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Water for Wheaties? Freshwater Resources for Agriculture - High School

Primary Topic:

Societal Applications

Subtopics:

Water Cycle, Water & Life, Weather, Climate, Freshwater Resources

Type:

Lesson Plan

Audience:

Outreach, Informal, Formal, 9 - 12

Keywords:

agriculture, freshwater

Summary:

Students will learn about how NASA’s Earth observing satellites are helping us better understand Earth’s freshwater resources and help farmers with agriculture.

GPM Selects Master Teachers

Primary Topic:

Societal Applications

Type:

Article

Summary:

GPM recently completed a competitive process to select 25 teachers from around the world for its Master Teacher Program. The chosen educators will develop educational resources based on GPM's data to share with their students and school communities.

Towers in the Tempest

Primary Topic:

Weather and Climate

Subtopics:

Weather, Tropical Cyclones, Energy Cycle, Remote Sensing

Type:

Video

Audience:

Informal, Formal, 9 - 12, 6 - 8, General

Standards:

ESS2.A

Keywords:

hurricanes, hot towers, TRMM, low pressure

Summary:

'Towers in the Tempest' is a 4.5 minute narrated animation that explains recent scientific insights into how hurricanes intensify. This intensification can be caused by a phenomenon called a 'hot tower'.

GPM Anime Contest Webquest Part 2: Weather & Climate

Three lightning bolts strike above Washington DC - by Brian Allen

Primary Topic:

All Topics

Subtopics:

Weather and Climate, Weather, Climate, Energy Cycle

Type:

Interactive

Audience:

Outreach, Informal, Formal, General

Standards:

ESS2.D, ESS3.D

Summary:

Part 2 of a 4 part webquest that teaches the basics of precipitation science and technology. Prepares students for the GPM Anime Contest.

Flying Through Hurricanes with Robbie Hood

Primary Topic:

Weather and Climate

Subtopics:

Tropical Cyclones, STEM Careers, Forecasting

Type:

Article

Audience:

Informal, Formal, General

Standards:

ESS2.D, ESS3.B

Keywords:

hurricane, storm severity, precipitation, clouds

Summary:

This month's NASA Earth Explorer explains what it's like to be face-to-face with one of nature's most powerful storms.

Assessing Drought in the United States

Primary Topic:

Societal Applications

Subtopics:

Water & Life, Weather and Climate, Weather, Climate, Data, Freshwater Resources

Type:

Video

Audience:

Outreach, Informal, Formal, 9 - 12, 6 - 8

Standards:

ESS3.A, ESS3.B

Keywords:

drought, citizen science, drought severity, precipitation variability

Summary:

This short animation from the Community Collaborative Rain Hail and Snow Network shows how decision makers use a variety of data and in-person reports to assess the drought conditions across the United States.

Predicting Earth's Climate with NASA Data

Primary Topic:

Weather and Climate

Subtopics:

Earth Systems, Climate, Satellites, Data, Forecasting

Type:

Interactive

Audience:

Outreach, Formal, 9 - 12, 6 - 8, K - 5

Summary:

A collection of resources exploring how NASA satellites like GPM can help monitor and predict Earth's climate.

Evaporation Investigation

Primary Topic:

Water Cycle

Type:

Lesson Plan

Audience:

Formal

Keywords:

evaporation, condensation, precipitation, transpiration, ice, liquid, gas, phases

Summary:

This lesson is primarily for elementary school teachers who are looking for a hands-on inquiry based activity to teach their students about evaporation.

The Water Cycle: Heating the Ocean

Multiple Earth's showing different heat visualizations

Primary Topic:

Water Cycle

Subtopics:

Earth Systems, Weather and Climate, Climate, Energy Cycle

Type:

Video

Audience:

Informal, Formal, 9 - 12, 6 - 8

Standards:

ESS2.A, ESS2.C

Keywords:

cryosphere, ice, permafrost, sea ice, ocean currents, glaciers, satellites

Summary:

Explore the solar heating of the ocean in part one of a series on the water cycle. The animations show multiple views of the solar heating of the oceans, a picture of this first stage of water's cyclical journey from sea to air to land, and back again.