Data Sources and Tools
These sites provide on-line or downloadable tools for visualizing or manipulating data or datasets that can be used in the classroom.
Subject
Science Background Required
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Audio/Visual > Animations/Video
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The Visualization Tool Kit (VTK) part of Data, Simulations and Models:Tool Sheets
An image created with the Visualization Toolkit showing ice surface velocity from a modeled collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Image by Chuck Anderson, Penn State University. submitted by Chuck Anderson, ...
Sea Ice Index part of Data, Simulations and Models:Tool Sheets
submitted by Walt Meier, National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado, Boulder General Description The Sea Ice Index ( This site may be offline. ) is a collection of data and tools to examine sea ice ...
Nuclear Fission Simulation part of SERC Web Resource Collection
A PhET simulation showing nuclear fission. Companion activities are linked from the simulation page.
The Gapminder World 2006 part of SERC Web Resource Collection
Gapminder is a non-profit venture developing information technology for provision of free statistics in new visual and animated ways. Goal: enable you to make sense of the world by having fun with ...
Marine Geology and Geophysics part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration website provides bathymetry, topography and relief data; digital coastlines; an interactive coastline extractor; ocean mapping; the geomorphology ...
WWW Animations of the Climate Research Unit-UK Temperature Record: 1856 to 1997 part of SERC Web Resource Collection
NOAA Paleoclimatology program provides six different animations of Climate Research Unit (CRU) temperature data. Data can be used to view globally mapped temperature for the time period of available ...
Tropical Atmosphere Ocean project - data display part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site provides access to real-time oceanographic and meteorological data from approximately 70 moored buoys in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Data types include wind, air and sea temperature, ...
Weather Graphics part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This product site for Weather Graphics Technology contains a large collection of weather-related software programs, books, videos, archived weather data, paper charts and a list of services. Weather ...
Population of the U.S. by age and sex 1950-2050 part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site is an animated pyramid graph depicting the population of the US by age and sex from 1950 to 2050. The animation runs continuously. Links to other animations and a homepage are also ...
Our Dynamic Planet part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This CD-ROM consists of tools for investigations of the theory of plate tectonics. Modules include virtual plate tectonics lecture (30 minute animated plate tectonics video), geography game, profile ...