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Photo Caption: Atlantis blasts off from Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, 2:28 p.m. EST, November 16, 2009. This is a Teachable Moments in the News QuickLinks Post. It connects a breaking news story or event with this Blog’s existing powerful library of Posts and Resource Pages. The cited Posts and Pages p...rovide a deep understanding of concepts in the earth and space sciences that are relevant to the news...Read More
Posted:2009-11-19 18:19:25 GMT
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Voyage: A Scale Model Solar System for Your Community
The Voyage exhibition was permanently installed in Kansas City, Missouri, on October 10, 2008. The exhibition is located along Baltimore Avenue, from the Power & Light Building to historic Union Station. Voyage provides an experiential thread along a 1 mile path through downtown Kansas City.
Voyage is provided as a ...gift to Kansas City by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, which also commissioned two new stanchions for the dwarf planet Eris and one dedicated to the Explorers among us.
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Voyage is provided as a ...gift to Kansas City by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, which also commissioned two new stanchions for the dwarf planet Eris and one dedicated to the Explorers among us.
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Voyage: A Scale Model Solar System for Your Community
The Voyage exhibition was permanently installed in Kansas City, Missouri, on October 10, 2008. The exhibition is located along Baltimore Avenue, from the Power & Light Building to historic Union Station. Voyage provides an experiential thread along a 1 mile path through downtown Kansas City.
Voyage is provided as a ...gift to Kansas City by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, which also commissioned two new stanchions for the dwarf planet Eris and one dedicated to the Explorers among us.
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Voyage is provided as a ...gift to Kansas City by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, which also commissioned two new stanchions for the dwarf planet Eris and one dedicated to the Explorers among us.
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Voyage: A Scale Model Solar System for Your Community Today's IYA2009 podcast was sponsored by Voyage!
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This post is a Teachable Moment in the News and a Dr. Jeff Speaks Out. It’s all about the nature of education. Those loud voices espousing that Global Warming is not real, or that it is certainly not from human activity, are swaying those that are willing to listen. The shift in public perception is stunning and sca...ry. We’re doing a bad job of informing and educating with regard to climate change. The aim should be conceptual understanding, not just the streaming of disconnected scientific conclusions as memorizable nuggets. Education is about ownership in understanding—not reporting in the conventional sense, and not political spin. Just like the researcher who is trained to frame ideas about observed natural phenomena and put those ideas to the test, true education is about the learner being presented with information that he or she can process, question, and internalize as their own conclusions. I think there is a vast block of the population that has not made up its mind, that is willing to listen, and that wants (even yearns for) ownership in the process of climate education. More generally, where can a public living in the age of high technology and facing global-scale problems turn to for EDUCATION at the dawn of the 21st century? Education is also not about scientists coming down from the mountain of knowledge and gracing us with their presence to pontificate. Education is about scientists walking among us, recognizing the public can truly understand if the conceptual bridges to the familiar are made available—a public that overwhelmingly recognizes the power of science and engineering. It’s about reversing an important relationship. The scientific community must SERVE public understanding, not pronounce and assume the public will go along for the ride. We’re getting a lot of this in climate education. What it does is cause alienation not education. Here’s what I mean in concrete and likely familiar terms. How many remember this—a professor that periodically comes from the research lab to teach a science course for undergrads? The room is vast, and he or she proceeds to dump information on the board at an astounding pace. Here’s the oxymoron in plain sight—it’s a SCIENCE class, and the professor is LECTURING—defined as a one-way flow of information from the mountain of knowledge. It’s an experience that bears no resemblance to SCIENCE—which is a process of exploration owned by the researcher (in this case you’d hope it would be owned by the STUDENT), it is therefore certainly not EDUCATION, and the professor ought to know better. The professor should recognize that standing in front of that room is an honor, and he/she SERVES the students. The