Educational Resources (K-12)
A Collection of Solid Waste
Resources, (CD-ROM)
EP 1.104:C 68/CD/yr
Publications on climate change and waste, composting,
hazardous waste management,
household hazardous waste, tribal waste management,
landfills, recycling, municipal solid waste
management. Includes games and activities for children and
information in Spanish. Annual
editions.
A Topographic Field Trip of Washington, D.C., 1997,
(CD-ROM)
I 19.2:W 27/CD
Multimedia educational CD-ROM to teach teach topographic map
reading skills.
The Adventure of Echo The Bat, An Adventure in Remote Sensing, Grades 5-8, etc., 2003, (CD-ROM)
NAS 1.86:EC 4/CD
http://imagers.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Exploring the Extreme Universe!,
(CD-ROM)
NAS 1.86:UN 3/2/CD/yr
Interactive multimedia.
Imagine The Universe! StarChild,
(CD-ROM)
NAS 1.86:UN 3/yr/CD
Annual captures of the Imagine the Universe! Multimedia
designed for students 14 and up.
Website. Current website:
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Let's Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle, April 2000,
(CD-ROM)
EP 1.104:R 31/2
Games, activities, publications and resources for students
and teachers.
Magnetospheric Constellation, (CORRECTION),
(CD-ROM)
NAS 1.86:M 27/CD/CORR
A multimedia educational presentation on the sun and its
effects on the earth, including
components for elementary, middle, and high schools with
corresponding teachers' guides.
Making Sun-Earth Connections, (CD-ROM)
NAS 1.86:SU 7/2/CD
A multimedia educational presentation on the sun and its
effects on the earth, including
components for elementary, middle, and high schools with
corresponding teachers' guides.
http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS9651
Pedestrian, Bicycle & School Bus Safety,
Seguridad para peatones, ciclistas y autobuses escolares, February 2001, (CD-ROM)
TD 8.64:P 34/SPAN./ENG
Audio CD. In Spanish only
SIR-C Education Program, Pre-Launch CD-ROM, vol
ID
NAS 1.86:ED 8/CD
Educational program for middle and high schools to teach
scientific and technological skills
through interaction with radar images of the earth. Includes
teacher's guide, lesson plans,
presentation materials, radar images, photos, maps and
software for image display.
SORCE, Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment, Interactive CD-ROM
NAS 1.86:S 04/CD
The Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) is a NASA-sponsored satellite mission that will provide state-of-the-art measurements of incoming x-ray, ultraviolet, visible, near-infared, and total solar radiation. Multimedia. Includes sections on mission, history, science, technical, launch, animation and videos. Also includes materials aimed at students including cut-out paper models. Project website.
http://lasp.colorado.edu/sorce/
Techno Agent, 1997, (CD-ROM)
NAS 1.86:T 22/CD
Mac only. Multimedia.
Terra: the EOS flagship, (CD-ROM)
NAS 1.86:T 27/yr/CD
Visual images representing the development of the TERRA
spacecraft and its mission. Mission
website:
http://eos-am.gsfc.nasa.gov/
The Asian Monsoon and Data Assimilation, NASA,
Goddard Space Flight Center,
(CD-ROM)
NAS 1.86:M 75/CD
Contains teacher, student and resource guides for middle and
high school students and a data
visualizer with 4000 data graphs. Includes multimedia
presentations at four levels of complexity
from a brief overview to scientific papers by NASA
scientists. Includes 4000 charts of temperature,
precipitation and wind for Seoul, Bombay, Calcutta, Seattle,
Washington, DC, and London for
1985-1989. Also includes ASCII temperature and precipitation
data for Bombay (1878-1989),
Calcutta (1931-1989), London (1841-1989), LA, (1877-1977,
1987-1989), Seoul (1905-1989),
washington, DC (1824-1842, 1846-1848, 1854-1859, 1862-1989).
Similar and more data sets
available in publication World Monthly Surface Station
Climatology or NASA GEDEX CD-ROM.
The Dynamic Sun, (CD-ROM)
NAS 1.86:SU 7/yr/CD
A multimedia educational presentation on the sun and its
effects on the earth, including
components for elementary, middle, and high schools with
corresponding teachers' guides. Most
images are from SOHO, the Solar and Helispheric
Observatory.
The Traffic Safety Box, January 2001,
(CD-ROM)
TD 8.64:T 67
The program is intended to build awareness and educate youth
on traffic safety issues. It provides
students with an opportunity to interact and learn about
highway safety through a series of
interactive exercises. Topics covered include alcohol,
occupant protection, speeding, and zero
tolerance.
Viewing The Violent Universe (CD-ROM)
NAS 1.86:UN 3/3/CD
Contains computer-viewable version of a 5-minute video on
the launch and early achievements of
the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory.
Visit to an Ocean Planet, Version 1.1,
TOPEX/POSEIDON, An Educational, 1998 (CD-ROM)
NAS 1.86:OC 2/CD
Educational multimedia CD-ROM designed for middle and high
school curricula as well as the
general public based on results for the TOPEX/Poseidon
satellite launched by NASA and CNES to
measure oceans. Related website includes classroom guide and
additional materials.
http://topex-www.jpl.nasa.gov/education/cdrom.html
Welcome to NASA's Earth Science Enterprise,
Educational CD-ROM, (CD-ROM)
NAS 1.86:EA 7/3/yr/CD
Interactive multimedia educational CD-ROM. "NASA's
Earth Science Enterprise is dedicated to
understanding the total Earth system and the effects of
natural and human-induced changes on the
global environment. The vantage point of space provides
information about Earth's land,
atmosphere, ice, oceans, and biota that is obtainable in no
other way. Programs of the Enterprise
study the interactions among these components to advance the
new discipline of Earth System
Science, with a near-term emphasis on global climate
change." Program website has additional
materials.
http://www.earth.nasa.gov/
Welcome to the Planets: Educational CD-ROM, Version
1
NAS 1.86:P 69
Includes selected images acquired over approximately 20
years of NASA planetary exploration.
Each image is accompanied by information about Solar System
bodies and various spacecraft that
explored them. CD-ROM includes narration, images and data.
Website has additional materials
matching Version 1.5 of Welcome to the Planets.
http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/welcome.htm