We want your feedback . Using Computers ETE students collect, analyze, generate, and transmit information through computers. They use email to communicate their findings to ETE students at other schools and to contact scientists for answers to questions.
Students also learn specialized software products and interpret remotely-sensed images.
Students use computers to search the Internet for information that will help them to develop satisfactory solutions to the problems they are trying to solve. The modules encourage students to think, to solve problems, and to write and speak clearly. And as in real-life situations, the goal is not necessarily in answering questions correctly, but in asking them. To learn more about using PBL and cooperative learning, there are useful tips in the Teacher Pages. Analyzing Remote Sensing Imagery NASA and associated agencies hold terabytes of remote sensing data in databases that can be effectively used to support educational activities over the Internet.