EDUCATION - Class Activities
There are a variety of activities available below including Make Your Own
El Niño in the Classroom which provides a hands-on demonstration of
the El Niño effect using water, mineral oil, food coloring, and a hair dryer in less than 5 minutes.
The El Niño Skit is for primary grades and shows students how an El Niño "works"
using from five to seven students. A more advanced activity, Making 3-D models of TOPEX/Poseidon
Sea Surface Topography Images involves cutting out layers of foam-type poster
boards and assembling and painting them to match two TOPEX/Poseidon satellite images of
sea-surface height.
Also, the Classroom Activities section from the Visit to an Ocean Planet CD-ROM have been included
here. They provide activities to demonstrate scale and structure, measurement, energy, systems and interactions,
process and change, and human interactions against climate, oceans, and life. These activities were provided
by various educational organizations and educators.
Each of the links below
is given an "Audience Rating" to help you can find just the material you're looking for.
Audience: T = Teacher materials, G = General public, Kids = K-Gr 8, Y = Young adults and K-12, U = Undergrads, S = Scientists and Graduate students
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Audience
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Material
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Contributor
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G
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E/PO stories and articles.
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OST E/PO team
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T, Kids
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A Jason-1 Oceanic Adventure - Voyage on the High Seas - a board game with
information/classroom activities on back. PDF version available on-line.
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TOPEX/Poseidon and Jason-1 Outreach Team, JPL
the Space Place
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T
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Classroom activities in Oceans, Climate
and Life from the Visit to an Ocean Planet CD-ROM in PDF format.
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TOPEX/Poseidon Project Office, JPL
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T
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Making 3-D models of TOPEX/Poseidon Sea Surface Topography Images
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Bob Perry and Robin Baltrushes, Malibu High School, UCLA OceanGLOBE
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All, T
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El Niño demonstration -
see how an an El Niño works. Using common household items, this
simple demo makes the phenomena understandable. (PDF
version also available)
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Kelly Perry (JPL)
Johan Berlin (Raytheon)
James Kendall (JPL)
Ruby Krishnamurti (Florida State University)
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T
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El Niño Skit - for primary grades.
(PDF version also available)
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Annie Richardson, JPL
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Kids, Y, T
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Ocean World
- on-line resources for educators, information about useful books,
links to lesson plans and classroom activities
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Texas A&M University
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T
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Resources for
Educators in Oceanography and Earth Science
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TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1 Outreach Team
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T,U
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Teaching
the Physics and Math of Oceanography Using Satellite Data
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University of Washington/ Northwest
School in Seattle
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T
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On-line tutorial - the basics of altimetry and
TOPEX/Poseidon
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TOPEX/Poseidon Project Office, JPL
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T
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Links to Education web pages and
more
education web pages
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TOPEX/Poseidon Project Office, JPL and
Texas A&M University
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T
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Earth Education Products List for JPL (PDF)
- educator materials for Earth Sciences
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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All
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TOPEX/Poseidon orbit visualization
- TOPEX/Poseidon in action
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University of Colorado
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All
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Educational Outreach at JPL
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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