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This short activity uses GIS to explore hurricane track information to understand factors that encourage the formation of hurricanes. This site includes all materials needed for an instructor to ...
Subject: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Coastal Hazards, Geoscience:Oceanography:Ocean-Climate Interactions, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather:Hurricanes, Environmental Science, Geoscience:Oceanography:Marine Hazards, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Extreme weather, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity, Computer Applications, Audio/Visual
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity, Computer Applications, Audio/Visual
This short activity uses GIS to consider place-based hazards (assessing housing choices) using remotely sensed data. This site includes all materials needed for an instructor to carry out the ...
Subject: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Audio/Visual, Activities:Lab Activity, Computer Applications
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Audio/Visual, Activities:Lab Activity, Computer Applications
Mining the world’s most used minerals
This short activity uses GIS to demonstrate what mineral resources are commonly used in daily life and to learn the origins of these resources to better predict where they might be found. This site ...Subject: Environmental Science:Mineral Resources, Sustainability
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Audio/Visual, Activities:Lab Activity, Computer Applications
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Audio/Visual, Activities:Lab Activity, Computer Applications
Globe Watersheds Module 1: Water Availability
Watershed Dynamics projectThe GLOBE Watershed Dynamics Module 1 GIS tool is a freely available web-based GIS. This tool allows users to analyze precipitation, evaporation, and surface runoff data across the US. Curriculum is ...
Subject: Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity, Geoscience:Hydrology:Surface Water, Geography:Geospatial
Resource Type: Computer Applications, Audio/Visual:Images/Illustrations
Resource Type: Computer Applications, Audio/Visual:Images/Illustrations
Representational Tools to Support Understanding of Complex Biological Systems
Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver, Lei LiuThis resource includes a hypermedia on aquarium ecosystems organized around structures, behaviors, and functions as well as NetLogo simulations of macro and microlevel processes. The macrolevel model ...
Subject: Biology:Ecology, Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Ecology, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity
Resource Type: Computer Applications, Pedagogic Resources, Datasets and Tools:Tools
Resource Type: Computer Applications, Pedagogic Resources, Datasets and Tools:Tools
Nuclear Power Plant Simulator 1.30
Geoffrey NolesThis site allows users to download a program in which they simulate running a nuclear power plant. Users learn about energy generation and its limits by walking the fine line between not enough ...
Subject: Environmental Science:Energy:Nuclear Energy
Resource Type: Computer Applications
Resource Type: Computer Applications
World Oil Consumption - 3D Charts in Google Earth
This site, part of the Google Earth blog, provides 3-D graphs of the world's oil consumption by country, both raw use and per capita. The data comes from the CIA World Factbook.Subject: Environmental Science:Energy:Fossil Fuels
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Maps, Computer Applications, Audio/Visual:Images/Illustrations
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Maps, Computer Applications, Audio/Visual:Images/Illustrations
Subject: Environmental Science
Resource Type: Computer Applications
Resource Type: Computer Applications
EdGCM: Climate Modeling for Research and Education
M. Chandler, K. Mankoff, S. Richards, L. SohlThe EdGCM Project develops and distributes a research-quality global climate model (GCM) with a user-friendly interface that runs on desktop computers. Anyone can explore the subject of climate ...
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Climate Change:Global change modeling, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Climate Change:Global change modeling
Resource Type: Datasets and Tools:Tools, Computer Applications
Resource Type: Datasets and Tools:Tools, Computer Applications
This is a downloadable computer simulation which showcases a series of villages that surround an active volcano. The volcano is modeled after Mount Vesuvius and, based on preliminary data, is getting ...
Subject: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Volcanism
Resource Type: Activities, Computer Applications
Resource Type: Activities, Computer Applications