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Remote Sensing

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Ninth graders participate in a variety of activities designed to reinforce the concept of light and the electromagnetic spectrum. They research and analyze data from remotely sensed images. They present their findings in a PowerPoint presentation.

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electromagnetic spectrum, electromagnetism, spectrometers

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Grade
9th
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Science
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