Extensions and Enrichment

Adventure of Echo the Bat http://imagers.gsfc.nasa.gov/teachersite/introts.htm

Adventure of Echo the Bat is an interactive web site featuring an "Interactive Adventure and Educator's Guide," which combine to introduce students to remote sensing and biodiversity from a constructivist approach. The Educator's Guide contains classroom activities and lesson plans that provide a structure to integrate the interactive adventure into the classroom. The activities introduce concepts basic to the understanding of remote sensing including understanding light and the introduction to the electromagnetic spectrum. The Adventure engages students in exploring concepts of remote sensing and biodiversity. After completing the Adventure, these concepts are reinforced back in the classroom with hands-on activities provided in the Educator's Guide. This web site provides educators with a vehicle for introducing complex content that can be reinforced back in the classroom through the Remote Sensing and Biodiversity units.

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