Voyage
to
Mars
Resources
Credits
Extreme Travel Adventure Challenge
Resources
You can use Internet search engines such as Google to find all sorts information about your Extreme Travel Adventure Challenge. Nonetheless, the following resources will be most useful in meeting your needs for information:
Geographical Study:
Topographic Maps: A site for dealing with latitude and longitude considerations: http://www.topozone.com/. To see how this works, click on "View Maps" at the top of the page. From this page you can either enter the name of a location, or the latitude and longitude (decimal degrees) of your Extreme Travel Adventure Challenge destination.
Google Earth is a powerful computer program that can be downloaded from the WWW free of charge. Once the beginning and ending points of travel are identified, students can get an up-close look at the entire path of travel. Powerful satellite images of the Earth provide views from on high using an "eye in the sky."
http://nationalatlas.gov/ is an online atlas. This is perhaps the single best Federal source for national maps and geographic information on the Web. The people and places of the United States are here. Contains information about geology and water.
Latitude/Longitude Distance Calculation: A site for calculating horizontal travel distance between the beginning and end points of the mission. Remember, this is a straight-line distance. Your travel route might go up and down over hills and from side to side over mountains or lakes and might be much longer than this calculation shows.
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~cvm/latlongdist.html Input starting and ending latitudes and follow up each with either N (for north) or S (for south); input starting and ending longitudes as positive values and follow up with either E (for east) or W (for west). A point in the United States will have a north latitude (N) and a west longitude (W). For instance, Bloomington, Illinois is located at approximately 40.482N and 88.9936W.
Weather Study:
http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/USclimate/USclimdivs.html Visit the United States Climate Division Dataset Mapping Page to generate climatological maps for towns or the whole nation. Easily create maps showing average temperatures and average precipitation.
http://nationalatlas.gov/ is an online atlas. This is perhaps the single best Federal source for national maps and geographic information on the Web. Contains information about climate and weather.
Plant & Animal Study:
There are a number of free online encyclopedias that can be used to obtain general information about various geographic sites within the United States. Check out any of the following for general information; use Google.com or another search engine to find more specific information about the Extreme Travel Adventure Challenge area as needed:
http://encarta.msn.com/artcenter_/browse.html MSN Encarta-Encyclopedia Article Center
http://www.britannica.com/ Encyclopedia Britannica
Online
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikipedia: “The Free Encyclopedia”
http://nationalatlas.gov/ is an online atlas.
This is perhaps the single best Federal source
for national
maps
and geographic
information
on
the Web. Contains information about biology of diverse
areas.
 |
Support for program number HST-ED-90285.01-A was provided by NASA through a grant from the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Incorporated, under NASA contract NAS5-26555. Copyright (c) 2007 Challenger Learning Center at Prairie Aviation Museum and Challenger Learning Center of Northwest Indiana. Staff of Challenger Learning Centers and instructors of classes involved with Challenger Learning Center missions may reproduce this WebQuest guide for classroom and educational purposes. Otherwise this work may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transcribed, in any form or by means – electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise – without the prior written permission of the copyright owners. This page is based upon the WebQuest model. |