NASA Snowpit Protocol

Snow pit protocol from NASA's Student Observation Network

Types of Instruction: 

  • Fieldwork

Grades: 

  • 9+

Subjects: 

  • Earth Science

Topics: 

  • Earth's Systems, Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems, Matter and Energy in Organisms and Ecosystems, Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information, Planning and carrying out investigations, Stability and Change of Systems, Structures and Properties of Matter, Weather and Climate

Skills: 

  • collecting data, experimental design, following protocols, map reading, measuring, observing, sampling
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