SciJinks
"SciJinks" (http://scijinks.nasa.gov) is a new, highly interactive web site that provides middle-school students and audiences of all ages an amazing science education opportunity. Provided by NOAA and NASA, the web site transports visitors to the wild world of weather to learn about predicting global weather patterns.
SciJinks "Weather Laboratory" introduces the fundamentals of weather phenomena and the agencies' efforts to monitor earth's environment, atmosphere and climate. SciJinks will eventually add other topics related to technology, space and Earth sciences. For now, come visit SciJinks and find out more about our planet's weird and stormy weather:
Weather Fun: Take the Weather Challenge, watch the GOES Movieplex, run the Bad Weather Joke Machine. These and other highly interactive activities are provided to guests in Weather Fun to challenge their "Weather IQ" and learn exciting facts about Earth's environment and atmosphere.
Weather & People: How does weather affect you? Do you know how to be prepared for destructive events caused by weather? What is weather folklore? In Weather & People, visitors can learn how to prepare themselves and their families for weather related emergencies. Also, learn how people from various parts of the world interpreted weather phenomena in the World of Weather Folklore.
Weather Projects: What is science anyway? What is the process usually described as "scientific method"? How do I go about doing a science fair project? These and other interesting questions provide a forum for young scientists to learn about the scientific process. Weather Projects also provides several exciting examples of possible weather-related projects aspiring meteorologists could consider for their next science assignment.
Weather Technology: Have you wondered how weather satellites monitor a specific location on earth? Or how other satellites are used to map earth's surface on a regular basis? In Weather Technology, visitors can learn the difference between GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) and POES (Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites) and how NOAA/NASA utilize the satellites to predict changes in the Earth's environment, and conserve and manage the nation's coastal and marine resources.
These activities and many others are now available for visitors to explore and improve their knowledge of weather.
New Jersey Aviation Association
1 Airport Road, Morristown, NJ 07960-4651
Phone: 973 734 9994 - Fax: 973 734 9995
