Description:
The Adventure of Echo the Bat is a program with both online and classroom components. The first unit, Understanding Light, provides a foundation for remote sensing and introduces the electromagnetic spectrum. The unit on Remote Sensing includes the Adventure of Echo the Bat, which is an interactive Web site allowing students to follow Echo the Bat as he migrates through Arizona. The adventure offers a directed and investigative approach to how land features look from space, what the colors mean in a Landsat image, and an introduction to identifying habitats in a false color Landsat image. Students go on to identify features in other satellite images using both images off the Web site and other textual resources. A unit follows on biodiversity covering topics such as food chains, food webs and the Nature Mapping program. The site is supported with a teacher's guide that includes lesson plans, classroom activities, and reproducibles. The units can also be utilized outside the program as supplemental activities within a required curriculum. 

URL:
http://imagers.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Organization:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Contact:
Ms. Ginger Butcher, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Mail Stop 920, Greenbelt, MD 20771

Cost:
Free over the Internet

Education Level:
Grades 5-8

Subject:
Remote Sensing
Biology
Ecology
Natural Resources
Mapping
Geography
Environmental Science

Resource Type:
Internet Site
Classroom Activities/Experiments/Laboratories
Teachers' Guide
 
 

Date Added to teachearth.com:
5/1/00