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Making the most of the filterable categories.
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- “Audience” filters by grade level, including postsecondary education, and also has a filter option for adult learners.
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Exploring activities, lessons, and units.
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Understanding instructional strategies.
Within special categories, there is an expandable filter called “instructional strategies.” This includes special filters that are applicable for some lessons, activities, and units, including things like “outdoor education” and “uses data.”
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- PS4: Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer (2)
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- Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory El Niño theme page (1)
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- Sanctuaries resource collection: Coral reef ecosystems (1)
- Sanctuaries resource collection: Whales (1)
- Satellite meteorology learning modules (2)
- SciJinks (10)
- Severe weather 101 (1)
- Solar physics and terrestrial effects curriculum guide (1)
- Storm surge videos and brochures (1)
- UCAR teaching boxes (1)
- Underwater robot education theme (1)
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How does a satellite stay up in space without falling back to Earth? How is a weather satellite able to take pictures or measure surface temperatures from space? How does a satellite communicate with Earth? Learn with this booklet!
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Despite its importance, the majority of our ocean is largely unknown. However, through exploration, we're learning more about its biological, chemical, physical, geological, and archaeological aspects. Exploration leads to discovery, but before we can truly explore, we must map. Learn more about how we explore the ocean and how we estimate what is left to explore!
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Each year, numerous whales and other marine animals are entangled in fishing gear. Because it often wraps around these creatures -- and unlike us, marine creatures lack opposable thumbs to free themselves -- this debris can hurt or even kill whales, turtles, and other animals through starvation, strangulation and drowning. NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries and our partners work hard to disentangle these creatures and set them free.
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Space weather impacts radio communication in a number of ways.
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Stay safe with rip current awareness.
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Meteorologists at the National Weather Service use information from ground stations and weather satellites to make forecast maps. What exactly do the symbols on a weather map tell you about the weather? Use our handy dandy guide to find out!
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This page from the NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic Meteorological Laboratory answers various questions regarding hurricanes, typhoons, and tropical cyclones including information on history, hurricane formation, hurricane forecasting and preparedness, Hurricane hunters, climatology, records, and more. While it is not intended to be a technical guide, references are given throughout the FAQ for those that would like additional, detailed information. Hopefully, this FAQ can help answer some of your questions about the characteristics of these catastrophic storms, how they are monitored and forecast, and what research is being carried out on them today. There is also an extensive history of hurricanes that provides information on hurricane records as far back as we have been able to record.
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The National Weather Service hurricane safety page includes information on general safety, watches and warnings, how to plan for a hurricane, and what to do during and after a hurricane.
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Hurricanes are powerful storms that bring life-threatening hazards to people living in both coastal and inland communities. Though you may first think of wind when envisioning a hurricane, water hazards are historically the most deadly. This explainer reviews the three major hazards of hurricanes — storm surge, heavy rainfall, and strong wind — and give you actions you can take before, during, and after tropical weather to protect your life and property.
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This website, with input from a NOAA advisory panel, includes information on hurricanes, history, and society.