Science On a Sphere
Why Use SOSx in Education?
Why Use SOS Explorer® in the Classroom?
Permalink to Why Use SOS Explorer® in the Classroom?SOS Explorer® (SOSx) and the SOS Explorer® Mobile application are tools that can be used in many ways. Here we describe why you should be using SOSx in your classroom and the skills and topics that can be covered.
Justification
Permalink to Justification- Data visualization allows analysis and understanding of complex data
- Data visualization helps bridge understanding of observations versus computer modeling
- Data visualization lets you see things that would otherwise go unnoticed — trends, behavior patterns, curious relationships
- Big data is an emerging trend in — marketing, sales, business, science, customer relations, technology…
What Skills are Practiced using SOSx?
Permalink to What Skills are Practiced using SOSx?- Data literacy
- Reading colorbars & legends
- Determining trends
- Estimating values
- Increasing scientific literacy
- Comparing data
- Geographic awareness
What topics can be covered with SOSx Datasets?
Permalink to What topics can be covered with SOSx Datasets?- Earth systems
- Environmental impacts
- Atmospheric chemistry
- Climate change
- Plate Tectonics
- Weather
- Seasons
- Satellites
- Geography
- Land cover
- Solar System
- Space Weather