university should also know better and eradicate the concept of “Lecture Halls.” (University Presidents—how much are your students paying your institution for an education?) So we train researchers to talk to the public that way, and we teach students that science, hence science education, is and should be characterized by the one way flow of information. I’m sorry but I’ve got a problem with this. And where are the waves and waves of public educators? Where are those that are gifted and skilled at helping researchers take the science and turn it into something understandable, and personally relevant, and important? I’m not talking about reporters. I’m not talking about reporting. I’m not talking about an informational piece on climate change on the front page. Does this nation even have “public educators” as a profession? Well, yes in museums and science centers, but they are typically targeting their collections and programs. I’m talking about public education as a profession in a far broader sense. A profession that can take on 21st century media and social networks as venues for education. As a basic example, how many media outlets have a science educator covering the news? Regarding climate change, the level of misinformation is stunning, and it is presented in a manner that often seems reasonable to folks. The other side is apparently very good at leveraging the lack of climate education to their advantage. And that’s I think why we’re loosing the battle. I also recognize that folks can take me to the mat by saying “OK, you talk the talk, but do you walk the walk.” Well, here are some hopefully PERCEPTION-CHANGING climate education posts at Blog on the Universe where I try to practice what I preach— Myth Buster: Carbon Dioxide is Just a Trace Gas Big Deal! http://bit.ly/1HN3VE A Day in the Life of the Earth: Understanding Human-Induced Climate Change http://bit.ly/2uhzdO How many more people on Earth in a day, a week, a month, a year? (Stunning) People, People Everywhere http://bit.ly/b6APK The biomass of the Human race must be huge to impact climate! Uh … nope. A Pound of Ants and the Capabilities of Intelligent Biomass http://bit.ly/HJqIC Are we bottom dwellers under a seemingly limitless ocean of air? The Business Trip http://bit.ly/gIvGM On the fragility of the atmosphere. Apples and You http://bit.ly/p6YNs Dr. Jeff Goldstein Center Director National Center for Earth and Space Science Education USA Read More
Posted:2009-10-26 19:21:17 GMT
Photo caption: CO2 concentration in the atmosphere in parts per million over the last 400,000 years. Credit: NOAA. This post is a Teachable Moment in the News and a Dr. Jeff Speaks Out. Here’s how the argument goes—and do it justice by reading it out loud, and kinda yelling whenever you see words in CAPS. “Hey, ...you’re worried about CO2 going up because of human activity and causing an increase in global temperature?! GIVE ME A BREAK! It’s only a TRACE gas, currently making up only 0.038% of the atmosphere, or 380 parts per MILLION!! SO WHAT if we increase it to a WHOPPING 1,000 parts per million (ppm) by 2100. Then it would ONLY be 0.1% of the atmosphere. BIG DEAL! You’re preaching the sky is falling, and ANYONE WITH HALF A BRAIN can see that this is just SILLY! YOU must be part of some Scientists-in-Need-of-Federal-Funds—Green Business—Government (SiNoFF-GB-G) conspiracy that’s bent on destroying everything that is good. TAKE A WALK YOU ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST IN NEED OF A CAUSE. Why … you’re likely a paid operative of the SINoFF-GB-G machine!” Ummm.. has anybody else heard this argument, or is it just me? Here’s my rebuttal (and you’re still using the CAPS-means-shouting thing.) The point of climate scientists is that CO2 is NOT just a trace gas. IT IS VITALLY IMPORTANT FOR LIFE ON EARTH. It is both used and produced by life. If its level were so small to be a worthless consideration, then, hey—let’s take it all away, drop it to 0%, AND WATCH THE MAJORITY OF LIFE ACROSS THE PLANET CEASE TO EXIST. A complex biological system like THE ENTIRE PLANET EARTH reflects a finely tuned balance, with regulating systems that keep conditions within acceptable limits for life—EVEN AT THE LEVEL OF TRACE GASES (barring catastrophic events like an asteroid impact, or super volcano, or say humans popping up in an instant and burning everything they can find in just 150 years). For those that espouse the view above, my first tendancy is to go into a discussion of climate change modeling and the importance of even trace gases held within acceptable ranges. You could point out that if even trace gas concentrations are pushed beyond narrow limits the system goes out of balance—even past a tipping point where it moves to a new equilibrium position not conducive for vast numbers of species currently inhabiting the planet. You could also point out that life itself operates within narrow acceptable regimes for, e.g., temperature. Absolute zero is -460 °F (-273 °C). The surface of the Sun (exceedingly cold by cosmic standards) is 10,300 °F (5,700 °C). That’s a temperature range of 10,800 °F (6,000 °C)! But a human—YOU—has to exist within a temperature range of just 