Celebrate Earth Day with NASA Science Data and Standards-Aligned Lesson

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Celebrate Earth Day with NASA Science Data and Standards-Aligned Lessons

Earth Day, the day set aside each year to celebrate our planet and bring attention to the natural world, is on April 22, 2017. NASA is participating by inviting people to “adopt” a portion of Earth’s surface and see a snapshot of the satellite data scientists use to study Earth.

It's all part of the agency's "Adopt the Planet" campaign. And as education specialist Ota Lutz explains in the latest Teachable Moment from NASA/JPL Education, educators can use the campaign as a jumping-off point for lessons in reading data visualizations, graphing Earth science data and more.  

› Learn more on the Teachable Moments blog 

Or skip straight to the standards-aligned lessons at the links below:

• *NEW* Lesson: Earth Science Data Visualizations – How to Read a Heat Map – Students learn to read, interpret and compare “heat map” representations of Earth science data.
• Lesson: Graphing Sea Level Trends lesson – In this activity, students will use sea-level rise data to create models and compare short-term trends to long-term trends. They will then determine whether sea-level rise is occurring based on the data.
• Lesson: Graphing Global Temperature Trends – Students use global temperature data to create models and compare short-term trends to long-term trends.
• Lessons in Sea Level Rise – What is sea-level rise and how does it affect us? This "Teachable Moment" looks at the science behind sea-level rise and offers lessons and tools for teaching students about this important climate topic.
• Explore the entire collection of Earth science lessons from NASA/JPL Education