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This is a working collection of Internet and other
resources collected by Mission Geography team members and their
graduate assistants. Scroll down to see the materials we are
collecting as we develop our ideas. Later, a Table of Contents will
provide better access to the materials at this site.
RESOURCES,
MAY 1999
This link takes you to the draft unit/activity template: http://geog.tamu.edu/sarah/template.htm
Additional resources requested from the Ames meeting are found at the bottom of this list. Scientists who met with us at Ames are listed at arc.htm.
DRAFT
ACTIVITIES, MARCH 1999
http://geog.tamu.edu/sarah/scopesequence.pdf
This is a .pdf file with each of the activities proposed at the March meeting arranged in a similar format.
To accompany the draft activities is a new page, developed by David Hill, a matrix of the proposed activities including the new activities being developed by the 9-12 group. http://geog.tamu.edu/sarah/matrix.htm
This is a page of resources developed by Pat Robeson specifically for the K-4 group.
KEY LINKS FOR MISSION GEOGRAPHY
http://www.colorado.edu/geography/cge/MissionGeog/mg.html
These are the links uncovered and annotated by Brian King, the graduate student working with Dave Hill on Mission Geography.
This site is at the University of Colorado. Please make your suggestions for additional resources to both Brian and me.
Finding
Images
USGS archives all of NASA's imagery. They also distribute images and data to the public. I recommend going to them rather than searching all of the many NASA data bases. If you have image numbers or if you know the dates, whether it was satellite or a shuttle mission, any other information that would narrow it down some. There may be thousands of images of the Aral Sea in the archives. The EROS Data Center is: http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/eros-home.html Information on how to order products is available at this site. Also an e-mail address for queries is listed. NASA doesn't sell images, but if USGS can find the images for you and supply the numbers, then you might be able to get the image from NASA (at no cost) since it is for a NASA related project. --provided by Jim McMurtray, NASA Aerospace Education Services Program
Mars Millenium Project This national initiative sponsored by the White House and other agencies asks students to picture the future. The web site is at http://www.mars2030.net/ -What makes a community? -What makes life meaningful in your community? -What physical characteristics of Earth affect a community? -How would your existing community be the same on Mars? Be different? -How would you create/represent the "ideal" community on Mars? -Based on your "ideal" Martian community, how would you change your Earth community? --provided by Jane George
On Line Road Rally Take a peek at the online Road Rally created in association with the NASA CONNECT television/web series. We leveraged from the EarthKAM images to create an online road rally that takes users to five different continents and to five different locations. At each "checkpoint" they are shown an image of the location as seen from space (EARTHKAM IMAGE!). Users have the opportunity to access general and more focused questions about the image to guide them in exploring and analyzing the image. Users are then asked to make a decision to which biome the location is found. Information about the image can also be gathered from the site. In the end, users are able to see the number of correct responses made and to see how this compared with the overall "contestants" in the road rally. Check out the Road Rally as a possible (holiday) exercise for your students and/or as something to encourage a home connection with parents for getting involved with their child with EarthKAM and working with images! http://hpccp3.larc.nasa.gov/connect/gps/ To learn more about NASA CONNECT, visit the home page: http://edu.larc.nasa.gov/connect
NEW PHONE/FAX NUMBERS FOR NASA CORE NASA's Central Operation of Resources for Educators (CORE) office now has a direct telephone and fax line. You can reach the NASA CORE office by calling/faxing: Phone: (440) 775-1400 FAX: (440) 775-1460 NASA's Central Operation of Resources for Educators (CORE) is a worldwide distribution center for NASA's audiovisual educational materials. For a minimal fee, NASA CORE will provide educators unable to visit one of the NASA Educator Resource Centers with materials through its mail order service.
EARTHSHOTS <http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/earthshots/slow/tableofcontents> The U.S. Geological Survey produces a WWW site, "EarthShots: Satellite Images of Environmental Change," which includes articles on topics such as agriculture, city desert, forest, geology, water, and wildlife, depicting global environmental change. Each article is illustrated with satellite imagery and photographs.
ONE SKY, MANY VOICES <http://onesky.engin.umich.edu/> The mission of the One Sky, Many Voices Project is to "create innovative, inquiry-based K-12 weather curricula that utilize current technologies such as CD-ROMs and the WWW for the interactive study of weather and air quality." Students, teachers, parents, and scientists can participate from classrooms, homes, after-school programs or other educational settings. The project provides 4-week and 8-week programs centered around environmental science themes.
VISIT TO AN OCEAN PLANET CD-ROM <http://topex-www.jpl.nasa.gov/discover/discover.html> Over 4 thousand pre-release orders have been filled for the new NASA education product Visit to an Ocean Planet. The CD-ROM features units on Climate, Oceanography, and Life in Our Oceans, a self-guided multimedia tour of 1997 -1998 El Nino event, an Earth-orbiting satellite game, an interactive Gulf of Mexico cruise planning Expedition, a section on oceanographers and their work, and information about the TOPEX/Poseidon satellite and applications of altimetry data. Visit to an Ocean Planet can be ordered free of charge through <http://topex-www.jpl.nasa.gov/discover/discover.html>. The CD-ROM will be advertised widely to the education community starting in February.
