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NASA Precipitation Education: Societal Applications
No full textDrinking water, agriculture, extreme weather survival, climate change resilience, and other essential aspects of life depend on the availability of water and understanding its movement around the globe. NASA's Societal Applications collection of detailed lesson plans and other resources is designed for learners to apply knowledge of precipitation and the water cycle to real-life problems. The curricula encourage students to use real data from NASA research for activities such as forecasting which regions of the world may experience a change in freshwater availability, creating a climatogram for a U.S. city, and designing a building that can withstand a hurricane. In the menu on the right side of the landing page, users can browse the materials by type, audience, age of learner, or subtopic (e.g., freshwater resources or world health). Or, users can scroll to the bottom of the landing page to browse featured resources
Air Pollution Solutions Lesson
No full textThis lesson plan from Breathe Utah and the STEM Action Center - Utah covers air pollution. The lesson is intended for 6th to 8th graders and includes the aligning Core Standards. During the lesson, "students will investigate possible solutions to air pollution in relation to per capita consumption of fossil fuels." The document includes the following sections: Standard/Objective, Lesson Performance Expectations, Materials, Teacher Background Information, Student Performance, and more. Three discussion questions are also included.&nbsp
Shiny
No full textShiny's developers describe it as "an R package that makes it easy to build interactive web apps straight from R." Users need not have web development experience, nor do they need to write HTML, CSS, or Javascript. Instead, users construct the analysis and visualizations they desire as fairly standard R code from which Shiny will generate an interactive web version. In the Gallery section of the Shiny site, users can locate a variety of data dashboards that were created with Shiny. The Get Started section provides links to a number of written and video tutorials that demonstrate how to install and use the system. The Deploy section of the site discusses options and requirements for hosting web applications that were created with Shiny. Being an R package, Shiny requires R to run. It can be installed from CRAN by running `install.packages("shiny")` at an R console