Data-enhanced Investigations for Climate Change Education (DICE)

EDC is working with SRI International and NASA in the development and piloting of two interactive websites for high school classroom climate change investigations. These websites will allow high school teachers to assemble customized data sets about local climate change from NASA remotely-sensed Earth observation mission data archived in NASA’s Goddard Interactive Online Visualization and Analysis Infrastructure (Giovanni). The project involves adapting Giovanni data sets created for use by scientists to specifically gear them to the capacities of high school students and teachers. Four of the six pilot teachers participating in this project are currently implementing EDC’s Foundation Science: Earth Science (FSES) climate curriculum in their classrooms. EDC will revise the FSES climate unit to incorporate use of the NASA Giovanni data, and will work with the pilot teachers as the project websites are developed and tested.