CERES http://btc.montana.edu/ceres/html/EdActivities.html This site overs a possible model for the activities we might wish to offer on line. It focuses on astronomy but has a clever, visual format to the lessons.
MISSION GEOGRAPHY UNIT PLANNER http://geog.tamu.edu/sarah/mgunitplanner.pdf available as a .pdf file which you can read with Acrobat Reader 3.0
GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER MEETING http://geog.tamu.edu/sarah/gsfc.htm This is a contact list of the NASA personnel who met with Mission Geography on March 12, 1999, at Goddard.
EARTHKAM CURRICULUM MATERIALS http://www.earthkam.ucsd.edu/curriculum These are the curriculum materials developed for teachers to use with EarthKAM.
ARCHEOLOGY FROM SPACE RESEARCH http://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/archeology/ This site features NASA's archeology from space research. It includes an excellent view of deforestation along the border of Mexico and Guatemala.
REMOTE SENSING TUTORIAL http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/TofC/Coverpage.html The samples used in this tutorial provide a pretty good (but by no means comprehensive) survey of active NASA research in remote sensing. Some of the section topics relate to activities in Mission Geography's online pdf document.
LANDSAT BONANZA http://ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/LANDSAT/CAMPAIGN_DOCS/MAIN/Education.html This site has a flotilla of information about using imagery in the classroom along with links to other sites.
NIH IMAGE A public domain image processing program for MACs suggested by Steve Culivan is NIH Image from National Institutes of Health. It can easily be used with remote sensing images that we may include in our units. Here is the URL where you can download a copy: http://rsb.info.nih.gov/nih-image/ There is another public domain image processing program for both Macs and PC's called MultiSpec out of Purdue Univ. You can download a copy at: http://dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu/%7Ebiehl/MultiSpec/Index.html Also there is a pretty good web site with some earth images. It is the NASA Observatorium(one of you may have suggested this one earlier): http://www.rspac.ivv.nasa.gov/nasa/core.shtml
IMAGES OF EARTH FROM SPACE Shuttle images of Earth: http://earthrise.sdsc.edu/index.html http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/ Shuttle radar images: http://southport.jpl.nasa.gov/pic.html
MAP SOURCES FOR K-4 This is the "Color Landform Atlas of the U.S." site, http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html. Also, here is a nice site with links to 100s of map sources (including some NASA imagery). A good place to look for thematic maps to match up with space images, too. http://www.cgrer.uiowa.edu/servers/servers_references.html In case it's of use to anybody, here's a site (from geophysics dept. at UCLA) which took the Magellan data for Venus and produced some nice interactive "hypermaps." http://www.ess.ucla.edu/hypermap/Vmap/top.html I also spoke with the K-4 group about an EPA site which allows you to do some simple GIS analysis on watershed data. The general site still exists, with some capabilities (http://www.epa.gov/surf/), but the last three times I tried the link to really do the more detailed GIS stuff, if was dead ("server not available.).
ECHO THE BAT AND REMOTE SENSING FOR LITTLE KIDS http://imagers.gsfc.nasa.gov/ is Interactive Multimedia Adventures for Grade-School Education using Remote Sensing, from Goddard/NASA. It has both a student's site and a teacher's guide.
GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE http://www.nacc.usgcrp.gov/ with tons of graphics and background and--well, a treasure trove. REVISED EARTH SCIENCE EDUCATION PAGE http://www.earth.nasa.gov/education/index.html Education Reports is there and an excellent resource.
SEARCHABLE NASA IMAGE DATABASE A searchable NASA databasewith good, clear captions to unnoticed. http://nix.nasa.gov/ I didn't find this URL on the resource page. It is quite slow to download, but probably worth the wait. For example, the 5-8 group was interested in thermal imagery of Hawaiian lava flows. And this popped up: http://ails.arc.nasa.gov/Images/EarthSci/AC93-0051-3.html
MORE IMAGES FROM AMES In case folks want to use them, Ron Dorn found some of the more spectacular images from our visit to AMES on the following page: http://ails.arc.nasa.gov/Images/EarthSci/index.html#mtpe For direct links and examples: http://ails.arc.nasa.gov/Images/EarthSci/AC88-0552-8.html Yellowstone fires shown here in a composite of visible and thermal channels; Photographer: C-130 Imagery; ate: Sept. 1988 http://ails.arc.nasa.gov/Images/EarthSci/AC91-0610-1.html Airborne Image of Oakland Hills fire; Photographer: C-130 Imagery http://ails.arc.nasa.gov/Images/EarthSci/AC93-0051-3.html This is the one that shows the temps and the housing subdivision.
