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The Using Data in the Classroom project was active between 2003 and 2010. Much of the content dates from that time period and so may not be up to date. We are preserving the content here because it still contains useful ideas.

The Activities Collection draws from newer projects across SERC. You may also want to explore the Data and Models resources discoverable through Teach the Earth

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These sites provide on-line or downloadable tools for visualizing or manipulating data or datasets that can be used in the classroom.



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My NASA Data Lesson Plan: Seasons and Cloud Cover: Are They Related? part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/Solar_Decl.html
This lesson plan uses NASA satellite data to correlate cloud cover over Africa to the solar declination. The four seasons on Earth have a scientific basis. The earth is tilted 23.5 degrees from ...

My NASA Data Lesson Plan: State of the Atmosphere: Interpreting Weather Observations part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/docs/L2_Radiosonde_LaFra...
This user-contributed lesson plan provides instructions for several activities for students to perform to study the relationship of temperature, pressure, relative humidity, and dew point in cloud ...

My NASA Data Lesson Plan: Storm Clouds-- Fly over a Late Winter Storm onboard a NASA Earth Observing Satellite part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/Storm_Clouds.html
This lesson plan uses Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) cloud data and a weather map to explore cloud coverage during a winter storm. When atmospheric scientists, including ...

My NASA Data Lesson Plan: Using Imported Data in Excel: Plot Atmospheric Temperature part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/docs/L1_Excel_Starkins.doc
This user-contributed tutorial provides detailed instructions on how to make Excel graphs of data that is imported from the Internet. The tutorial contains sample screen images to assist in ...

My NASA Data Lesson Plan: A Comparison of Cloud Coverage over Africa part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/Cloud_Compare.html
This lesson plan uses NASA satellite data to contrast amounts of cloud coverage over different climate regions in Africa. It introduces the circulation pattern of Hadley Cells and the band of ...

My NASA Data Lesson Plan: Circle the Earth - Explore Surface Types on a Journey around Earth part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/Circle_the_Earth.html
This lesson plan uses NASA Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) instrument percent coverage surface data with a world map to locate landmasses and bodies of water at the ...

My NASA Data Lesson Plans part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/lessons.html
MY NASA DATA (Mentoring and inquirY using NASA Data) is an effort to develop microsets of Earth science data that are interesting and useful to the K-12 and citizen scientist communities. The ...

Chesapeake Bay Observing System part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.cbos.org/
The Chesapeake Bay Observing System (CBOS) provides live insitu data from buoys and weather stations located in and near the Chesapeake Bay. The data includes wind speed and direction, rainfall, ...

Science Bulletins part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://sciencebulletins.amnh.org
The Science Bulletins Web site brings free, current science to the general public, informal learning centers, and classrooms. The Earth Science Bulletins present ongoing research and recent ...

National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services part of SERC Web Resource Collection

https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/
The Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS) collects, analyzes and distributes historical and real-time observations and predictions of water levels, coastal currents and ...