Presentations and Handouts
Teaching Calculus with NASA via PBL Techniques
PPT Presentation given by Ing. Gloria Elena Faus Landeros
My NASA Data Animations
- Aerosol Loop 2009 (PPT)
- Precipitation Animation (PPT)
- Sun (PPT)
My NASA Data Handouts
- NASA Facts: Aerosols (PDF)
- An Illustrated Guide to Creating Virtual Field Trips utilizing free Google services (PDF)
- iPod Nano User Guide - Spansih (PDF)
- iPod Nano User Guide - English (PDF)
- iPod Nano User Guide - French (PDF)
- Reunion Island Data (XLS)
- Solar Energy Availability Around the Country (PDF)
- NASA LaRC Virtual Tour (KMZ)
My NASA Data Presentations
- My NASA Data Overview (PDF)
- My NASA Data Lesson: Tropical Atlantic Aerosols (PDF)
- My NASA Data Lesson: Solar Cell Availability from around the
Country (PDF) - My NASA Data Lesson: Creating Your Own My NASA Data Lesson (PDF)
Resources
Google Earth
Download Google Earth
Explore Google Earth on the Web with Earth View in Google Maps
WeatherWise
also known as just WXWISE
http://itg1.meteor.wisc.edu/wxwise/
NOAA Visualization Site
http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/
Livebinders - a way for participants to have access to all the pages
http://livebinders.com/create/bookmark?type=bookmark
Science Modules
This website allows teachers to design their own projects and collaborate with other teachers.
http://wise.berkeley.edu/
GeoMapApp
This is a great ocean application.
http://www.geomapapp.org/
Virtual Ocean
This add on is a great source of visualization of the world's oceans. You need to install world wind first.
http://www.virtualocean.org
Embedding YouTube Videos in PPTs
Learn how to download YouTube videos to use in your PPTs. A great teaching tool.
For directions go to: http://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/howto_dnload_Utube_videos.html
Links for Photometers
General Information and several useful links
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~brooksdr/DRB_web_page/Aerosols/Aerosols_home_page.htm
Blue Sky
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~brooksdr/DRB_web_page/Aerosols/sky_colors.htm
Sun Distance, Air Mass Calculation and Solar Elevation Angle (from the ground up not Zenith down)
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~brooksdr/DRB_web_page/Aerosols/sol_calc.htm
Pressure Conversion
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~brooksdr/DRB_web_page/Aerosols/sol_calc.htm
Time Conversion and other neat information!
http://www.uprm.edu/bio-optics/weather.html - We will need this one
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ - broad set of information
http://www.accuweather.com/us/pr/lajas/00667/city-weather-forecast.asp - predicted weather
AERONET – FOR DATA ACCESS
http://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/bamgomas_maps_index
a specific link to our place…
http://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/type_one_station_opera_v2_new?site=La_Parguera&nachal=0&level=2&
year=18&month=5&day=17&aero_water=0&if_day=0&if_err=0&year_or_month=0
Dust vs. Pollution from Africa
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=44348
Links to Aerosol Sites
http://www.cs.drexel.edu/~dbrooks/globe/aerosol_links.htm
