visualization lesson

GMOTT: Visualization: 

GMOTT: Visualization Alan Feldman

Credits: 

Credits This lesson is adapted from materials developed by TERC staff as part of the “Visualizing Earth” project (http://visearth.ucsd.edu), under funding from the National Science Foundation. The lesson has been presented by TERC staff as a Good Model of Teaching with Technology (GMOTT) Exemplar within projects MEET and NEIRTEC. Contact Alan Feldman at TERC for more information.

Goals: 

Goals Draw attention to the Earth as a system that includes atmosphere as well as land and water Develop skills at using visual information, including sketch maps Use technology resources to support learning through inquiry

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http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/comp/latest_cmoll.gif

National Geography StandardsGrades 5-8 (1994): 

National Geography Standards Grades 5-8 (1994)

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Sketch map #1

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Sketch map #2

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Note on photograph Face of the Earth™ This classic image was created in 1995 by ARC Science Simulations, using modeling technology. It is based on the view of the earth from space shown in the earlier photograph. See http://www.arcscience.com/face.htm for more information. The copyright for this image is owned by ARC Science Simulations (arcscience.com, 800-759-1642). It is used here under a license from this company to TERC. Conditions for use: This image may be used for the purposes of presenting a lesson to teachers or students based on the “Visualization” lesson described here. It may not be used for other purposes, nor may it be circulated.

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Note on photograph This photograph was taken on December 7, 1972 by the Apollo 17 crew traveling toward the moon. (Photograph AS17-148-22721 courtesy NASA-JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth.) To download this image – go to: http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=AS17&roll=148&frame=22721 "Image courtesy of Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center."

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Guidelines for Teaching and Learning with Geographic Visualizations Start with what students know; build on both their curiosity and intuition Provide opportunities for students to construct ideas individually collaboratively Allow time for students to explore and become oriented to the form and content of visualizations Provide resources for students to connect the contents of visualizations to alternative representations Focus on images and visualizations as a source of questions as well as evidence for conjectures Explore questions of what? And where ? Before addressing questions of how? And why?

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Earth and Moon Viewer http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html Global Montage Latest Image of Current Weather http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/comp/latest_cmoll.gif Global Montage Animation of Current Weather http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/comp/cmoll/cmoll.html GLOBE Program http://www.globe.gov Spacelink http://spacelink.nasa.gov SSEC Realtime Data http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/ Visualizing Earth http://visualizingearth.ucsd.edu/toc.html Geographic Visualization Web Sites