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EXPLORES! Teacher's Guide - The EXPLORES acronym stands for Exploring and Learning the Operations and Resources of Environmental Satellites. This program was developed by the state of Florida in 1992. The Teacher Resource page provides a history of meteorology with follow-up activities and child-friendly write-ups on the atmosphere, hydrology, and thermometers. The EXPLORES Home Page provides links to current and historic satellite data and to other weather sites.Learning Through Collaborative Visualization - This Northwestern University project is a truly innovative attempt to make science a real world activity. Students use current on-line data to predict weather, and to analyze long-term and short-term climate problems. It also supports a Geoscience Server with on-line tools, activities, and curricula based on current environmental concerns-such as, global warming and land-use management. CoVis stands for Collaborative Visualization. It is the authors' contention that scientists today solve problems in groups, using real time information, and computer graphic visualization of data. They have devised a project that allows students to do the same.
Public Use of Remote Sensing Data - This NASA project was developed to encourage public use of the tremendous amount of Earth Science data available on the Internet. It focuses particularly on the information gathered from the Earth Observing System and the Hubble telescope. These innovative projects involve coalitions with governmental agencies, academia, and industry.
The World Bank's Development Education Program - The World Bank's Development Education Program (DEP) designs tools and resources to help teachers and students, principally at the secondary school level, study -- and think critically about -- the complex social, economic, and environmental issues of sustainable development. This web site includes a range of classroom activities with maps, charts and graphs, data tables, and case studies. The activities progress from facilitating comprehension to reinforcing critical thinking skills, and they encourage student participation and group learning.