100 °F (55 °C). Here’s a way to look at it. If you represent the range in temperature from absolute zero to that of the solar surface as a 10-foot ruler, you’re existence is constrained to the width of 1-inch (for you metric types, if the larger range is represented by one meter, then you’re assigned just one centimeter of living space.) YOU LIVE ON THE HAIRY EDGE. YOU JUST AREN’T AWARE YOU LIVE ON THE HAIRY EDGE. You depend on Earth’s regulatory systems to keep you in the happy place. But alas, I can’t use these arguments, because folks often can’t get past the it’s just a trace gas thing. Detailed global observations over time, careful analysis of the geological record, sophisticated climate models projecting into the future—”it’s all voodoo, it’s just THEORY, it’s a bunch of scientists that don’t know what they are talking about. And there’s a very small percentage of scientists that AGREE WITH ME so THEY must be right.” Ok, fine. So let’s do this far closer to home. And see if there isn’t something strangely familiar about this. 1. The amount of alcohol in the blood is defined by the Blood Alcohol Level (BAC.) If someone has just a little to drink, and they’re BAC is between 0.01% and 0.029%, they will appear outwardly normal. What does this mean? It means that the alcohol content in the blood is between 95 and 270 PARTS PER MILLION. It is a TRACE chemical in the blood. Now you increase the BAC to 0.11% to 0.20% and this person looses gross motor control, staggers when walking, and their speech is slurred. What does that mean? You’ve increased the alcohol concentration to at least 1,050 PARTS PER MILLION. Just by increasing this TRACE chemical by a factor of 4 (THAT’S FOUR) leads to system-wide imbalance in a human being—A COMPLEX BIOLOGICAL SYSTEM. What? The alcohol shouldn’t have been there in the first place? That’s different than CO2? Well this is a ROCK-SOLID example of systemic imbalace due to a 4-fold increase in a TRACE chemical. But fine, let’s go to example 2. 2. Say … hypoglycemia. We should all be able to agree that glucose is absolutely essential for body function. A normal glucose level averages about 1,500 PARTS PER MILLION in the blood. Now this one is really dramatic. If you DECREASE blood glucose by a factor of 10 to about 150 PARTS PER MILLION—then … COMA, and possibly …. well you get the picture. Anyone who can deny that changes in TRACE chemicals impact complex biological systems after just these 2 of COUNTLESS examples is not reachable through reason and logic. Now back to Earth. JUST BECAUSE CO2 IS A TRACE GAS DOES NOT IMPLY IT CAN’T CAUSE A GLOBAL-SCALE IMBALANCE IN CLIMATE. This myth is busted. Take a look at the graph at the top. It tracks CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. Over the last 400,000 YEARS, CO2 concentration never went above the dotted line. It was typically 230 parts per million, and maximally 300 parts per million (ppm). But just since 1950, it has gone from about 280 to 380 ppm! In the graph below, climate models indicate by the year 2100 the concentration will increase to 550 to 1,000 ppm! If we assume the average climate model projection, the Industrial Age (Age of Fossil Fuels) by 2100 will have increased CO2 concentration by a factor of 2.5 over the highest levels seen in the last 400,000 years, and by a factor of 3.5 over what was typical over the last 400,000 years! Surely worry is warranted. We know we are changing the atmospheric composition, we know that global warming is real, and the vast consensus of scientists that specialize in this field feel that it is highly likely the global warming is due to how we are changing the atmosphere. I’ve finished my rant. I hope many reading this have some new ammunition. But those that don’t want to accept global warming as human induced will now take the argument to the next level—increased CO2 does not lead to increased global temperature. Sounds like I’ve got the topic for a new post. Stay tuned to this same Bat Channel. Alfred … have you been standing over my shoulder the whole time? -dj Photo Credit: Past and future CO2 atmospheric concentrations, United Nations Environmental Programme, cartographer/designer Philippe Rekacewicz, Emmanuelle Bournay, UNEP/GRID-Arendal Read More
Posted:2009-10-24 07:09:39 GMT
Voyage: A Scale Model Solar System for Your Community
Today's IYA2009 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast about the MESSENGER's recent flyby of Mercury was sponsored by Voyage! More resources can be found at Dr. Jeff's blog on the Universe http://blogontheuniverse.org/2009/10/04/
