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EarthViewer lets you see continents grow and shift as you scroll through billions of years. Additional layers let you and your students explore changes in atmospheric composition, temperature, biodiversity, day length, and solar luminosity over deep time

Here is chance for students to practice matching biomes to graphs. She was analyzing some temperature and precipitation graphs from different cities and trying to match them up to the correct biome where they would be located. Now she needs your help! Your mission is to help her determine in which biomes the cities are located.

Live and archived satellite weather, temperature, particulate, etc. data. Interactive global map.

The heat is on for the planet as a whole, but what has been happening where you live? Click on the map to find out, or enter a location in the search box at top right. The initial map shows average temperatures over the past 20 years; use the drop-down menu to see maps for earlier periods.

The Center for Educational Technologiessensing data to investigate the five indicators of global climate change-sea level, ice mass, global temperature, ozone, and atmospheric carbon dioxide. The updated Exploring the Environment global climate change modules will provide an authentic, problem-based context for students to explore climate science issues.

This interactive tool allows students and educators to build models that explain how the Earth system works and how it is affected by human activities and nonhuman phenomena.