The adventure offers a directed and investigative approach to how land features look from space, what the colors mean in a Landsat image, and an introduction to identifying habitats in a false color Landsat image. Students go on to identify features in other satellite images using both images off the Web site and other textual resources. A unit follows on biodiversity covering topics such as food chains, food webs and the Nature Mapping program. The site is supported with a teacher's guide that includes lesson plans, classroom activities, and reproducibles. The units can also be utilized outside the program as supplemental activities within a required curriculum.
All materials are available free on the Web.
The pop-up book will be available from NASA CORE Spring 2000. There is a Soil Gallery, where you can see the Soil of the Month and read some soil stories in Once Upon a Sandy Loam. You can even sing some soil songs in Rock 'N Soil. You can also find out about some Secrets Hidden in the Soil. Some of these people have decided to share their stories at this web site.