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A great deal has been happening at the Blog this past month, so I thought I’d give you an update. MESSENGER Flyby of Mercury, and Ongoing Updates through Orbital Insertion in March 2011 We had a great time at Mission Control covering the MESSENGER flyby of Mercury live via Twitter September 29 through October 1. J...udging from the tens of thousands of page views that week, lots of folks were going along for the ride. Cool! That’s why we did it! I recently put up a MESSENGER Updates Post which will be providing ongoing updates through MESSENGER’s orbital insertion at Mercury in March 18, 2011. If you’ve not seen the Post yet, you’ll be surprised at how many updates there are already, and the other cool resources provided there, including a play-by-play of the nail-biting in Mission Control when we lost signal from the spacecraft near close approach, and the Twitter Archives of us Voices of Mission Control which allow you to relive the experience. Note the MESSENGER Updates Post can always be accessed from the TMN QuickLinks Box at upper right. Over the next 18 months, you’re also invited to use the MESSENGER Ideas for Lessons in the Classroom, and Educational Resources Post which addresses the nature of human exploration, the exploration of the Solar System, and the exploration of Mercury, with powerful essays, activities, and lessons. A Presentation on the Universe For Your School or Community? This week I was honored to accept an invitation to deliver the Keynote Address at the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Conference in Kansas City, Missouri, October 28-30, 2010. On August 20, 2009, I had the privilege of giving the Keynote to 600 secondary science teachers in the Houston area at the Cypress-Fairbanks ISD Professional Development Day. And my staff and I are gearing up to deliver 12 Family Science Night evenings this Winter at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum on the National Mall, and at the Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles Airport in Virginia (think Night at the Museum 2—the Movie). Each evening is for 450 students, parents and their teachers from DC-area schools. We also conduct these powerful family learning programs across the nation. Hey, if you’d like to explore a program for families at your school—or across your entire community; a special program just for teachers and their families; or a professional development program for teachers of science, then contact me HERE. All these programs embrace the same philosophy as this Blog—Inspire … then Educate, and Conceptual Understanding at an Emotional Level. Here’s a list of my personal talks, and comments from attendees. Drs. Timothy Livengood and Harri Vanhala, also researchers at the Center, are available as well. The Blog on the Universe Legion of Ambassadors We’ll soon be launching the Blog on the Universe LEGION OF AMBASSADORS program. We’re looking for about 100 Tweeps interested in becoming official Ambassadors, helping us get word out on new Blog posts via their PLNs, and providing me with new direction for the Blog. The Ambassadors will have a formal affiliation with the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education, which oversees national initiatives like the Voyage National Program, (see Voyage model Solar Systems in different communities at our Facebook page photoalbum), Journey through the Universe, the MESSENGER Educator Fellows Program, Family Science Night at the National Air and Space Museum, and Blog on the Universe. The Center also conducts planetary atmospheres research through a Cooperative Agreement with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Ambassadors will have an official section here at Blog on the Universe, where they will be listed with their photos and links to their websites, blogs, and social networks. Ambassadors will get an e-template for an official business card, and a press release for local media. (I think there may be a decoder ring involved too.) Are you a Legionnaire? Quick Links Feature and Teachers Toolbox The new Teachable Moments in the News (TMN) QuickLinks Box in the upper right corner was launched this month. It is tracking current news stories and events that can be made into teachable moments through the use of this Blog’s existing library of Posts and Resource Pages. The idea is to provide conceptual understanding for current science. You’ll also note that the TMN QuickLinks feature, together with the Teachers Lesson Planner are tools found in the new Teachers Toolbox. These pages are all found in the right column under “Teachers Toolbox”. UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, December 2009 We will soon be putting up a countdown clock for the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen December 7-18, 2009. I recently wrote a Post about how critical I feel this meeting is for the future of the planet Earth we know. On that Post I pulled together an overview of all the climate change posts to date here at the Bog. These are PERSPECTIVE-CHANGING POSTS on the fragility of the atmosphere, the impact of technology, the rate of population growth, and humanity’s impact on climate. I’d love to see these Posts put to work in the 2 months leading up to the Copenhagen Summit. Take a look. BotU Banners. Widgets, and Flyers I think Blog on the Universe is gaining a following even though it was only launched in May. It’s now showing up in Blogrolls and as links at websites. I’ve had a number of requests for banners, a flyer, a Blog description for incorporation into an emailing—even a request for widgets. They are all now available at the Blog’s Banners, Widgets & Flyers Page. That’ it for now! -dj Read More
Posted:2009-10-19 23:04:18 GMT
