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Data Lens - Exploring Earth's Visual Stories

Data Lens activities equip teachers with tools to help their students engage with and understand complex scientific data. Informed by Visual Thinking Strategies, each exercise includes a timely global map that can stand alone or open a discussion into a relevant classroom unit of study. When used regularly, these activities may help to increase data literacy skills in your classroom.

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Data Lens - Exploring Earth's Visual Stories

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Surface Air Temperature Forecast - Climate Zones

This week focuses on a winter weather forecast of air temperature, above both land and ocean, and compares two maps of different times of the same day to explore climate zones and diurnal effects.

Land Surface Temperature - Arctic Blast

This week focuses an Arctic Blast winter storm in terms of land temperature, and compares two maps from different seasons to compare the seasonal changes.

Earth at Night - Human Impact

This week focuses on data collected of Earth at night and different ways to interpret changes in nighttime lights.

Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly- El Niño

Sea Surface Temperature anomalies show the difference between current temperature from average temperature or “normal,” which allows you to see phenomena such as El Niño and La Niña.