Nasa's Immersive Earth: Earth Science Stories for Planetariums

NASA's Immersive Earth Program tells Earth Science stories in a classroom and planetarium. Immersive Earth is a gateway for students to access visual representations of changes to Earth, using data to draw conclusions about factors that influence a changing world. The program was developed by middle school teachers and planetariums, using NASA's Earth Observations (NEO) data and other NASA satellite data to tell Earth Science Stories, including the story of the Earth's energy budget, of chemical weather, of the water cycle, of climate change, and of the carbon cycle. Students are encouraged to draw conclusions from the provided data about their changing world, applying it to information collected in their own backyard. Viewing the data in an interactive planetarium setting allows them to be immersed in Earth science, in a setting typically associated with space. The planetarium story kit allows them to understand how changes they can observe on their own, can be observed at different scales using satellite data which then allows them to see how this information relates to a larger system.