Data Sources from Investigation Plans

Shout Out Loud: Arnold Kalmbach
Students investigate who is the loudest in their class and what properties of a word make it a word that can be shouted loudly.
Shout Out Loud Raw Data
Mr. Kalmbach's Teacher Web Handouts (http://teacherweb.com/MA/FrederickWHartnettMiddleSchool/MrKalmbach-7thGradeMath/photo7.stm)

Plate Boundaries, Earthquakes, & Volcanoes: Alison Bosma
Students investigate the correlation between plate boundaries, earthquakes, and volcanoes.
Uses the data that comes bundled with ArcVoyager GIS

Locating Current Earthquake Activity: Becky Widing
Students investigate the location of earthquakes that have occurred in the past twenty-four hours and in the last seven days.
USGS Latest Earthquakes

Tsunami 2004, Banda Aceh: Brendan F. Hayes
Students analyze the pre-tsunami images of Banda Aceh and attempt to decipher various features (Houses, hotels, shrimp farms, etc.). They compare the satellite images to contour and/or tourism maps, outline the "destruction line", calculate the damaged area, and estimate the height of the surge.
Unosat.com
Free satellite imagery and geographic information made available for the humanitarian community and for experts worldwide working to reduce disasters and plan sustainable development.

Evolution of Major Rivers of the World: Gwen Pozdena
Students locate major rivers of the world, gather statistics on the rate of flow, width, length, and water use of the rivers, and research issues surrounding them today.
Not specified yet. One possibility:
Mississippi Delta

Migrating Without Visas: Jayanthi Rangan
Students explore migratory routes of monarch butterflies and robins.
Journey North

Blame It On The Rain: Judy Bradley
Students investigate the relationship between stream height and precipitation.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Riverways Program, Eel River data

"Duck Tour" Using GIS: Linda Brooks
Students use average speed to describe an object's motion and then create a distance-time graph to represent that motion.
Uses the data that comes bundled with ArcVoyager GIS plus GIS data created for the activity.

Using GLOBE Data to Study the Earth System: Mark Murphy and Sam Genier
Students use GLOBE graphing tool and data to investigate various interactions between the earth's spheres.
Globe Datasets with Graphing Tool

Using GIS to understand Hurricanes: Sean O'Connor
Students track hurricanes to investigate conditions that can affect the path and strength of them.
Weather Underground Hurricane Archive