Math Activities in the Earth Sciences at the 2009 NSTA Regional Conference in Phoenix
Windows to the Universe staff presented a workshop titled "Math Activities in the Earth Sciences Using Interactive Multimedia from Windows to the Universe" at the NSTA Regional Conferences in Phoenix on Friday, December 4, 2009. Three activities were presented at this workshop:
- Virtual Ballooning to Explore Earth's Atmosphere
- Graphing Sea Ice Extent in the Arctic and Antarctic
- The Very, Very Simple Climate Model
This page provides links to write-ups of the hands-on activities and links to supporting resources (web pages, images, animations, etc.) related to the activities.
Virtual Ballooning
- Virtual Ballooning Activity Writeup
- Virtual Ballooning Software
- Background Information about Earth's Atmosphere
Graphing Sea Ice Extent
- Graphing Sea Ice Extent Activity Writeup
- Interactive: Compare Images of Arctic Sea Ice Extent Side-by-side
- Animation: Annual Variation in Sea Ice Extent in the Northern Hemisphere
- Interactive: Compare Images of Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Side-by-side
- Animation: Annual Variation in Sea Ice Extent in the Southern Hemisphere
The Very, Very Simple Climate Model
- Very Simple Climate Model Activity Writeup
- The Very, Very Simple Climate Model Software
- Notes about the Very, Very Simple Climate Model
- background info: What Is a Climate Model?
- background info: How Climate Models Work
- background info: Accuracy and Uncertainty in Climate Models
- background info: Climate and Global Change
- background info: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
- Background info from our "Climate Discovery" online course sequence (more in-depth, but may be harder to follow outside of the context of the course):