Teachable Moment – NASA's Eyes on Extreme Weather

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Title: Teachable Moment – NASA's Eyes on Extreme Weather

Teachable Moment - NASA's Eyes on Extreme Weather

An extreme weather event is something that falls outside the realm of normal weather patterns. It can range from superpowerful hurricanes to torrential downpours to extended hot dry weather and more. Extreme weather events are, themselves, troublesome, but the effects of such extremes, including damaging winds, floods, drought and wildfires, can be devastating.

In the latest Teachable Moment from NASA/JPL Edu, education specialist Ota Lutz describes the causes and effects of extreme weather events and highlights how NASA studies them – and students can, too. Find out what role our changing climate is playing in extreme weather, then explore resources and standards-aligned lessons to get students using and analyzing NASA data on their own!

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Related Lessons and Activities

Explore the resources and standards-aligned lessons below to get students analyzing local weather patterns, understanding wildfire monitoring and modeling global climate!

	Teachable Moment - NASA Mission Gets the View on Earth’s Water Resources from Space – Explore the water cycle and its effects on communities through the lens of a NASA satellite designed to track the movement of water around the globe.
	Lesson: Precipitation Towers – Modeling Weather Data (Grades K-5) – This lesson uses stacking cubes as a way to graph precipitation data, comparing the precipitation averages and seasonal patterns for several locations.
	Lesson: The Sky and Dichotomous Key (Grades K-3) – Students learn about cloud types to be able to predict inclement weather. They will then identify areas in the school affected by severe weather and develop a solution to ease the impacts of rain, wind, heat or sun.
	Teachable Moment: The Science of Wildfires – As wildfires burn over larger areas and longer portions of the year, NASA scientists are finding new ways to study their impacts on our climate and communities.
	Lesson: Fired Up Over Math – Studying Wildfires from Space (Grades 3-12) – Students learn how scientists assess wildfires using remote sensing and solve related math problems, appropriate for various grade levels.
	Lesson: Pixels on Fire (Grades 4-8) – Students use mobile devices and computers to learn about remote sensing and satellite data to determine when and where wildfires have started.
	Lesson: Graphing Global Temperature Trends (Grades 5-12) – Students use global temperature data to create models and compare short-term trends to long-term trends.
	Teachable Moment: The Science of Earth's Rising Seas – How do we know sea-level rise is happening and what’s causing it? Learn about the NASA satellites studying the problem and get students exploring the data through math.
	Lesson: Graphing Sea-Level Trends (Grades 5-12) – 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.
	Teachable Moment: Celebrate Earth Day with NASA Science Data – NASA uses a fleet of satellites and science instruments to study our changing climate. Here’s how students can use that NASA data to do Earth science of their own.
	Lesson: How to Read a Heat Map (Grades 4-12) – Students learn to read, interpret and compare “heat map” representations of Earth science data.
	Lesson: Build a Satellite – Students will use the engineering design process to design, build, test and improve a model satellite intended to investigate the surface of a planet.
	Lesson Collection: Climate – Explore a collection of standards-aligned lessons all about Earth's climate.
	Slideshow: The Change of Seasons – Views from Space – See how seasonal changes affect our planet.
	Slideshow: Take the Pi in the Sky Challenge – Can you use pi to solve these stellar math problems faced by NASA scientists and engineers?
	Project: Make a Cloud in a Bottle – Have you ever wondered how clouds form? In this activity, you can make your own cloud to see for yourself!
	Video Series: NASA's Earth Minute – Learn how NASA studies Earth's weather and climate in these one minute videos!