This post is a Dr. Jeff’s Weekly Challenge and a Driving with Jordi. Photo caption: the Hawaiian Islands, with the Big Island of Hawai’i at lower right. The Big Island was formed from five volcanoes including Mauna Kea. True color from the NASA Terra satellite, May 27, 2003. The solution to this Challenge will b...e posted Monday, October 26, 2009. It’s a new school year, and I couldn’t wait to get back into the routine of my morning drive with Jordi. I missed our daily conversations about Earth, space and everything else in his known universe while we navigate the fabled Washington, DC, Beltway to his school. Sure, we spent lots of great family time together over the summer at the pool club, and in New York. But there was something magical about taking 30 minutes of dull driving each morning and turning it into a free-for-all ‘Jordi where do you want to take the conversation today?’ To help you picture it, I’m always driving with my cup of coffee, glancing in the rear view mirror—waiting. He’s usually staring forward, transfixed. You’d almost think that my now 7-year-old is just zoning—except that he’s got that slight squint which tells me wheels are turning furiously inside. Then BOOM! He launches our great morning adventure with a simple, elegant, deep thought. So last week, like always, just out of the blue— “Daddy, how many Empire State Buildings tall is the tallest mountain?” Today he wanted daddy to help him conceptualize the height of a really tall mountain. He wanted to use a familiar ruler. Whenever we take a family a drive to New York (my Mom and sister are an hour north of the City) we always take time to go into Manhattan. We bike the Park or along the Hudson, eat in Little Italy making sure to get a box of the best pastries in the City at La Bella Ferrara—and then drive up 34th Street where we stop the car and let Jordi look straight up to the top of the Empire State Building. He LOVES that building. To him, it just touches the sky. I know exactly how he feels. For me it was always the World Trade Center. So for Jordi, if one wanted to measure the size of the tallest mountain, using the Empire State Building as a ruler was surely the way to go. Cool kid. (Proud daddy.) Not too long ago, I actually wrote a Post that used the height of the Empire State Building, so I remembered it was about 1,500 feet tall. I also know something about the height of mountains. My planetary atmospheres research took me to the telescopes on the summit of Mauna Kea so many times that I could be a tour guide for the Big Island of Hawai’i. On the summit I liked walking over to the U.S. Geological Survey marker identifying the highest point on Earth in the Pacific. But the short walk at 13,803 feet (4,207 meters) above sea level always left me out of breath. On one trip to the marker I had a friend take a picture of me next to it, with the clouds in the background a mile below us. I love to show that photo when I talk to kids and families and tell them that’s Jeff on top of the World (it is!) But before going ‘UP’ with Jordi (something I suspect that’s much like what Carl Fredricksen felt flying off with Russell the wilderness explorer), I decided to go ‘down’ (because good stories have to build to a crescendo.) So we first talked about the Grand Canyon in Arizona, a hole in the ground that left me awestruck when I visited many years ago. At its deepest, the Grand Canyon is 6,000 ft (1,830 m) measured vertically from the rim of the Canyon to the Colorado River below. “Jordi, imagine you’re walking toward the rim and see this really large spike sticking up 100 feet above you. That’s about the height of a 10-story building. As you get closer to the rim and start to look down, you see the spike extends another 100 feet below you, and it’s attached to the top of a BIG building sitting in the Canyon. It’s the antenna mast …. of the Empire State Building.” He thought that was just so cool! Then shock set in when I told him this was just the top of a stack of FOUR Empire State Buildings with the base of the first sitting in the Colorado River! BIG canyon. Then we went ‘up’, going back to his mountain question. Everybody thinks the tallest mountain on Earth is Mt. Everest and so did Jordi. So I went with the flow. “Jordi, Mt. Everest is about 29,000 feet above sea level. The Empire State Building is about 1,500 feet tall so, you’d need (daddy calculating in his head while driving) nearly …. TWENTY of them, one on top of the other, to get to the top of Everest.” Then … Jordi says, “20?!! 20?!!! … (5 second delay)…. 