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Hello and welcome to the Global Precipitation 

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Measurement Mission education website. Allow 

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me to give you a brief tour of what is available. 

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We’ll look at some of the top menu items shortly. 

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but let’s first take a look at our main page. You’ll 

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see rotating Featured Resources. as well as 

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website highlights and the latest tweets from our 

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social media team. Links at the bottom of the 

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page will allow you to follow us on Facebook. 

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Twitter and YouTube.

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Back up at the top. notice the four main 

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educational themes: the water cycle. weather and 

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climate. technology and societal applications. All 

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of our educational resources are divided among 

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these four broad categories. Our education and 

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public outreach team has created a number of 

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original materials. but also combed the Internet 

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looking for high quality materials from other 

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sources. In addition to the search feature. 

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available in the blue box on many of the pages. 

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there are a number of ways to browse materials. 

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You can click on any of the themes which then 

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takes you to a short summary. a few highlighted 

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items. and a more extensive listing of resources 

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in this area. 

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Items can also be sorted by type. audience. or 

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date of addition to the website. For example. if 

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you only want to see videos about the water cycle. 

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select that option and apply.  

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select that option and apply.  

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Each theme also has sub-topics – click on one of 

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those and you’ll get a list of resources in that 

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topic. also able to be sorted by type and 

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audience. You can click on any of the words 

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highlighted in blue in an item description to 

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browse for other resources in that category. 

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including the Next Generation Science Standards 

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Disciplinary Core Idea.

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Let’s now take a look at what each lesson plan 

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has to offer. Each GPM Original Lesson plan 

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includes a downloadable teacher guide. student 

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capture sheet. and presentation in PowerPoint 

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format. Some have additional supplementary 

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items such as the pre and post assessment 

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listed here. Please also note that for GPM 

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original lesson plans we can provide answer 

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keys if you contact us using the form.  

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keys if you contact us using the form.  

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Make sure you specify in the subject or body of 

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the message which lesson you would like a key 

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for. 

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Returning to the home page. let’s go back to that 

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top menu bar I skipped over before.  If you click 

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on current activities. you can see many of our 

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active outreach events and efforts.

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GPM Originals will provide a listing of all the 

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materials developed by the GPM Education and 

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Public Outreach team. which of course you can 

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further sort by type or audience. 

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Next are the glossary and frequently asked 

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questions buttons. which will take you to those 

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respective pages of the site. You may have 

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noticed underlined words on pages we’ve 

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already visited.  Hovering over these terms will 

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pop up the definition. and clicking will take you 

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directly to that portion of the glossary. You can 

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then also search for other materials that have 

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that term as a keyword. 

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Finally. the last button on the top menu will take 

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you to the mission website with the latest 

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updates. data and press releases. aimed at a 

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general audience rather than just educators. 

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general audience rather than just educators. 

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I hope this tour has been useful. and please use 

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the contact form to get in touch with us for any 

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further questions you may have.