This article explains the basics behind the water cycle and includes many good visuals. It provides some good background information about our water cycle as well as providing students with many real-world applications.

Climate Change and Human Health

Primary Topic:

Societal Applications

Subtopics:

Weather and Climate, Climate, Human Impact, World Health

Type:

Website

Audience:

Informal, Formal, 6 - 8, 9 - 12

Keywords:

climate change, agriculture

Standards:

ESS3.C, ESS3.D

Summary:

The Climate Change and Human Health project is designed to provide educators with the resources to engage high school students in critical thinking about climate change and the potential impact on human health across the planet.

Where the Rain Falls: Can Understanding Rain Enable Change?

Primary Topic:

Societal Applications

Subtopics:

Weather and Climate, Floods, Freshwater Resources, World Health

Type:

Website

Audience:

Outreach, Informal, Formal, General

Keywords:

climate change, agriculture

Standards:

ESS3.C, ESS3.D

Summary:

This website describes a study that is being conducted to understand the complexities of rainfall patterns and their effects on food security and human mobility.

Monitoring Floods and Fires During the Summer of 2011

Primary Topic:

Societal Applications

Subtopics:

Technology, Satellites, Remote Sensing, Floods

Type:

Image

Audience:

Outreach, Informal, Formal, General

Standards:

ESS3.B, ESS3.C

Keywords:

storms, drought, floods, natural disasters, fires

Summary:

See Landsat images before and after these natural disasters.

Earth System Science

Primary Topic:

Water Cycle

Subtopics:

Hydrologic Cycle, Earth Systems, Societal Applications

Type:

Lesson Plan

Audience:

Formal, 6 - 8

Standards:

ESS2.A, ESS2.C

Keywords:

water vapor, clouds, heat, latent heat

Summary:

This unit will introduce you to many of the complex issues surrounding the Earth as a system and will help you to look at Earth in a new way—as a living system.

Using Satellites to Track Water

Primary Topic:

Societal Applications

Subtopics:

Technology, STEM Careers, Floods, Freshwater Resources

Type:

Article

Audience:

Outreach, Informal, Formal

Standards:

ESS3.A, ESS3.B

Keywords:

hydrology

Summary:

Faisal Hossain, a civil and environmental engineering professor at Tennessee Technological University, uses NASA satellite data to help Bangladeshi authorities monitor their water resources and prepare for water-related disasters.

Hurricane / Tropical Cyclones: Technologies

Primary Topic:

Technology

Subtopics:

Weather and Climate, Tropical Cyclones, Remote Sensing

Type:

Website

Audience:

Informal, Formal, 6 - 8, 9 - 12

Keywords:

hurricanes, GPS, airborne science, altimitry

Standards:

ESS2.A

Summary:

This website explores the technologies used to study and understand tropical cyclones.

Using Vegetation, Precipitation, and Surface Temperature to Study Climate Zones

Primary Topic:

Weather and Climate

Subtopics:

Climate, Satellites, Data

Type:

Lesson Plan

Audience:

Formal, 6 - 8

Standards:

ESS2.D

Keywords:

surface temperature, biome, vegetation

Summary:

For a selected location, the student will investigate possible relationships between the vegetation index, the precipitation, and the surface temperature data over several years' time. Using that information, the student will predict the climate type...