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Beautiful Earth: Floods and Landslides

Beautiful Earth: Floods and Landslides
Primary Topic: 
Weather and Climate
Subtopics: 
Precipitation, Climate, Satellites, Floods, Landslides, Forecasting, World Health
Type: 
Video
Audience: 
Informal, 6 - 8
Standards: 
ESS2.C, ESS3.B, ESS3.D, ETS2.A, ETS2.B
Keywords: 
GPM, soil, extreme events
Summary: 
GPM Application Science Lead, Dr. Dalia Kirschbaum, explains how landslides and floods occur, and how satellite imagery is used in understanding these disasters.

Beautiful Earth: Hurricanes

Beautiful Earth: Hurricanes
Primary Topic: 
Weather and Climate
Subtopics: 
Precipitation, Weather, Climate, Tropical Cyclones, Forecasting
Type: 
Video
Audience: 
Informal, 6 - 8
Standards: 
ETS2.A
Keywords: 
GPM Core Observatory, TRMM, hurricanes
Summary: 
GPM Application Science Lead, Dr. Dalia Kirschbaum, discusses how GPM observes hurricanes from space, as well as the formation process and properties of these hurricanes.

GPM's First Global Rainfall and Snowfall Map

GPM's First Global Rainfall and Snowfall Map
Primary Topic: 
Weather and Climate
Subtopics: 
Precipitation, Weather, Tropical Cyclones, Remote Sensing, Data
Type: 
Video
Audience: 
Outreach, Informal, 9 - 12, 6 - 8, General
Standards: 
ESS2.C, ESS2.D, ETS2.A, ETS2.B
Keywords: 
global, rain, snow, data processing, GPM Constellation, IMERG
Summary: 
GPM Project Scientist Dr. Gail Skofronick-Jackson and Deputy Project Scientist Dr. George Huffman narrate a look at the new GPM IMERG global dataset.

GPM Scientists Answer Students' Questions About Global Precipitation

GPM Master Teachers and Pilot Teachers showed their students the data animation depicting six months of global precipitation, and asked their students to share their questions for NASA scientists about this new global portrait of rain and snow.
Primary Topic: 
Societal Applications
Subtopics: 
Precipitation, Earth Systems, Weather, Tropical Cyclones, Floods, Landslides
Type: 
Video
Audience: 
Outreach, Informal, 9 - 12, 6 - 8, General
Standards: 
ESS2.C, ESS2.D, ETS2.A, ETS2.B
Keywords: 
GPM Core Observatory, IMERG
Summary: 
GPM Master Teachers and Pilot Teachers showed their students the data animation depicting six months of global precipitation, and asked their students to share their questions for NASA scientists about this new global portrait of rain and snow.

GPM in a Minute

http://pmm.nasa.gov/extreme-weather/first-2015-tropical-storm-forms-eastern-pacific
Primary Topic: 
Technology
Subtopics: 
Satellites, Launch Vehicle, STEM Careers
Type: 
Video
Audience: 
Outreach, Informal, General
Standards: 
ETS2.A, ETS2.B
Keywords: 
NASA Goddard, Tanegashima Space Center, engineering, testing, GPM Core Observatory
Summary: 
A time-lapse video that shows the assembly and testing of the GPM Core Observatory satellite in one minute.

First Data from GPM

http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=11784
Primary Topic: 
Technology
Subtopics: 
Precipitation, Weather and Climate, Weather, Tropical Cyclones, Satellites, Data
Type: 
Video
Audience: 
Outreach, Informal, 9 - 12, 6 - 8, General
Standards: 
ESS2.D, ESS3.D, ETS2.A
Keywords: 
GPM Core Observatory, JAXA, GMI, DPR
Summary: 
NASA and JAXA released the first images captured by their newest Earth-observing satellite, the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory, which launched into space Feb. 27, 2014.

2015 Summer Watershed Institute - Teacher Bios

<h2>Third Grade Team</h2> <div class="img_frame img_resize_20 img_left img_solo"><img src="/education/sites/default/files/article_images/swi-teacher-bios-2015_files/image004.png" /></div> <h3>Rachel Carson - Flora Singer E.S. - Montgomery&nbsp;</h3> <p>&quot;I currently teach third grade at Flora Singer Elementary School. I teach the inclusion classroom consisting of general education and special education students. This is my fifth year teaching third grade and I love it. I teach all subjects, including
Primary Topic: 
All Topics
Type: 
Basic Page
Audience: 
General
Summary: 
Biographies of the teachers participating in the 2015 Summer Watershed Institute program at NASA Goddard.

Models of Landforms and Bodies of Water

Primary Topic: 
Water Cycle
Subtopics: 
Societal Applications, Freshwater Resources
Type: 
Lesson Plan
Audience: 
Formal, K - 5
Standards: 
ESS2.A
Keywords: 
landforms, bodies of water, models
Summary: 
The purpose of this lesson is to provide students with experience creating models of landforms and bodies of water. Students review the characteristics of landforms and bodies of water in an active game, and then make models of these.

The Water Cycle - Animation

The Water Cycle - Animation
Primary Topic: 
Water Cycle
Subtopics: 
Hydrologic Cycle, Precipitation
Type: 
Video
Audience: 
Informal, Formal, General
Standards: 
ESS2.C
Keywords: 
evaporation, condensation, groundwater, animations
Summary: 
This animation shows the entire process of the water cycle throughout the course of a day.

Identifying Landforms and Bodies of Water on a Map

Identifying Landforms and Bodies of Water on a Map
Primary Topic: 
Water Cycle
Subtopics: 
Remote Sensing, Data, Societal Applications
Type: 
Lesson Plan
Audience: 
Formal, K - 5
Standards: 
ESS2.C
Keywords: 
landforms, maps, bodies of water
Summary: 
The purpose of this lesson is to expose elementary level students to the practice of “developing and using models” as students explore and identify landforms and bodies of water on a map of the world. It is anticipated that this lesson will take one hour.

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