Education

The World Wind Education Page is intended to be a source of information and ideas of using NASA World Wind in the K-12 or University classroom. This page will contain links to Curriculum that Uses World Wind, Tips and ideas of how to use World Wind in the classroom and World Wind resources that are particularly suited for the educational setting. The World Wind Walkthrough Tutorial will give you a brief introduction to the program and it capabilities.

Geology
World Wind Classroom Labs
 * A Planatary Comparison. Grade Level-  High School- College.  Subject- Planatary Geology, Landforms, Tutorial for World Wind
 * Discovering Plate Boundaries. Grade Level-  High School- College.  Subject- Plate Tectonics, Ocean Floor, Earthquakes, Geomorphology
 * Volcano Scavenger Hunt. Grade Level-  High School- College.  Subject- Volcanology
 * Evolution of a Hot Spot Volcano. Grade Level-  High School- College.  Subject- Volcanology, Plate Tectonics
 * Mass Wasting Events. Grade Level-  High School- College.  Subject- Mass Wasting, Landslides, Mudflows
 * River Profile: Brahmaputra River. Grade Level-  High School- College.  Subject- Fluvial Geomorphology, River Gradients, Erosional and Depositional Environments, Tectonics

 SF State- Geography of Landforms 
 * Volcanic Landform. Grade Level-  College.  Subject- Geomorphology, Volcanology
 * Fluvial Landforms. Grade Level-  College.  Subject- Geomorphology, Fluvial
 * Coastal Landforms. Grade Level-  College.  Subject- Geomorphology, Coastal, Dunes
 * Structure, Karst and Glacial Landforms. Grade Level-  College.  Subject- Geomorphology, Tectonics, Karst, Glacial

Math
PA View Labs
 * Right Triangle Trigonometry in NASA World Wind. Grade Level-  High School  Subject- Trigonometry, Geometry
 * NASA World Wind – Calculating the Area of Prime Real Estate – Geometry. Grade Level-  High School  Subject- Geometry
 * Slope Investigations Using World Wind (no title given). Grade Level-  8-9  Subject- Algebra, Slope

Add Ons

 * Add-Ons for Education.

WMS

 * GLOBE Program page

World Wind Power Point Presentations

 * Introduction to World Wind. Presentation from Earth is Square.  used with 5th graders to introduce World Wind.
 * Using World Wind. Presentation from Earth is Square. designed as a handout for students to show the most common functions of World Wind.
 * NASA World Wind. Presentation from World Wind Classroom designed for faculty inservice or introduction.  Note that presentation is old (based on WW 1.2) and very large (2 MB)