on the Ocean and Atmosphere

For Students 9th - 10th
A project based lesson where students' mission is to conduct a series of tasks that enable them to audit Earth's energy budget and help answer a number of science questions.