NASA's Vital Signs library of satellite images showcases landscape changes over time due to a variety of factors such as floods, hurricanes, landslides, droughts, melting glaciers, etc.
Before and after images can be viewed as a curtain/slide, toggle, or side-by-side. The images can be downloaded.
Teaching Tips
Positives
Students can see how natural disasters and extreme weather events change the landscape.
The text provides context for the images.
There are over 200 pairs of images.
Additional Prerequisites
In order to see all of the images available, click on the four squares next to the main menu, at the top right.
To view the text, click on the blue arrow next to the title.
Differentiation
This resource could be useful as a source of images for school projects, art classes, or classroom presentations.
This resource shows before and after images from around the globe. It is important to note that some of these after images are the result of climate change, while others are not. This resource is recommended for teaching.
Standards
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Science
ESS3: Earth and Human Activity
MS-ESS3-2. Analyze and interpret data on natural hazards to forecast future catastrophic events and inform the development of technologies to mitigate their effects.
