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Remote Sensing

Second segment of NASA Connect Hidden Treasures defines remote sensing and explains how researchers use satellites to observe the Earth from space. This segment defines the electromagnetic spectrum and explains how satellites use different sensors to measure the invisible light reflected from Earth's surface. This segment also explores the definition of Geographic Information Systems or GIS.

Grades 6-8
Science
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Jamestown

First segment of NASA Connect Hidden Treasures giving examples of how remote sensing is used. The end of the first segment asks student to define remote sensing and use it to describe objects across the room.

Grades 3-5
Science | History-Social Science
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Archaeologists

Fourth segment of NASA Connect Hidden Treasures explaining what archaeologists do. This segment covers how archaeologists reconstructed the historic environments of the Mayan and their agriculture practices. Archaeologists try to use the information from the past farming practice of the Mayan to save the rain forests.

Grades 6-8
Science | History-Social Science
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