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Animated Water Cycle

Screenshot from the water cycle animation
Primary Topic: 
Water Cycle
Subtopics: 
Hydrologic Cycle, Precipitation
Type: 
Interactive
Audience: 
Outreach, Informal, Formal, K - 5
Standards: 
ESS2.C
Keywords: 
rain, water storage, clouds, vapor
Summary: 
This flash animation takes viewers through four aspects of the water cycle: rain, water storage, vapor, and clouds.

Measuring Raindrops

Measuring Raindrops thumbnail
Primary Topic: 
Technology
Subtopics: 
Precipitation, Water Properties, Tropical Cyclones
Type: 
Lesson Plan
Audience: 
Formal, 6 - 8, 9 - 12
Standards: 
ESS2.C, ESS2.D
Keywords: 
clouds, raindrops, cloud chamber, meteorology
Summary: 
Students then collect and analyze data about the size and shapes of raindrops. Students have the opportunity to compare a 2-D representation to a 3-D representation to understand why scientists use multiple sources of data to study Earth Systems.

Water Cycle Dice Game

Water Cycle Dice Game
Primary Topic: 
Water Cycle
Subtopics: 
Hydrologic Cycle, Precipitation, Earth Systems
Type: 
Interactive
Audience: 
9 - 12, 6 - 8, K - 5
Standards: 
ESS2.A
Keywords: 
games
Summary: 
The water cycle may seem simple on the surface, but there are many different ways to move through the process. This page has a few different versions of a Water Cycle Dice game to teach students about the complexities of water in Earth's system.

Assessing Drought in the United States

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

IMERG average precipitation map
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.

Flying Through Hurricanes with Robbie Hood

Robbie Hood in an airplane
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.

Evaporation Investigation

Portion of a diagram of evaporation
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.

Worldwide Rain Gauges Animation

Worldwide Rain Gauges Animation
Primary Topic: 
Technology
Subtopics: 
Precipitation, Data
Type: 
Video
Audience: 
Outreach, Informal, General
Standards: 
ETS2.A
Keywords: 
rain gauges
Summary: 
A simple illustrative comparison of the number of rain gauges active worldwide.

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.

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.

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