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Students study many aspects of earth and often with mutli-subject educational objectives. Jump start here: Earth Studies   Earth Day   Water Cycle   Iceberg Studies

NASA Earth Observatory - Earth studies includes these features:

Dwindling Arctic Ice, Since the 1970s, Arctic sea ice has been melting at the rate of 9 percent per decade. NASA researcher Josefino Comiso points to an accelerating warming trend as a primary cause and discusses how global climate change may be influencing the shrinking Arctic ice cap.

Drought Lowers Lake Mead, In the space of just three years, water levels in Lake Mead have fallen more than sixty feet due to sustained drought. Landsat images show the extent of the change to the lake's shoreline.

Watching the World Go By, Space Station Science Officer Ed Lu describes what it is like to look at the Earth over the course of an orbit. His descriptions are accompanied by digital photographs of Earth he has taken and transmitted to the ground during his mission.

DAAC Study- Denali's Fault. During the afternoon of November 3, 2002, the water in Seattle’s Lake Union suddenly began sloshing hard enough to knock houseboats off their moorings. Water in pools, ponds, and bayous as far away as Texas and Louisiana splashed for nearly half an hour. The cause? Alaska’s Denali Fault was on the move, jostling the state with a magnitude 7.9 earthquake.

High Water  (New, April, 2005) For more than a decade, geologist Bob Brakenridge has been pioneering the use of satellite data for monitoring floods.
High Water- Building A Global Flood Atlas
Teleconnections
Hurdles and Milestones
Dartmouth Flood Observatory
Terra Turns Five  Stealing Rain from the Rainforest  oceans  land 

Death Valley, CA  Satellite shot of Death Valley     Death Valley National Park

Natural Hazards main page

Earth Observatory main page

NG - National Geographic  Strange Days on Planet Earth
for a show summary look here 
for PBS schedule look here
for Educators look here

PBS Earth Studies link - select the subject on the left pane, then select the grade then select the topic. Also look at this index set up for April 2005 as the active month. Also look at this link http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/thismonth/index2.shtm  and this one http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/thismonth/index3.shtm

Mercury Spills Raise School Safety Concerns 

Earth Day 2005 - April 22

1. Earthday.net  Ecological Foot Print
2. Canada Activities   
3. Resource Conservation Manitoba 

EduGreen web site - a variety of activities including sending an environmental card.
Earth Day links may2003  apr2003   may2004   index-2005 

United Nations environmental program UNEP includes explore  and   play  challenge games like  Word search    Memory games

Grade 7 Social Studies
The Water Cycle - NASA special 'elibrary' section with the following topics:

  Iceberg  B-15A 

From Earth Observatory, look at the image dates for a top view of a unique earth study  and the powerful forces of the living frozen earth.
Apr 20, 2005  Apr 18, 2005  Jan 31, 2005  Jan 14, 2005  Dec 14, 2004 

Additional Information

Institute for Computational Earth System Science K-12 outreach initiative towards local and regional schools