Hello and welcome to the Global Precipitation
Measurement Mission education website. Allow
me to give you a brief tour of what is available.
We’ll look at some of the top menu items shortly.
but let’s first take a look at our main page. You’ll
see rotating Featured Resources. as well as
website highlights and the latest tweets from our
social media team. Links at the bottom of the
page will allow you to follow us on Facebook.
Twitter and YouTube.
Back up at the top. notice the four main
educational themes: the water cycle. weather and
climate. technology and societal applications. All
of our educational resources are divided among
these four broad categories. Our education and
public outreach team has created a number of
original materials. but also combed the Internet
looking for high quality materials from other
sources. In addition to the search feature.
available in the blue box on many of the pages.
there are a number of ways to browse materials.
You can click on any of the themes which then
takes you to a short summary. a few highlighted
items. and a more extensive listing of resources
in this area.
Items can also be sorted by type. audience. or
date of addition to the website. For example. if
you only want to see videos about the water cycle.
select that option and apply.
Each theme also has sub-topics – click on one of
those and you’ll get a list of resources in that
topic. also able to be sorted by type and
audience. You can click on any of the words
highlighted in blue in an item description to
browse for other resources in that category.
including the Next Generation Science Standards
Disciplinary Core Idea.
Let’s now take a look at what each lesson plan
has to offer. Each GPM Original Lesson plan
includes a downloadable teacher guide. student
capture sheet. and presentation in PowerPoint
format. Some have additional supplementary
items such as the pre and post assessment
listed here. Please also note that for GPM
original lesson plans we can provide answer
keys if you contact us using the form.
Make sure you specify in the subject or body of
the message which lesson you would like a key
for.
Returning to the home page. let’s go back to that
top menu bar I skipped over before. If you click
on current activities. you can see many of our
active outreach events and efforts.
GPM Originals will provide a listing of all the
materials developed by the GPM Education and
Public Outreach team. which of course you can
further sort by type or audience.
Next are the glossary and frequently asked
questions buttons. which will take you to those
respective pages of the site. You may have
noticed underlined words on pages we’ve
already visited. Hovering over these terms will
pop up the definition. and clicking will take you
directly to that portion of the glossary. You can
then also search for other materials that have
that term as a keyword.
Finally. the last button on the top menu will take
you to the mission website with the latest
updates. data and press releases. aimed at a
general audience rather than just educators.
I hope this tour has been useful. and please use
the contact form to get in touch with us for any
further questions you may have.