NESDIS education strives to provide educational material for teachers nationwide. Our goal is to help students understand the science behind satellite data and its impact on our world. Use the engaging educational resources, games, simulations, and videos below to help inspire the next generation of scientists.
Educational Resources Directory
In 2014, nearly the entire state of California was experiencing extreme drought or worse, exceptional drought. It was very dry. Exactly how bad was the California drought? Scientists found that it was the worst drought in 1,200 years.
Satellites don’t fall from the sky because they are orbiting Earth. Even when satellites are thousands of miles away, Earth’s gravity still tugs on them.
Here are some suggestions for projects to test a hypothesis. We give one possible hypothesis for each project, but many others are also possible. After stating your hypothesis, design and carry out an experiment to test it.
Is science just another school subject, like math and English? Or, is it a bunch of information about the parts of a living cell and the temperatures at which water freezes or boils?
Some science fair projects are experiments to test a hypothesis. Others attempt to answer a question, demonstrate how nature works, or even invent a technology to measure something.
