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Searching for terms that contain more than one word.
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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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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.”
- Climate (275)
- Freshwater (164)
- Marine life
(481)
- Adaptations (11)
- Aquatic food webs (58)
- Coral reef ecosystems (85)
- Conservation (31)
- Ecosystems (116)
- Endangered species (20)
- Entanglement (17)
- Fish (99)
- Fisheries and seafood (111)
- Invasive marine species (9)
- Invertebrates (90)
- Life in an estuary (36)
- Marine mammals (135)
- Plankton (15)
- Salmon (23)
- Sea turtles (64)
- Seabirds (31)
- Seaweed, algae, and aquatic plants (24)
- Sharks, rays, and skates (39)
- NOAA careers (28)
- Ocean and coasts
(665)
- Earth processes (16)
- Harmful algal blooms (19)
- Maritime archaeology and history (35)
- Ocean acidification (66)
- Ocean chemistry (16)
- Ocean currents (95)
- Ocean exploration (81)
- Ocean floor features (84)
- Ocean pollution and marine debris (176)
- Ocean sounds (15)
- Oil spills (58)
- Rip currents (22)
- Sea level rise (41)
- Tides (59)
- Tsunamis (56)
- Space (50)
- Technology and engineering (288)
- Weather and atmosphere (326)
- CLEAN climate and energy education resource collection (1)
- Do you NOAA? (1)
- Faces of the National Weather Service (1)
- GOES-R infographics (1)
- GOES-R satellite video collection (1)
- National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) (1)
- National Weather Service (1)
- NOAA Boulder Labs: Meet our team (1)
- NOAA Boulder scientists explain science (1)
- NOAA Boulder Virtual 8th Grade Science Days (1)
- NOAA Live! 4 Kids (1)
- Ocean Today (1)
- Science On a Sphere catalog (1)
- SciJinks (2)
- Solar physics and terrestrial effects curriculum guide (5)
- Space weather videos (1)
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Frequently asked questions answered by the Space Weather Prediction Center.
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Different types of space weather can affect different technologies at Earth.
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A two sided poster and printable booklet on space weather.
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This website from the Space Weather Prediction Center shares space weather information and resources for a broad audience.
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An overview of the different types of phenomena that are a result of space weather.
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Real-time and historic space weather data and background information on space weather.
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Watch videos from the Space Weather Prediction Center on what space weather is, what its impacts are, and how NOAA monitors it.
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Eruptions from the Sun’s surface can cause space weather storms that affect technology here on Earth.
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A classic matching memory game using images of the Sun, the science of space weather, Earth's magnetosphere, and the upper atmosphere. After matching an image correctly, you can learn more about what is in the image.
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This x-ray movie of the sun, produced by Dr. Steven Hill of NOAA’s Space Environment Center, is from October 19, 2003 through November 4, 2003. The data for it is from GOES Solar X-Ray Imager, SXI, which is an instrument attached to the GOES 12 satellite. The Space Environment Center receives a stream of the data which it then uses to make space weather alerts and forecast services. The SXI collects one image per minute and varies the exposure settings to allow for three different views to see coronal structures, active regions and solar flares.