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How Does Your Garden Grow? Discovering How Weather Patterns Affect Natural Cycles
For the warm-up in this cool climate lesson, you will need to click on "Mapping" and then "US Mapping" once you arrive at NOAA's "US Climate at a Glance" page. Earth science explorers realize that 2012 was a warm winter for us. They read...
NASA
Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Global Climate Change: Sea Level Viewer
This viewer allows you to see ocean heat storage from space. These images indicate sea surface heights. Learn more about El Nino and La Nina and how they have profound effects on world climate.
NOAA
Noaa: National Ocean Service: Education: Tides and Water Levels
A great resource for explaining and understanding tides. Find out what tides are and why it is so important to monitor them. This is an extensive tutorial followed by a set of review questions. All of the information can be downloaded as...
NOAA
Noaa: National Ocean Service Education: Nonpoint Source Pollution
Illustrated tutorial explains nonpoint source pollution and its role in the health of the environment. Students learn about different sources of pollution and how these pollutants contaminate the land, air, and water. Click on the links...
NOAA
Noaa: The Ocean's Role in Weather and Climate
A collection of resources - interactive activities and teacher tutorials - on the impact the ocean has on weather and climate.
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Noaa: Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory: What Is El Nino?
This page tells you what El Nino is, provides links to animations and videos on El Nino, explains how to recognize El Nino, and discusses the history of significant El Nino events.
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Noaa: National Weather Service: Oregon
This resource includes weather summaries, hourly weather reports, zone forecasts, weather watches, warnings and advisories etc.
NOAA
Noaa: It All Runs Down Hill [Pdf]
Read how freshwater moving across the surface of the Earth can become polluted and bad for the environment. Create a model that shows how water can become polluted as it flows downhill.
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Noaa: Structure of the Earth [Pdf]
Create a model to help learn the layers and structures within the Earth. Identify characteristics of each layer of the Earth.
NOAA
Noaa: National Weather Service
The National Weather Service presents this site which explains the operations of the NWS. Learn about the Weather Forcast Offices, the River Forcast Office, NOAA Weather Radio, and more, including Career opportunities with the NWS.
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Noaa: What Is Paleoclimatology?
An introduction from NOAA to the study of Paleoclimatology. Provides link to the NOAA's Paleoclimatology Data page where there is a great deal of more information.
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Noaa: National Climatic Data Center: Groundhog Day
Find background about Groundhog Day and the folklore involved. Look through the charts that show how closely Punxsutawney Phil's predicitions align with the actual weather.
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Noaa: Weather Systems and Patterns
Imagine our weather if Earth were completely motionless, had a flat dry landscape and an un-tilted axis. This, of course, is not the case; if it were, the weather would be much different. The local weather that impacts our daily lives...
NOAA
Noaa: Weather Prediction and Detection
Learn how the tools for weather prediction has changed in this article.
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Noaa: Nautical Chart
Can you make a chart that allows boats to travel the waterways safely? In this activity, students create their own nautical chart trying to accomplish specific tasks.
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The National Weather Service presents this site which explains the operations of the NWS. Learn about the Weather Forcast Offices, the River Forcast Office, NOAA Weather Radio, and more...including Career opportunities with the NWS.