IMAGES AND DOCUMENTS OF INTEREST TO MG Bob Bednarz suggests the following link for nice pictures of the Pinatubo event. http://pubs.usgs.gov/pinatubo/punong1/index.html Deforestation is featured in the document State of the World's Forests which includes a nice appendix full of data. http://www.fao.org/waicent/faoinfo/forestry/sofo/sofo99/pdf/sofo_e/coper_en.pdf
IMAGES OF EARTH FROM SPACE shuttle images of the earth: http://earthrise.sdsc.edu/index.html http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/ shuttle radar images: http://southport.jpl.nasa.gov/pic.html
MOLA MOLA topographic images may be viewed at the following web address: http://pao.gsfc.nasa.gov/gsfc/spacesci/pictures/mola/mars3d.htm More details about the MOLA instrument and science investigation can be found at: http://ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/tharsis/mola.html
REVISED ESE WEBSITE http://www.earth.nasa.gov/education/index.html Check out: http://www.nacc.usgcrp.gov/ with rich graphics and background and--well, a treasure trove.
EL NINO PUDDING 'El Nino pudding', a great activity and delicious treat, and its link to the global climate event are now staged on the highly acclaimed NASA children's site; SpacePlace at http://spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov/topex_make1.htm.
GEOMORPH RESOURCES http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/DAAC_DOCS/geomorphology/GEO_HOME_PAGE.html Here is another one for just images: http://geoinfo.amu.edu.pl/wpk/geos/location.html
RESOURCES FROM DR MEESE'S PRESENTATION AT GODDARD Studying the Earth's Environment from Space (High School/Under Grad) http://see.gsfc.nasa.gov/edu/SEES Inquiry based classroom and lab activities for studying earth using satellite data. The program is aimed at high school and undergraduate levels. Remote Sensing Core Curriculum (Under Grad) http://research.umbc.edu/~tbenja1 Remote Sensing Core Curriculum provides the resources to support a state-of-the-practice educational experience at our national and international collegiate institutions. The RSCC design represents a collection of the highest quality resource materials available in this rapidly growing field. An American Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing (ASPRS) initiative for Space Age International Education. Observatorium (Middle School, High School Teacher's Guides) http://observe.ivv.nasa.gov/nasa/core.shtml NASA's Observatorium is a public access site for Earth and space data. We have pictures of the Earth, planets, stars, and other cool stuff, as well as the stories behind those images. Observatorium (Resource material) http://observe.ivv.nasa.gov/nasa/education/tools/stepby/multi.html Free satellite imagery Earth System Science (education and research resources) http://www.usra.edu/esse/essonline/home.html Earth System Science Education sponsored by NASA through the Universities Space Research Association, ESSE, supports the development of undergraduate curricula in Earth System Science and Global Change at forty-four participating colleges and universities. The goal of this site is to serve as a repository for Earth System Science education and research resources - a starting point for your reference as you explore this expanding interdisciplinary field, or a place to look for the latest ESS developments. The Goddard DAAC (Resource Materials) http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/DAAC_DOCS/educational/links.html Educational Materials list provided by the Goddard Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC). The DAAC provides data and related services for global change research and education. Earth Science Education Catalog (Resource Materials) http://www.earth.nasa.gov/education/catalog/index.html NASA's Earth Science Education Catalog (Downloadable) Exploring the Environment (High School) http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/carbon/efremote.html Remote Sensing Activities on the Exploring the Environment (ETE) Program with is a part of NASA's Classroom of the future. Exploring the Environment -Science Explorer (Middle School) http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/explorer.html Middle School Earth Science Explorer (Teacher and Student Pages) - part of the Exploring the Environment (ETE) program. Soil Science Education Homepage (Elementary, Middle School) http://ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/globe/index.htm Soil Science Education Homepage. This page contains a lot of new, exciting, fun and informative material on the soil. There is a Soil Gallery, where you can see the Soil of the Month and read some soil stories in Once Upon a Sandy Loam. You can even sing some soil songs in Rock 'N Soil. You can also find out about some Secrets Hidden in the Soil. Earth Today (Resource Materials) http://www.nasm.si.edu/earthtoday/ Earth Today is a new exhibit located in the Rocketry and Space Flight Gallery of the Air and Space Museum. This web site provides a quick look at the information presented in the Earth Today exhibit as well as links to many of the near real-time data sets used to study the earth.
RESOURCES SUGGESTED BY RON DORN Jaw-dropping NASA images that are awesome to display all sorts of geography relevant to our various projects. http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/imagewall.html: The site is a visualization lab with some absolutely incredible material on display in different categories. This is the front page for the site: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/imagewall/LandSat.html This is a sub-menu with a couple of astouding images for our lessons: For Gary's Chesapeake project: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/imagewall/LandSat/chesapeake.html for the Middle School project http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/imagewall/LandSat/mt_st_helens.html This is a site on oceanography images taken by the space shuttle. I've cut and pasted the items that I heard discussed at the AMES meeting. But there's a lot more than just these images. http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/CAMPAIGN_DOCS/OCDST/shuttle_oceanography_web/oss_contents.html