20?!!!!!” He was jaw—dropping stunned. In his mind that Building was huge! But How Big is Big? is all relative. Now that I’ve got the internet and a calculator right here, I can do it more precisely. The summit of Everest is 29,029 feet (8,848 m) above sea level, and the Empire State Building is 1,472 feet (449 m) to the top of the antenna mast. So Everest is 19.7 Empire State Buildings Tall. Ok, just getting you primed for your challenge. You didn’t think I’d give everything away did you? Here now the challenge— 1. How many Empire State Buildings tall is the tallest mountain on Earth (Jordi’s original question)? Hint: when is a mountain not just a mountain. And by the way, my 210 mile high (340 km) mountain pictured in THIS Post, a photo presumably taken from the space shuttle, WASN’T REAL (the power of Photoshop). The fact that it was located “south of the Land of Make-Believe” was supposed to be the clue. 2. You’re on a cruise ship in the Pacific, 1,700 miles south of Tokyo and 200 miles south west of Guam (get out your maps.) You’ve slipped the captain a big wad of bills to stop the ship so you can go swimming. The crew lowers the inflatable zodiac, you jump into the water, but realize you left your spiffy waterproof, gold-encrusted watch in the dingy. The captain’s only given you 30 minutes of frolic time. “Hey crew member guy, can you toss me my watch?” Oops … he did and you missed. You do a quick dive and …. almost catch up to it as it gently descends. But you needed to stop ’cause you felt you were going too deep. There goes your watch on its way to the bottom. But come on, how deep could it really go? You figure if you slip the captain another wad of bills he’ll send in a diver to fetch it. Does he? How far is the bottom? Hint: I want the answer using a (now) familiar ruler. 3. How many Empire State Buildings do you need to stack on top of one another to go from sea level to ‘outer space’? Hint: read my Post The Business Trip for a clue. Use a familiar ruler: There’s a good chance you’re not familiar with the Empire State Building, so you might choose to use a different ruler for the heights and depths we’re considering above. Here are some tall structures in other parts of the USA and around the world you might want to use instead— Statue of Liberty, New York City, USA: 305 ft (93 m) above ground level Washington Monument, Washington, DC, USA: 555 ft (169 m) Space Needle, Seattle, USA: 605 ft (184 m) Eiffel Tower, Paris, France: 1,063 ft (324 m) Tokyo Tower, Tokyo, Japan: 1,092 feet, (333 m) Kiev TV Tower, Kiev, Ukraine: 1,263 feet (385 m) Empire State Building, New York City, USA: 1,472 feet (449 m) Petronas Twin Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: 1,482 feet (452 m) Shanghai World Financial Center, Shanghai, China: 1,614 feet (492 m) Taipei 101, Taipei, Taiwan: 1,671 feet (509 m) Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower), tallest building in US, Chicago, USA: 1,730 feet (527 m) CN Tower, Toronto, Canada: 1,815 ft (553 m) Guangzhou TV and Sightseeing Tower, Guangzhou, China: 2,001 ft (610 m) KVLY-TV mast, Blanchard, USA: 2,063 feet (818 m) World’s tallest building—Burj Dubai (Dubai Tower) , Dubai, UAR: 2,684 feet (818 m) Photo credit: NASA Read More
Posted:2009-10-16 18:01:12 GMT
Voyage: A Scale Model Solar System for Your Community
This Earth Science Week's focus is on understanding climate. We are now 2 months out from the all important UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. It is a likely last opportunity for the world to come together on global warming in advance of the Kyoto Protocol expiration.
My Center is using Earth Science Week to ...kick off 2 months of climate education. Featured at Blog on the Universe are posts on Earth's environment and climate change that are great for the general public, and can also be used as lessons in the classroom.
Read them with a cup of coffee.
See: http://twttr.me/06ORead More
My Center is using Earth Science Week to ...kick off 2 months of climate education. Featured at Blog on the Universe are posts on Earth's environment and climate change that are great for the general public, and can also be used as lessons in the classroom.
Read them with a cup of coffee.
See: http://twttr.me/06ORead More
TMN QuickLinks: Five Powerful Climate Change Lessons for A Very Important Earth Science Week October
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Photo Caption: Earth from orbit. Click on the image and explore your world close-up using the scroll bars. The time to protect it is at hand. This is
Photo Caption: Earth from orbit. Click on the image and explore your world close-up using the scroll bars. The time to protect it is at hand. This is a Teachable Moments in the News QuickLinks Post. It connects a breaking news story or event with this Blog’s existing powerful library of Posts and Resource Pages. [...]
Posted:2009-10-11 04:05:45 GMT
We’re slamming this thing into the Moon?! Hasn’t anybody thought this through?! The Moon’s going to be forced from its orbit! The tides will wash around the Earth like a killer tsunami! Buildings will topple! The Man in the Moon will be mad at us! Do we really need another catastrophe?! An hour after I posted my TMN QuickLink on LCROSS, my good Twitter friend Heather Good at FoundonMars.com tells me there are [...]
Posted:2009-10-08 06:22:47 GMT
This is a Teachable Moments in the News QuickLink Post. It connects this Blog’s existing powerful library of Posts and Resource Pages with a breaking news story. The Posts and Pages are designed for use as lessons, allowing teachers to easily bring current science into the classroom as a teachable moment, and in a manner directly relevant to the earth, space science, and mathematics curriculum. [...]
Posted:2009-10-08 02:23:01 GMT
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