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Temperature and Earth Climate: Modeling Hot and Cold Planets
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What determines a planet's climate? In this web seminar, educators used NASA mission
data collected from NASA satellites to show how we determine a planet’s climate.
The featured lesson in this web seminar was "Modeling Hot and Cold Planets" from
the Earth Climate Course. Educators explored why extreme temperature differences
exist between Earth and other planets in our solar system. Participants learned
how to engage students with an experiment to determine the factors having the greatest
influence on the temperature of a planet and test their hypotheses using a simulated
computer model. During this seminar, teachers found out how to analyze the measurements
and conduct comparisons with real world data from satellites and ground based observations.
Details
This web seminar is part of a series of electronic professional development experiences
sponsored by the NASA Explorer Schools (NES) project. NASA Explorer Schools invests
in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics educators to inspire and engage
a whole generation of future scientists, engineers and technicians that NASA needs
to continue our journey. NES gives educators of grades 4-12 free access to NASA’s
people, missions, research, and facilities. We take the work out of searching through
thousands of materials on the NASA website and provide a comprehensive set of teaching
materials for dozens of STEM concepts. For additional information about the NASA
Explorer Schools project, visit
http://explorerschools.nasa.gov.
See when other
NASA Explorer Schools Web Seminars are Scheduled
For more information contact webseminars@nsta.org
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Sponsored by NASA
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