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Temperature and Earth Climate: Modeling Hot and Cold Planets
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In this web seminar participating educators learned how to use authentic NASA mission
data collected from NASA satellites to connect students to real-world science. Participants
gained strategies for guiding students in the featured lesson, which explores why
extreme temperature differences exist between Earth and other planets in our solar
system. In the lesson students design 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. They then 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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