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Teachers, don’t miss your chance to join us for a free virtual workshop on NOAA’s Science on a Sphere Data Lens activities.

Reminder: Only a couple more weeks left to register for the Data Lens: Exploring Earth’s Visual Stories (NOAA SOS) Workshop.

Teachers, don’t miss your chance to join us for a free virtual workshop on NOAA’s Science on a Sphere Data Lens activities.

📅 Date: January 29, 2025
⏰ Time: 4:00–5:00 PM MT
📍 Location: Virtual
🔗 Register here: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/6221411067973448792

We are excited to launch a new data literacy campaign for 5-12th grade science teachers - Data Lens: Exploring Earth’s Visual Stories

Click the link at the bottom of the newsletter to join and receive these dynamic 10-20 minute activity aimed at engaging your students frequently in slow, thoughtful observation. These activities encourage critical thinking while gradually building data literacy skills, one step at a time.

Delivered straight to your inbox every other week, these consistent activities are easy to implement and keep students engaged with new maps and extensions—while reinforcing observation and interpretation skills that are essential for understanding complex data.

Critical thinking & Data literacy practice from NOAA Email from CIRES Center for Education, Engagement, and Evaluation Give Week 1 a try! Data Lens offers Earth data in your classroom for building visual and data literacy skills with NOAA data, VTS, and

🌍 NOAA has updated the Climate Literacy Essential Principles guide to help us better understand and address climate change! 🌍

🌱 Both Science On a Sphere® (SOS) and SOS Explorer® are excellent tools for teaching these essential principles in the classroom or beyond.

🔍 For example, Principle 7 explores the critical role of climate models in predicting our future. In the SOS Catalog, you'll find updated Climate Models that illustrate three potential scenarios:

- Sustainable Development
- Middle of the Road
- Fossil-fueled Development

These models show how our choices today—especially efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions—can shape future temperature, precipitation, and ice coverage trends.

📊 Explore these models to understand the impact of our actions on the planet's future!

https://www.climate.gov/teaching/climate/climate-literacy-essential-principles

https://sos.noaa.gov/catalog/datasets/?fullText=climate%20model%20-%20S
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Dataset Catalog - Science On a Sphere The Science On a Sphere® Dataset Catalog is comprised of datasets from NOAA, NASA, universities, science centers and other organizations. Each dataset entry includes a description of the dataset, a picture, a video, notable features, relevant links, and source information.

Hello science enthusiasts and educators! Real-time data animations are what make both Science On a Sphere and our free downloadable application, SOS Explorer (SOSx), amazing/different/compelling/surprising!

In this video, we explain how to get real-time animations of data (and keep them up to date!) on the Windows version of SOSx.

Head to https://sos.noaa.gov/sos-explorer/ to learn more about downloading and joining our Educator email list.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RFanhIoFeg

How to use Real-time data in NOAA's SOS Explorer With our amazing real-time data in SOS Explorer, you can experience up to date NOAA and NASA satellite and other data. This video details how to use the SOS...