Category: Investigations
TG Climate Change
{ GSS Teacher Guide Index } { All GSS Books } {} Overview [] Planning [] Objectives [] Assessment [] Resources Guides for each Chapter: 1 – 2 – 3– 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10Index of Investigations Overview Climate Change addresses the controversial question of how human […]
TG A New World View
{ GSS Teacher Guide Index } { All GSS Books } {} Objectives [] Assessment [] Resources Guides for each Chapter: 1 – 2 – 3– 4 – 5 – 6 Teaching Objectives A New World View introduces all of the other Guides in the Global Systems Scienceseries, and presents key ideas that thread through the entire […]
TG What Teaching Methods Should I Use?
{ GSS Teacher Guide Index } { All GSS Books } If the key to effective learning could be summed up in one word, it would probably be “interaction.” Getting your students to discuss the issues, to disagree and challenge each other, to collaborate on laboratory problems, and to help each other in homework activities […]
Teacher Guide for GSS
{ To GSS Books } TEACHER GUIDE CONTENTS Introduction 1. Map of the GSS Course 4. How Can I Customize GSS for My Students? 7. How is GSS Related to Science Education Reform? 2. What is Global Systems Science? 5. What Teaching Methods Should I Use? 8. How Was GSS Created? 3. What Will My […]
DEW4.3. Get Earth Images
{ Digital Earth Watch Contents } { All GSS Books } Skip to Summary of Earth Image Resources Relatively close-up images of Earth for monitoring of Earth systems are available through aerial photography (as seen in PicturePost in 3.1 Observe Changing Vegetation and investigation 4.1 Aerial Photography) In investigation 4.2 The View from 400 Miles […]
DEW4.2. What Can You See From 400 Miles Above the Earth?
{ Digital Earth Watch Contents } { All GSS Books } Looking at a satellite or aerial photograph requires us to think about how a view of something familiar, for example, of a school building viewed from the street, alters when seen from above. We experience this somewhat on the nightly news, when we see […]
DEW4.1. Aerial Photography
{ Digital Earth Watch Contents } { All GSS Books } Much of the material in this investigation is provided by Don McCasland of Blue Hill Observatory. The great benefit of kites, balloons, blimps and poles for aerial photography is that they allow relatively close up imagery of the subject. It is fun and educational […]
DEW4. Monitoring Earth Systems
Chapter 4 { Digital Earth Watch Contents } I. Forest Watch Forest Watch (https://forestwatch.sr.unh.edu/index.shtml) is a project in which data on tree characteristics are collected by teachers and students in grades K-12 as an integral and important component of research on forest ecosystems in New England. Each participating classroom is given study plot. Currently under […]
DEW2.4. How to Take the Best Digital Photos
{ Digital Earth Watch Contents } { All GSS Books } You need appreciation of art, technology, and science to be able to capture images with a digital camera to maximize the accuracy and minimize the uncertainty of the measurements. To improve how to use a camera to take digital images for scientific measurement, it […]
DEW3.3. Changes in Mt. St. Helens
{ Digital Earth Watch Contents } { All GSS Books } Use VegetationAnalysis software to observe and measure changes in Mt. St. Helens before and after the great eruption of 1980, AnalyzingDigitalImages software 3 images of Mt. St. Helens:MtStHelens_1973.jpegMtStHelens_1983.jpegMtStHelens_1996.jpeg The Tools 1. Launch the AnalyzingDigitalImages software and open the 3 images of Mt. St. Helens as time series. Calibration procedure […]