Resource Room->Teaching->Instructional Resources
Assemble an Inquiry - A tool developed by the S2TASK Project that allows you to create a customized GLOBE inquiry unit designed around "engage, explore, explain, extend, and evaluate" for middle school or high school, based on a concept, standard, protocol or instrument of your choice. Aligns all GLOBE materials from the Teacher's Guide and other resources with the National Science Education Standards and the Benchmarks for Science Literacy.Cloud Identification Quiz - If you would like expert instruction in cloud identification, this Cloud Exploration designed by Kevin Frender at NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center and Dr. Ron Holle from NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory gives students and teachers expert guidance in cloud identification and many rehearsals of different cloud pictures so that they can develop proficiency online. Dr. Holle's cloud photographs are also featured in the Audubon Field Guide to North American Weather. Students can look at multiple slides of the same cloud type, access an introduction as to how they are categorized, and then take a quiz which automatically develops an error matrix for participants in order to help figure the points of confusion. This is a wonderful way to train observers and to have students think about the difficulties with categorization.
Computers for Learning - "Computers for Learning" is a program designed to donate surplus federal computers to schools and educational non-profits, giving preference to those with the greatest need. This new program is designed to take computers off the storage shelf and put them into classrooms. They are all machines capable of Internet connection. Shipping is free and volunteers are available to help with set up if necessary. A wonderful opportunity to develop or enhance technology in schools.
Contrail Education Resources - For those teachers wishing to teach students how to observe and study contrails, Dr. Lin Chambers of NASA Langley encourages the use of this website containing lesson plans, contrail identification charts in multiple languages, articles and papers on the subject and other activities teachers can use in the classroom.
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Math and Science Education - This site, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, provides an outstanding guide to online and offline resources in K-12 science and math.
GLOBE Geography Quiz
Institute for Learning Technologies-Columbia University
LandSat Image Identification Quiz - Ted Habermann from NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center and David Brown from NASA's Observatorium have used Public Domain Landsat Images from the NASA Observatorium as a basis for an online, in classroom activity that allows students to become familiar with how the earth looks from space. From Morro Bay to Moscow, students can look at satellite images of famous cities and land forms from space. This is not only fascinating "sky geography" but it helps students understand what "remote sensing" reveals about our world and why it is so important. It will assist students who are interpreting their own GLOBE landsat images in placing what they are seeing in a larger context. Students will become more aware of the features that can be revealed from above. They will also take a trip around the planet and think about connections they might make with other countries participating in GLOBE.
Min/Max Thermometer Drill
National Science Teachers Association
The Schools and Libraries Universal Service Fund - The Schools and Libraries Universal Service Fund, popularly known as the "E-Rate," was created as part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 to ensure that all eligible schools and libraries in the United States have affordable access to modern telecommunications and information services. All K-12 schools (public and private) and public libraries qualify for the program and receive discounts according to their level of economic disadvantage and their location-rural or urban. Universal Service Fund discounts can be applied to a school or library's internal connections, telecommunications services, and Internet access.