US Government Data for the Classroom

General

• www.data.gov

State of the Planet

• Weather Data for the United States

• Ocean Temperatures and currents:  HTML,  Google Earth 

• Track a Drifter Buoy (click here for an example in Google Earth)

• Cryosphere Today – National Snow Ice Data Center\

• Earthquakes for the Last 7 Days – USGS:  HTML, Google Earth

• Active Volcano Database:  HTML, Google Earth

• Stream Flow from USGS:  or check out this Example Station from the Hudson River

• National Atlas (GIS)

  Volcanic and Geological Resources from onlinecollegeclasses.com

• NASA Projects

• Human Space Flight

• Nasa TV

• Mars Rover Example

• Census/Demographics

  Forrestry Service Data

• Expanding Wildfires Animation in Google Earth\

• Current Wildfires:  HTML, Google Earth

    Climate

• IPCC Report and Climate Data

• NASA's Goodard Insistute for Space Studies Graph Creation Tools.  Click the links on the right side of the screen for more.

• Multigraph site from NOAA

• NOAA's Digital Coast or check this private simulation where you can go beyond the 3 meter rise predicted by the UN Climate Panel (IPCC).

• NASA's Key Cimate Indicators Site

• Cryosphere Today – National Snow Ice Data Center

Projects To Participate In

• Hunt for Asteroids

• SETI - The Search For Extra Terrestrial Intellegence

• Planet Hunters

• NOAA's Teacher At Sea Program: This exceptional program takes intersted teachers aboard NOAA research vessles for an experience that is second to none.

• PolarTREC:  Join scientists and teachers as they travel to the polls.  You can become a PolarTREC teacher as well.  

• Puffin Project

• The Teacher In Space Program:   NOTE:  This is not a NASA program.  This program will use private money to send teachyers on commercial space flights when they become available.

• NASA's Airborne Research Experience for Educators Project

• Adopt a Drifter:  This program from NOAA is exceptional

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