1 / 10

Locating Useable NASA (and other) Data for Earth and Space Science Inquiry

This presentation explores the best NASA data resources for engaging pre-service teachers in Earth and space science inquiry, discussing qualities that data resources should have for effective classroom use and providing tips and examples of data-rich teaching resources.

mclarke
Download Presentation

Locating Useable NASA (and other) Data for Earth and Space Science Inquiry

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Locating Useable NASA (and other) Datafor Earth and Space Science Inquiry • What and where are the best NASA (and other) data resources for engaging pre-service teachers in Earth and space science inquiry? • How can these data resources be used for inquiry?

  2. What Qualities Should Data Resources Have for Effective Classroom Use? Best Practice Tips: Get your audience involved using their experience; build ownership.

  3. What Qualities Should Data Resources Have for Effective Classroom Use? • Easy to find • Easy to access – (relatively) simple user interface • Easy to manipulate – so students can do something meaningful with them; visual data, graphic data (Excel) • Well-sampled (in space, time, etc.) • Elicits scientific questions that can be addressed through further investigation • Other qualities?

  4. What NASA - or other - Data Resources Have You Found Useful? • Jot down a few Earth or space science data resources that you think lend themselves to open inquiry • Earth • Solar System • Beyond • Share as we go! CD! Best Practice Tips: Get your audience involved using their experience; build ownership.

  5. Here’s What We FoundEarth … A Work in Progress • NASA Earth Observatory Data and Images • Earth Impact Data Base • IRIS Seismic Data • TOMS Ozone Data (A little more advanced) • USGS Real Time Water Data • And More! • And Links to Data-Rich Teaching Resources: • Student Observation Network • Discovering Plate Boundaries CD! DISCLAIMER: ALL of these data sets will require some playing around to get what you want … but they are nearer to useable than much of what’s out there …. Other Datasets? Best Practice Tips: Poweryak at your audience … in a monotone …

  6. Here’s What We FoundSolar System … A Work in Progress • Mars Phoenix Lander Images • Solar System Simulator – more than Galilean moons! • Solar Activity – Sunspots, Tracking a Solar Storm, Solar Images • Cratering databases (planets and moons) • Project Spectra @ LASP – uses planetary spectra • SDSS SkyServer – plots planets and asteroids in sky. CD! Other Datasets?

  7. Here’s What We FoundAnd Beyond … A Work in Progress CD! • Globe at Night • SDSS SkyServer – images and spectra of stars and galaxies  star types, galaxy types, redshifts  Hubble Law, cluster properties • Hubble Deep Field folder on CD • Amazing Space – “Hubble Deep Field Academy” and “Galaxy Hunter” (also uses HDFs but with more statistics). • US National Virtual Observatory -- oodles of data but hard to use • Extra-Solar Planets Dataset • Stellarium – more sophisticated planetarium program Other Datasets?

  8. Now It’s Your Turn!Launch into Some Open-Ended Inquiry! • Browse the data CD • Select 2 data sets that relate to what you teach and align with your state science standards • Crater data base and impacts = natural hazard • Sunspot activity = characteristics of the sun • Compare and contrast these 2 data sets re: desired qualities • Identify scientific questions that the data set(s) can address • What is the relationship between sunspot activity and Earth’s temperature? • How does cratering size and density on the Moon compare to that on Mars? • Dig In! Use the Electronic Poster Slides PowerPoint on the CD to present your results (recall the disclaimer!).

  9. What Did You Think of the Resources? Were they easy to find? Were they easy to access – simple user interface? Were they easy to manipulate – visually or graphically? Did they adequately sample the parameter space? Did they elicit fruitful scientific questions? Other qualities?

  10. Questions? Best Practice Tips: Allow time to clarify discussion; be responsive to audience.

More Related