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Kristine Goldhawk

Best Sites to Find Public Domain Images and Sounds for Student Projects | audio public-... - 0 views

  • Library of Congress Photo Archives
  • NOAA Public Image Library
  • NOAA Public Image Library
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  • Library of Congress Photo Archives is a site every teacher should bookmark.  With over 1.2 millions images in this database, your students can certainly gather a wide variety of images for their history projects.  Each image has different licensing, so look closely.  Supporting units: famous Americans, presidents, civil rights, wars, inventors, authors, and just about any historical American event
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    Find public domain images and sounds for projects. Some lesson plans included in the links.
Catherine Curtis

Google Image Result for http://www.srh.noaa.gov/abq/feature/FlashFloodDetection/Images/... - 0 views

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    Image of Navajo Lake in New Mexico
Bob Rowan

Twitter Reacts To Massive Quake, Tsunami In Japan - 25 views

  • Twitter users shared the tsunami’s estimated times of arrival on U.S. shores — before an official government tsunami warning
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    worth noting for volume of Twitter posts following 2011 tsunami in Japan, use of Twitter following phone outages, and sharing expected arrival time of waves in US before official government announcements
ekbrabant

Here's What We Can Expect From El Niño This Year | TIME - 19 views

  • forecasters have little ability to predict how intense future El Niño episodes will be. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) it is also near impossible to pinpoint the exact dates that El Niño will begin.
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      Some atmospheric phenomena can be predicted and some cannot.
  • Within the next month more details regarding El Niño and when it will begin will become clearer.
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      As more data is collected more patterns may be apparent, and hypotheses can be supported.
  • 90% chance of striking again this year
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      I wonder how scientists have come to this claim...
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  • Western Pacific and parts of Australia
  • Australia
  • damages the agricultural industries in countries surrounding the Pacific Ocean such as Indonesia, and the Philippines.
  • The results of the El Niño events in 1997-1998 were by far the worst in recent history,
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      I wonder what happened. I wonder what the effects were.
  • South Asia will likely be hit first with heavy rain and flooding.
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      El Nino seems to cause a lot of problems. I wonder what caused scientists to think that all of these were related to El Nino.
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